Chinese Authorities Aim to ‘Liberate’ Tibetan Believers
Click to expand Image Hedong Village in Xumai Township, Tibet Autonomous Region, launches the "Four Stresses and Four Loves" teaching, September 11, 2020. © 2020 Sunshine Tibet/WeChat Wu Yingjie, the...
View ArticlePoland’s Constitutional Tribunal Rolls Back Reproductive Rights
Click to expand Image Protestors prepare to take part in a car demonstration organized by Women's Strike against imposing further restrictions on abortion law in Poland. Krakow, Poland on October...
View ArticleCambodia: Hun Sen and His Abusive Generals
(New York) – Cambodia’s increasingly dictatorial, one-party rule is underpinned by generals in the security forces who are responsible for serious and systematic human rights violations, Human Rights...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Vice President Threatens Those Reporting Civilian Deaths
Click to expand Image Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh at an inauguration ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 9, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File (New York) – Afghan Vice President...
View ArticleIran: Prisoners Who Reported Abuse Charged
Click to expand Image A campaign poster showing environmental activists, Taher Ghadirian, Niloufar Bayani, Amirhossein Khaleghi, Houman Jokar, Sam Rajabi, Sepideh Kashani, Morad Tahbaz and Abdolreza...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Cluster Munitions Used in Nagorno-Karabakh
Click to expand Image A shop containing toilets, tiles and other housewares burns in Stepanakert on the night of October 3, 2020 after the city is shelled. © 2020 Union of Informed Citizens....
View ArticleUS: Heat Emergency Plans Missing Pregnancy, Racial Justice
Click to expand Image © RuslanDashinsky/Getty Images (Washington, DC) – Many plans by local, state, and federal authorities in the United States to respond to heat extremes and climate change miss the...
View ArticleRussia: Authorities Targeting Free Speech at a University
Click to expand Image Tens of thousands of people rallied in central Moscow Russia, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, for the third consecutive weekend to protest the exclusion of opposition and independent...
View ArticleRebuilding Fairer Economies Demands Global Support
Click to expand Image Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva participates in a panel discussion on post Covid-19 recovery and resilience during the 2020 Annual Meetings at the International Monetary...
View ArticleChina’s “Untenable Operating Environment” for Business in Xinjiang
Click to expand Image People work amidst massive piles of cotton in China's Xinjiang province. The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), an independent organization that promotes sustainably grown and...
View ArticleEast Africa: Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Click to expand Image Screen grab from the film "Imported for my Body."© BBC 2019 (Nairobi) – The Nairobi edition of the Human Rights Watch film festival celebrates its 9th season this year with its...
View ArticleTurkey: 2nd Politically Motivated Trial for Rights Defender
Click to expand Image Osman Kavala © 2017 Private (Istanbul) – A new bogus indictment against human rights defender and businessman, Osman Kavala, and US academic, Henri Barkey, for allegedly spying...
View ArticleForeigners Living with HIV in Jordan Face an Impossible Choice
Click to expand Image Silhouettes are cast on a Jordanian national flag in Amman, Jordan, November 30, 2016. © 2020 AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon In Jordan, medical professionals and health facilities are...
View ArticleAfghanistan School Bombing Targets Minority Community
Click to expand Image Afghan men bury a victim of the suicide attack that targeted a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 25, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib As Afghan peace talks crawl along...
View ArticleUsing Art to Fight Discrimination Against People 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 ArticleThe Next President Should Protect Human Rights in the US and End Abuses
Whoever wins the November 3 presidential election has an opportunity – and a responsibility – to help the United States move forward by making human rights a priority in the next administration. This...
View ArticleWomen Reportedly Subjected to Forced Gynecological Exams in Qatar
Click to expand Image Airplanes are seen parked at the Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar, June 16, 2017. © 2017 AP Photo/Malak Harb On October 2, Qatari authorities removed 13 women from an...
View ArticleWestern Australia: Covid-19 Hard Border Causing Hardship
Click to expand Image A Covid-19 signage is seen at a vehicle checkpoint on the Pacific Highway on the Queensland - New South Wales border in Brisbane, Australia, April 15, 2020. © 2020 PATRICK...
View ArticleNorth Korea’s Unlawful ‘Shoot on Sight’ Orders
Click to expand Image A North Korean flag flutters in the wind at a military guard post seen from the South Korean city of Paju, at the border with North Korea, May 3, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Ahn...
View ArticleMyanmar: Election Commission Lacks Transparency
Click to expand Image Members of the Union Election Commission during a press conference in Naypyitaw, Myanmar on Thursday, June 4, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo (Bangkok) – Myanmar’s Union...
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