UN Development Agency Embraces Egypt’s Abusive Rulers
Click to expand Image President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi appears with UNDP officials at the release of the new UNDP Egypt report in the new administrative capital, east of Cairo, September 14, 2021....
View ArticleBiden’s Best Chance to Tackle US Inequality
Click to expand Image US President Joe Biden speaks on how his Build Back Better agenda will lower prescription drug prices, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 12, 2021....
View ArticleAnother Political Detention in Mali
Click to expand Image The Sundiata Keïta army base in Kati, Mali, May 25, 2021. © 2021 Amadou Keita/Reuters Dr. Kalilou Doumbia, a respected jurist and advisor to Mali’s top political figures, went...
View ArticleChina’s Coal Announcement Potential Climate Game-Changer
Click to expand Image Chinese-built Java 7 coal-fired power plant in Serang, Banten, Indonesia, October 2020. © 2020 RONALD SIAGIAN/AFP via Getty Images Chinese President Xi Jinping told the United...
View ArticleUN: Covid-19 Summit at UN Falls Short
Click to expand Image Commodifying Life-Saving Medical Products Undermines Global Health Response © Álex Cámara/NurPhoto via AP) Leaders at a virtual Covid-19 summit on the sidelines of the United...
View ArticleQuad Leaders Should Back Covid-19 Intellectual Property Waiver
Click to expand Image Activists outside Pfizer headquarters call on US President Joe Biden to support the TRIPS Waiver, New York City, April 22, 2021. © 2021 Anthony Behar/Sipa USA/AP Images Leaders...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Taliban Abuses Cause Widespread Fear
Click to expand Image A Taliban member watches as women demonstrate for human rights in Herat, Afghanistan, September 2, 2021. © 2021 AFP via Getty Images (New York) – The Taliban in Afghanistan’s...
View ArticleSign Language Is Key to Real Inclusion
Click to expand Image A sign language interpreter records sign language lessons that are broadcast on public television, at an elementary school in Athens, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. © 2020 Thanassis...
View ArticleScrutiny by UN Rights Body on South Sudan Remains Critical
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019...
View ArticleAs World Heats, Youth Protesters March for Climate Action
Click to expand Image © Human Rights Watch On Friday, September 24, young climate activists from around the world will be marching once again to call on governments to cut carbon emissions and tackle...
View ArticleJapan’s Next Premier Should Endorse a Sanctions Law
Click to expand Image Myanmar residents in Japan stage a protest rally in Tokyo on August 1, 2021. © 2021 Kyodo/AP Images Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will hold its party...
View ArticleAfghan Women Fleeing Violence Lose Vital Protection
Click to expand Image Afghan women in their bedroom at a women's shelter in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 20, 2017. © 2017 REBECCA CONWAY/AFP via Getty Images “My parents warned me they will kill me if...
View ArticleGuinea: Coup Further Complicates Massacre Justice
Click to expand Image In Guinea’s capital, Conakry, family members cry after identifying the body of a relative killed on September 28, 2009, when security forces fired on opposition supporters as...
View ArticleKenya Censors Another Gay-Themed Film
Click to expand Image “I Am Samuel” documentary, 2020 I have never met Samuel, the gay Kenyan protagonist of the acclaimed documentary “I Am Samuel.” But I feel as if I know him. Not only does...
View ArticleRwanda: Round Ups-Linked to Commonwealth Meeting
Click to expand Image UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left), then Foreign Secretary, and Paul Kagame (right), President of Rwanda, meet during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London,...
View ArticleRussia: Three Human Rights Groups Penalized
Click to expand Image The Russian flag flies on a courthouse building in St. Petersburg, Russia, March 15 2020. © 2020 Alexander Koriakov/Kommersant/Sipa via AP Images (Berlin) – Russian authorities...
View ArticleFrench Court Confirms Dissolution of Anti-Discrimination Group
Click to expand Image Protesters hold a banner at a demonstration against a bill dubbed as "anti-separatism" and islamophobic in Paris, France on March 21, 2021. © 2021 ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty...
View ArticleMali: Inquiry Links Basketball Federation to Sexual Abuse
Click to expand Image The FIBA logo on its headquarters, the House of Basketball, in Mies, Switzerland, June 2013. © 2013 BORIS HEGER/AFP via Getty Images (Nyon, Switzerland) – The International...
View ArticleBeijing to Reduce ‘Non-Medically Necessary’ Abortions
Click to expand Image A promotion for China's defunct one-child policy remains on the outer wall of a government office in Bobai, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, August 26, 2021. © 2021 The Yomiuri...
View ArticleUS Congress Should Create Pathway to Citizenship
Click to expand Image Hina Naveed, DACA recipient, discusses the urgent need for a pathway to citizenship with US Vice President Kamala Harris and other DACA recipients, Thursday, July 22, 2021, at...
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