20 Years of US Torture – and Counting
Click to expand Image The first foreign Muslim men imprisoned by the US military at the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in the so-called “global war on terror.” Since January 2002, the US...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Imminent Deportation of Uyghur Detainees
Click to expand Image Saudi Crown Prince and Defence Minister Mohammed bin Salman arrives to attend the first meeting of the defense ministers and officials of the 41-member Saudi-led Muslim...
View ArticleDjokovic Case Highlights Australia’s Cruel Immigration Policies
Click to expand Image Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic celebrates his win at the Paris Masters tennis tournament in Paris, France, November 6, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Thibault Camus While the world...
View ArticleSouth Korean Court Declines to Recognize Same-Sex Partners
Click to expand Image Participants march with a rainbow flag during a Pride parade in Seoul, South Korea, July 15, 2017. © 2017 AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon. A court in Seoul, South Korea has rejected a...
View ArticleIran: Writer Dies in Custody
Click to expand Image Baktash Abtin. © 2020 Private (Beirut) – The death of the writer and poet Baktash Abtin in custody is emblematic of the dire situation Iranian authorities have created for...
View ArticleChinese Authorities’ ‘Inhumane Cruelty’ Again on Display
Click to expand Image Zhang Qing (L), the wife of Chinese human rights activist Guo Feixiong, speaks at a press conference before a subcommittee hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in...
View ArticleMaldives: Extremist Attacks Go Unpunished
Click to expand Image Maldivian police secure area following a blast targeting former President Mohamed Nasheed, Malé, Maldives, May 6, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Mohamed Sharuhaan (New York) – The...
View ArticleNepal: The Authorities are Failing to Protect Citizens
(New York) – Inadequate and unequal access to health care in Nepal was exacerbated during 2021 by government failures to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, Human Rights Watch said today in its World...
View ArticleTurkey Defies International Human Rights Law
Click to expand Image On March 20, 2021, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a decree withdrawing Turkey from the Council of Europe’s Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women...
View ArticleBrazil: Protect Voting, Speech Rights
Click to expand Image Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro watches a military parade in front of the presidential palace in Brasilia on August 10, 2021. © Matheus W Alves/Futura Press (São Paulo) –...
View ArticleIraq: Impunity for Serious Abuses
Click to expand Image A woman casts her vote in the general elections on October 10, 2021 at a polling place in Baghdad. © 2021 Ayman Yaqoob/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (Beirut) – The Iraqi...
View ArticleLebanon: Callous Disregard for Rights
Click to expand Image Families of Port Blast's victims show portraits of their beloved ones near the Palace of Justice in Beirut, November 25, 2021. Relatives of victims call for an independent...
View ArticleBahrain: Repression Marks Uprising Anniversary
Click to expand Image An anti-government protestor gestures in front of police as demonstrators re-occupy Pearl roundabout on February 19, 2011 in Manama, Bahrain. Ten years after the anti-government...
View ArticleLatin America: Alarming Reversal of Basic Freedoms
Click to expand Image A man is arrested during a demonstration in Havana against the government of Cuba, on July 11, 2021. © 2021 Adalberto Roque/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – Latin America is...
View ArticleGermany: Conviction for State Torture in Syria
Click to expand Image Photos of Syrians who have been detained or disappeared set up by Families for Freedom, as part of a protest in front of the court in Koblenz, July 2, 2020. © 2020 Alexander...
View ArticleNorth Korea: Covid-19 Used to Bludgeon Rights
Click to expand Image North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warns of possible food shortages during a Workers' Party meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, June 15, 2021. © 2021 Korean Central News Agency/Korea...
View ArticleSouth Korea: Backtracking on Rights Protections
Click to expand Image South Korean activists hold placards on discrimination against women during a protest to mark International Women's Day in Seoul, South Korea, March 8, 2021. Sign on the right...
View ArticleBelarus: Civil Society ‘Purge’
Click to expand Image Journalists Katsiaryna Andreyeva, right, and Daria Chultsova embrace inside a defendants' cage in a court room in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. © 2021 AP (Berlin) –...
View ArticleRussia: Repression Escalates
Click to expand Image Police detain protesters at a rally against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg, January 31, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky (Moscow) –...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Protect Human Rights During Crisis
Click to expand Image Police detain Khalida Akytkhan outside the Chinese Consulate in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where relatives of people detained or disappeared in Xinjiang, China have been protesting for...
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