US Supreme Court Erodes Anti-Discrimination Laws
Click to expand Image A person protests outside the Supreme Court in anticipation of the decision in the case 303 Creative v. Elenis, in Washington, DC, June 30, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib...
View ArticleBahrain: Quash Religious Freedom Convictions
Click to expand Image Flag of Bahrain in Sakhir, March 2, 2023. © 2023 Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via AP Photo Last week, Jalal al-Qassab, 60, and Redha Rajab, 67, filed their third and final appeals...
View ArticleIran: New Charges Against Journalists
Click to expand Image Iranians protesting in Tehran, Iran, on October 1, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Middle East Images (Beirut) – Iranian authorities have brought vague “propaganda” and “national...
View ArticleAustralian Teen Locked in Solitary Confinement for 500 Days
Click to expand Image A prisoner lies in his solitary confinement cell in the safety unit at Lotus Glen Correctional Centre, northern Queensland. Prisoners in solitary confinement typically spend 22...
View ArticleCambodia: Past Vote Irregularities Foreshadow July Election
Click to expand Image A police officer drops his ballot at a polling station in Takhmau in Kandal province, southeast of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, June 5, 2022. © 2022 Heng Sinith/AP Photo (Bangkok) –...
View ArticleUK Turns its Back on Asylum Seekers with Disabilities
Click to expand Image Temporary accommodation for asylum seekers in Heathrow, England, February 2021. © 2021 Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images More than 50 asylum seekers, most of whom have...
View ArticleKyrgyz Woman Wins Strategic Gender Equality Case
Click to expand Image Women march to mark International Women's Day in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, March 8, 2023. Some of the posters read : "The best gift for me it's my rights!, My body, my choice!" © 2023...
View ArticleHong Kong: Warrants Aim at Activists Abroad
Click to expand Image The Hong Kong activist Nathan Law takes part in a demonstration outside the Foreign Office in Berlin, September 1, 2020. © 2020 Tobias Schwarz / AFP via Getty Images (New York) –...
View ArticleJournalist, Rights Lawyer Brutally Attacked in Chechnya
Click to expand Image Elena Milashina © 2009 Patricia Williams Today, a group of armed thugs in Chechnya’s capital, Grozny, attacked Elena Milashina, a prominent journalist and a recipient of Human...
View ArticleJordan Should Take Social Protection All the Way
Click to expand Image Tafilah governorate, where Human Rights Watch found that some people had been excluded from the Unified Cash Transfer Program. © 2023 Private Governments around the world are...
View ArticleLebanon: Armed Forces Summarily Deporting Syrians
Click to expand Image Syrian children gather between tents at a refugee camp in Saadnayel in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, June 13, 2023. © 2023 Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images Lebanese Armed Forces...
View ArticleBurundi Government Walks Out on UN Review
Click to expand Image The seat of Burundi delegation is pictured before a special session of the Human Rights Council on the situation in Burundi in Geneva, Switzerland, December 17, 2015. © 2015...
View ArticleNepal’s Historic Achievement on Marriage Equality
Click to expand Image Same-sex couple Surendra Pandey, left, and Maya Gurung, celebrate an interim order issued by the country's Supreme Court enabling the registration of same-sex marriages for the...
View ArticleFrance: Reform Police Stop Practices
Click to expand Image Police agents check identity documents of passerby during the lockdown in Rennes, France. April 11, 2020. © 2020 Sipa via AP Images (Paris) – There has been serious unrest...
View ArticleKurdistan Region of Iraq: LGBT Rights Group Shuttered
Click to expand Image (Beirut) – A court in the Kurdistan region of Iraq dealt independent civil society a blow on May 31, 2023, by ordering the closure of Rasan Organization over “its activities in...
View ArticleUkraine: Civilian Deaths from Cluster Munitions
Click to expand Image The carrier section of an 9M27K-series Uragan rocket that landed outside the home of a woman living on the left bank of the Siverskiy Donets River while Russian forces occupied...
View ArticleBangladesh: Labor Activist Killed
(Brussels) – Bangladesh authorities should ensure an independent and transparent investigation into the murder of union leader, Shahidul Islam, Human Rights Watch said today. Islam, who was president...
View ArticleEgypt Using Remote Hearings to Isolate Prisoners
Click to expand Image The courthouse at the new Badr Prison in Badr city, 65 kms east of the Egyptian capital Cairo, during a government-guided tour for the media, January 16, 2022. © 2022 Khaled...
View ArticleTunisia: Crisis as Black Africans Expelled to Libya Border
Click to expand Image Women and children expelled by Tunisian authorities to the Libyan border stand by the shore, July 6, 2023. © 2023 Private (Tunis) – Tunisian security forces have collectively...
View ArticleJapan Should Push Back on Hong Kong’s Rights Violations
Click to expand Image Pro-democracy demonstrators take to the streets in Shinjuku, Japan to mark the second anniversary of the anti-extradition bill movement in Hong Kong, June 12, 2021. © 2021 Viola...
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