Combating Domestic Violence is Dangerous Work in Russia
Click to expand Image The staff of Nasiliu.net center, an awareness-raising group that provides assistance to domestic violence survivors. © 2020 Nasiliu.net In Russia, working to prevent and combat...
View ArticleSaudi: Terrorism Court Rushes Activist’s Unfair Trial
Click to expand Image Prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul had been on hunger strike for six days before Saudi authorities finally allowed her parents to visit on August 31, according...
View ArticleHungary’s Family Minister Undermines Equality for Women
Click to expand Image Hungarian minister with responsibility for families, Katalin Novak, in a December 2020 video lecturing Hungarian women about how they can achieve success. © Axioma Media I...
View ArticleEgypt: Collective Punishment in Scorpion Prison
Click to expand Image A satellite photograph of Scorpion Prison taken in September 2016. Inmates suffer abuses in secret and are denied most access to the outside world. Satellite imagery. © 2016...
View ArticleSouth Asia: Justice, Services Can Curb Sexual Violence
(New York) – South Asian governments should disregard populist death penalty rhetoric and listen to their own experts to prevent and end sexual violence against women, Human Rights Watch said in a...
View ArticlePeru: Serious Police Abuses Against Protesters
(Lima) – The Peruvian National Police committed multiple abuses against mostly peaceful demonstrators protesting the ousting of then-President Martín Vizcarra in November 2020, Human Rights Watch said...
View ArticleFrance: Law for Responsible Asset Return Urgently Needed
Click to expand Image A picture taken on February 14, 2012 on the Avenue Foch in Paris shows a truck at the entrance of Paris residence of the son of Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang,...
View ArticleRomanian Court Slams Law Banning Discussion of Gender in Education
Click to expand Image Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, where the Constitutional Court of Romania is located, July 2020. © Council of Europe Romania’s Constitutional Court this week struck down a...
View ArticleKazakhstan Adopts Long-Promised Amendments to Trade Union Law
Click to expand Image A worker walks past oil tanks in southern Kazakhstan. © 2016 Reuters Kazakhstan has taken an important step toward improving trade union rights – a major area of human rights...
View ArticleWestern Sahara: Morocco Cracks Down on Activists
(New York) – Morocco has cracked down on pro-independence activists in Western Sahara after an incident at a border crossing on November 13, 2020, Human Rights Watch said today. The incident re-ignited...
View ArticleTanzanian Activist Still Jailed One Year On
Click to expand Image Tito Magoti and Theodory Giyani attend a court hearing in Dar es Salaam on December 24, 2019. © 2019 Sipa Michael Mallya This Sunday marks one year since police in Dar es Salaam...
View ArticleItaly: Flawed Migrant Regularization Program
Click to expand Image An immigrant worker picks clementines in Corgiliano-Rossano, Calabria, southern Italy, December 12, 2020. © Alfonso Di Vincenzo/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images (Milan) –...
View ArticleUS: Protect Cameroonians From Deportation
Click to expand Image A patrol of Cameroonian gendarmes during a political rally in the Omar Bongo Square, Buea, capital of the South-West region, on October 3, 2018. © 2018 Marco Longari/AFP/Getty...
View ArticleNew York: Inquiry Confirms Police Misconduct at Protests
(New York) – The recommendations by New York City’s oversight agency for changes in police department operations in a December 18, 2020 report appear to fall far short of the reforms needed, Human...
View ArticleTurkey: YouTube Precedent Threatens Free Expression
Click to expand Image YouTube announced on December 16, 2020 that it will appoint a local representative in Turkey to comply with the country’s recently amended internet law. © 2020 StockSnap on...
View ArticleSudan: Security Forces Kill Protesters in Eastern Sudan
Click to expand Image Still image from a video obtained by Human Rights Watch shows three military vehicles, identified by witnesses as belonging to the RSF near Kassala Teaching Hospital, on October...
View ArticleIn a Pandemic Year, Some Good News for Children
Click to expand Image Students sing the national anthem before class at a secondary school in Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, November 20, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Leo Correa This year has been...
View ArticleRwanda Should Stop Locking Up the Poor
Click to expand Image Gikondo Transit Center, April 2015. © 2015 Human Rights Watch. The African Court on Human and People’s Rights has held that states’ laws enabling the detention of people who,...
View ArticleVenezuela: Humanitarian Groups Under Attack
Click to expand Image Children eat lunch at Madre Asunción's community kitchen, which is ran by the NGO Alimenta La Solidaridad, on October 9, 2019 in Petare, Caracas, Venezuela. © Leonardo Fernández...
View ArticleQatar: Wage Abuse Action Shortchanges Workers
Click to expand Image Former and current employees of Imperial Trading and Construction Company (ITCC) protest months of delayed and unpaid wages outside the company's headquarters in Qatar. © 2020...
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