Kyrgyzstan: “False Information” Law Threatens Free Speech
Click to expand Image Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister Sadyr Japarov delivers a speech during a session of parliament in Bishkek, October 16, 2020. © 2020 REUTERS/Vladimir Pirogov (Bishkek) – Kyrgyzstan’s...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Advancing Taliban Execute Detainees
Click to expand Image Supporters of the Taliban carry their signature white flags after the Taliban said they seized the Afghan border town of Spin Boldaka on July 14, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Tariq...
View ArticleIndonesia Army Chief to Terminate Unscientific ‘Virginity Test’
Click to expand Image Female national army officers and police officers escort hundreds of women who packed the area in front of the State Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia on March 8, 2020, in...
View ArticleIndian Girl’s Alleged Rape and Murder Sparks Protests
Click to expand Image Activists hold a candlelight march protesting the alleged rape and murder of a 9-year-old Dalit girl in New Delhi, India on August 4, 2021. © 2021 Pankaj Nangia/Anadolu Agency...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Justice System Failing Women
Click to expand Image A mural calling for an end to violence against women in Kabul, Afghanistan. © 2017 ArtLords (New York) – The Afghan government’s failure to provide accountability for violence...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Forced Anal Testing in Homosexuality Prosecutions
Click to expand Image Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev speaking in Qingdao, China on June 9, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko (Washington, D.C.)—Authorities in Uzbekistan have...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: African Union Disappoints on Justice
Click to expand Image Civilians fleeing Kajo Keji county, toward the southern border with Uganda, April 27, 2017. © 2017 Jason Patinkin (Nairobi) – The African Union Commission’s failure to advance...
View ArticleRussia Expands Onslaught on Critics
Click to expand Image A smart phone user reads MBKh Media news site, one of three news outlets whose websites were blocked on August 4, 2021. © 2021 Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Images With Russia’s...
View ArticleNew EU Sanctions on Nicaraguan Officials Amid Escalating Crisis
Click to expand Image Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, lead a rally in Managua, Nicaragua on September 5, 2018. © 2018 Alfredo Zuniga/AP Images On...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Police Abuses Surge Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
Click to expand Image Family members of inmates gathered at Mahara prison near Colombo, Sri Lanka, demanding to see their imprisoned relatives after eight inmates died during unrest, November 20,...
View ArticleMozambique: Civilians Prevented from Fleeing Fighting
A man carries a mattress as he arrives at Paquitequete beach in Pemba, Mozambique after fleeing Palma by boat with 49 other people, on May 22, 2021. © 2021 JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images. The...
View ArticleEnsure Justice for Zimbabwe’s Child Brides
The heart-wrenching case of a 14-year-old girl who died during childbirth at an Apostolic church in Marange, in Zimbabwe’s Manicaland province, has sent shockwaves across the country. According to...
View ArticleA Year of Dismantling Civil Society in Belarus
Click to expand Image A woman wearing white stands in front of riot police during a Belarusian opposition rally protesting the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, September 13,...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Mourns Death of Sergei Kovalev
Sergei Kovalev, a prominent Soviet dissident and Russia’s first human rights ombudsman, died on August 9, 2021, at the age of 91. A talented biophysicist, Kovalev paid a high price for his strong stand...
View ArticleSweden: Iran War Crimes Trial Opens
Click to expand Image A human rights exhibition on Iran during the international campaign to demand justice for the victims of the 1988 massacre, held near the French National Assembly in Paris,...
View ArticleCambodia: China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Dam is a Rights Disaster
(Bangkok) – A large-scale, Chinese-financed hydroelectric dam in northeastern Cambodia, completed in 2018, has undermined the lives and livelihoods of thousands of Indigenous and ethnic minority...
View ArticleVideo Captures Vicious Homophobic Attack in Cameroon
Click to expand Image Patricia and Shakiro, two transgender women who were convicted in May of "attempted homosexuality," record a video after their release to thank those who supported them in...
View ArticleMozambique Government Retakes Key Town from Militants
Click to expand Image Rwandan soldiers patrol the village of Mute, in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, on August 9, 2021. © 2021 Marc Hoogsteyns/AP Photos Mozambican and Rwandan government forces...
View ArticleIraq: Apparent Familial Feud Drives Illegal Evictions
Click to expand Image Government buses waiting to move families from one camp in Anbar governate to another during a previous wave of camp closures in December 2018. © 2018 Belkis Wille/Human Rights...
View ArticleNiger: Surging Atrocities by Armed Islamist Groups
Click to expand Image Villagers at a mass grave containing the remains of civilians killed during the March 21, 2021 attack by armed Islamist groups on villages in Tahoua region, Niger. More than 170...
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