Belarus/Poland: Abuse, Pushbacks At Border
Click to expand Image Two women and a child huddle in sleeping bags on the forest floor after crossing the Polish-Belarusian border near Michalowo on October 6, 2021. © 2021 Maciej...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Broken Promises to Aid Gender-Based Violence Survivors
Click to expand Image General view during the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) protest march organized by the Office of The Premier in collaboration with Phepha Foundation on April 26, 2021 in Durban,...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: Minister Faces Atrocity Charges
Click to expand Image Hassan Bouba Ali (R) with Ali Darassa (C) surrounded by other UPC leaders, during a meeting at their headquarters in Alindao, October 2017. © 2017 Alexis Huguet (Nairobi) – The...
View ArticleLGBT Qataris Call Foul Ahead of 2022 World Cup
Click to expand Image A general view of the Al Thumama Stadium is seen in Doha, Qatar, October 22, 2021. The stadium will be one of the venues for the 2022 World Cup. © 2021 AP Photo/Hussein Sayed As...
View ArticleBiden Administration Confronts US Anti-Trans Violence
Click to expand Image Celebrating the life of Marsha P. Johnson on what would have been her 75th Birthday, members of the LGBTQI+ community and their allies assembled in Washington Square Park in New...
View ArticleYemen: Houthi Forces Attack, Displace Villagers
Click to expand Image A truck searches for victims under the rubble. The house was destroyed by a Houthi missile in Al-Amoud in al-Jubah district, Marib governorate pictured on October 29, 2021. ©...
View ArticleMorocco: Journalist in Prison After Unfair Trial
Click to expand Image Supporters of Omar Radi in front of the Casablanca Courthouse, Morocco, September 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar (New York) – Omar Radi, an investigative journalist in...
View ArticleBelarus’s Political Crackdown Affects Everyday Life
Click to expand Image View of the Catholic Church in Hrodna, Belarus. © Tanya Lokshina/Human Rights Watch This October, my colleague and I spent a few days in Hrodna, Belarus’s fifth largest city and...
View ArticleBoy Tied and Abused for Years in Finnish Care Home
Tied to a bed at night, forced to wear a makeshift straitjacket, strapped to a chair with insulation tape and cargo straps for several hours a day. This, for many years, was the daily reality for Noah...
View ArticleEuropean Court Rules to Reunite Chechen Woman with Her Children
Click to expand Image Screenshot from an animation by Justice Initiative Project on “the custom of taking children away from mothers in Chechnya and Ingushetia.” © Justice Initiative Project This...
View ArticleIndia: Kashmiri Activist Held Under Abusive Law
Click to expand Image Khurram Parvez, a prominent human rights activist, left, in the office of the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society in Srinagar, India, August 25, 2020. © AP Photo/Dar...
View ArticleEU Waste Shipment Proposal Takes Steps to Address Plastic Crisis
Click to expand Image Plastic waste among other items at an illegal garbage dump near Alibeykoy Dam on the outskirts of Istanbul, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Mucahit Yapici Last week, the...
View ArticleTragedy in English Channel Should Be Turning Point in Border Standoff
Click to expand Image A group of people thought to be migrants crossing the Channel in a small boat headed in the direction of Dover, Kent, United Kingdom, August 10, 2020. © 2020 Gareth Fuller/Press...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: Detain War Crimes Suspect Now
Click to expand Image Hassan Bouba Ali (R) with Ali Darassa (C) surrounded by other UPC leaders, during a meeting at their headquarters in Alindao, October 2017. © 2017 Alexis Huguet (Nairobi) – The...
View ArticleRadicals Target Roma People in Ukraine
Click to expand Image Members of the C14 far right group, some of them wearing balaclavas, march toward an Russian orthodox church in Kiev, Ukraine. (File photo, April 20, 2018) © AP Photo/Felipe Dana...
View ArticleCanada Flooding Highlights Need for Inclusive Climate Action
Click to expand Image A woman and children who were stranded by high water due to flooding are rescued by a volunteer operating a boat in Abbotsford, British Columbia, November 16, 2021. © 2021 Darryl...
View ArticleTanzania: No Justice for Zanzibar Election Violence
Click to expand Image A woman walks past a wall with posters of presidential candidates in Zanzibar’s town on October 24, 2020. © 2020 Patrick Meinhardt / AFP via Getty Images (November 30, 2021) –...
View ArticleGuatemalan Journalists Protest Attacks on Media
Click to expand Image Journalists protest to demand an investigation into the killing of two journalists and increased security for the profession in front of the Interior Ministry building in...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Taliban Kill, ‘Disappear’ Ex-Officials
Click to expand Image Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 19, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File (New York) – Taliban forces in Afghanistan have summarily executed or forcibly...
View ArticleA Month of Fires in Thantlang, Myanmar
Since October 29, numerous fires have severely damaged Thantlang, a remote town in Myanmar’s northwestern Chin State. The evidence from space is undeniable: residential homes, places of worship,...
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