IMF Should Help Pakistan Uphold Right to Electricity
Click to expand Image People protest against the hikes in fuel prices and electricity billings, in Karachi, Pakistan, August 18, 2023. © 2023 Akhtar Soomro/Reuters Widespread protests in Pakistan...
View ArticleLebanon: Comedian Arrested for Critical Jokes
Stand-up comedian Nour Hajjar performs onstage at the KED Beirut on December 15, 2020. © 2020 JOSEPH EID/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – Lebanese authorities’ arrest and investigation of prominent...
View ArticleDR Congo: Deadly Crackdown in Goma
Congolese security forces shot and killed dozens of protesters, and wounded scores more, gathering in the city of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on August 30, 2023. The security forces...
View ArticleIran: Suspicious Death of Imprisoned Protester
Click to expand Image Javad Rouhi © 2023 Tabnak (Beirut) – An imprisoned Iranian protester died under suspicious circumstances on August 31, 2023, in northern Iran, raising grave concerns about his...
View ArticleBahrain: Address Hunger Strike Grievances
Click to expand Image Bahraini anti-government protesters raise signs with images of jailed human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja Friday, April 6, 2012, in Jidhafs, Bahrain. © 2012 AP Photo/Hasan...
View ArticleTroubling Development for Free Speech in Chad
Last October, protests against Chad’s transitional government were met with brutal repression as scores of people were killed, injured, or arrested. But despite a shrinking political space, activists,...
View ArticleUS Chooses Shameful Hypocrisy in Forcibly Returning Haitians
Click to expand Image People displaced by armed gangs from their homes in the Tabare neighborhood rest outside the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 25, 2023. © 2023 Odelyn Joseph/AP Photo...
View ArticleLebanon: Attack on Freedoms Targets LGBTI People
Click to expand Image In this Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009 picture, Lebanese police stand guard as protesters carry banners during a sit-in for gays and lesbians in Beirut. In February, about two dozen gays...
View ArticleBreaking Educational Barriers for Children with Albinism
Click to expand Image Flavia Pinto, head of Azemap, a volunteer-run organization that supports people with albinism, stands before a mural painted at a school in Tete province. The mural reads:...
View ArticleCluster Munitions: New Use, Transfers Challenge Total Ban
Click to expand Image People assess the damage caused by the Syrian-Russian military alliance’s cluster munition attack on the Maram camp for displaced people near the village of Kafr Jalis in Idlib...
View ArticleAustralian Prime Minister Should Press Philippines to End Killings
Click to expand Image Relatives of “drug war” victims light candles after the International Criminal Court allowed the ICC prosecutor to resume his investigation into alleged crimes against humanity...
View ArticleNo Consensus on Proposed Global Cybercrime Treaty
Click to expand Image United Nations Headquarters building in Manhattan, New York City, on December 21, 2021. © 2021 Sergi Reboredo / VWPics via AP Images On Friday, governments concluded two weeks...
View ArticleFire Tragedy a 'Wake Up Call' for South Africa
Click to expand Image Medics stand by a burning apartment block in Johannesburg on August 31, 2023. © 2023 Jerome Delay/AP Photo More than 70 people were killed last week when a fire tore through a...
View ArticleMexican State Becomes 12th to Decriminalize Abortion
Click to expand Image Women from various feminist collectives demonstrate in Mexico City’s Zócalo on the Global Day of Action for Access to Legal, Free, Safe and Free Abortion, September 28, 2022. ©...
View ArticleA Victory for Labor Rights and Transparency in Georgia
Click to expand Image Workers dig up the side of a road in Tbilisi, Georgia, March 23, 2018. © 2018 lavlor Weidman/Bloomberg via Getty Images In a positive step for workers’ rights, Georgia’s Labor...
View ArticleRussia Denies Its Widespread Use of Cluster Munitions
Click to expand Image Remnants of dozens of Smerch and Uragan cluster munition rockets collected by Ukraine’s State Emergency Service from Kharkiv in April 2022. © 2022 Sergey Bobok, AFP There has...
View ArticleNo US State Meets Child Rights Standards
Click to expand Image © 2022 Ben Wiseman for Human Rights Watch (New York) – Legal protections for children in the United States and in every individual state fall short of international children’s...
View ArticleEurope: Pivotal Moment for Sex Worker Rights
Click to expand Image Sex workers and their allies gathered on December 20, 2019 in Nantes, France for the world day against violence against sex workers. © 2019 Estelle Ruiz/Nur Photo via Getty...
View ArticleAlarming Increase in Attacks on Education Worldwide
Click to expand Image On August 17, 2022, a playground sits empty in front of a destroyed school in Kharkiv, Ukraine. © UNICEF/UN0689537/Gilbertson - Highway Child This report was authored by a...
View ArticleEgypt: Prominent Critic Prosecuted Over Peaceful Speech
Click to expand Image Hesham Kassem in his office under construction in Cairo in 2010. © Hossam el-Hamalawy (Beirut) – Egyptian authorities have unlawfully detained a prominent critic and veteran news...
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