Kuwait Court Rules Anti-Transgender Law Unconstitutional
Click to expand Image General view of Kuwait's National Assembly during the inauguration of the 14th Legislative Term of the National Assembly in Kuwait, December 16, 2012. © 2012 AP Photo/Gustavo...
View ArticleSenior UN Official Pushes Accountability for Ethiopia Atrocities
Click to expand Image A woman waits to receive food at a distribution site operated by the Relief Society of Tigray in Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, May 8, 2021. © 2021 AP...
View ArticleIraq Detains More than 1,000 Children as ISIS Suspects
Iraqi authorities detained over 1,000 children, some as young as nine years old, last year on national security charges, primarily for suspected links with the Islamic State (ISIS), according to a new...
View ArticleNorth Koreans Face Repatriation from Russia
Click to expand Image The North Korean Embassy in Moscow, Russia, December 18, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin Choe Kum Chol, a 33-year-old North Korean military information technology officer,...
View ArticleFlorida Advances 'Don’t Say Gay' Bill
Click to expand Image Rainbow flags for sale are photographed on June 24, 2017. © 2017 Reuters On February 17, a Florida committee advanced a bill that would restrict discussions of sexual...
View ArticleJapan Beverage Giant to Withdraw from Myanmar
Click to expand Image A man walks near an advertisement for a Kirin brand beer in Tokyo, Japan, August 25, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Koji Sasahara Japanese beverage giant Kirin Holdings Company is pulling...
View ArticleChina: Censorship Mars Beijing Olympics
(New York) – Chinese government censorship seriously marred the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, which close on February 20, 2022, Human Rights Watch said today. The International Olympic Committee (IOC)...
View ArticleIndia: Biased Investigations 2 Years After Delhi Riot
Click to expand Image A municipal worker stands where communal clashes took place in New Delhi, India, February 27, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Altaf Qadri (New York) – Indian authorities are wrongfully...
View ArticleCanada: Let Gravely Ill Canadians Leave Northeast Syria
Click to expand Image Canadian Kimberly Polman in Roj camp in northeast Syria. © 2019 Maya Alleruzzo/AP Photo Canada is effectively preventing a Canadian woman and a young Canadian child detained in...
View ArticlePoland’s President Should Veto Bill Targeting Sex Education
Click to expand Image People hold a protest rally in front of Poland's Education Ministry in Warsaw, Poland, October 4, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski Rights activists, students, and...
View ArticlePhilippines: Candidates Should Pledge to Free Jailed Senator
Click to expand Image Senator Leila de Lima, center, is escorted to detention a day after a warrant was issued for her arrest, Manila, Philippines, February 24, 2017. © 2017 AP Photos/Bullit Marquez...
View ArticleLandmark Decision on Colombia Abortion Rights
Click to expand Image Abortion rights activists celebrate in front of Colombia’s Constitutional Court in Bogota, Colombia, February 21, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Fernando Vergara Colombia’s Constitutional...
View ArticleGlobal: Older People at Heightened Risk in Conflict
(New York) – Older people are often at heightened risk of abuses during armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. All parties to armed conflict should end abuses against older...
View ArticleUS Congress Falls Short in Plan to Cut Insulin Costs
Click to expand Image A woman fills a syringe with insulin at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Commerce, California, April 29, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Reed Saxon United States Senate Majority...
View ArticleMyanmar: EU Needs to Enforce New Sanctions on Junta
Click to expand Image Myanmar military advance towards protesters during a demonstration against the military coup. © Photo by Santosh Krl/SOPA Images/Sipa USA/Sipa via AP Images (New York) – The...
View ArticleEl Salvador’s Broad Computer Crime Laws Threaten Rights
Click to expand Image An interior view of the El Salvadoran legislative assembly in San Salvador on May 1, 2021. © 2021 Camilo Freedman / SOPA Images/Sipa via AP Images Earlier this month, El...
View ArticleVenezuela: EU Elections Report Flags Rights Barriers
Click to expand Image Isabel Santos, front, member of the European Parliament and Chief Observer of the 2021 EU Election Observation Mission to Venezuela, leaves the National Electoral Council...
View ArticleSenior Military Officer Accused of Crackdown on Protesters in Iraq
Click to expand Image As part of a funeral procession, people transport the coffin of a protester killed at a Baghdad demonstration, November 24, 2019. © 2019 Reuters/Khalid al-Mousily Criminal...
View ArticleGuanajuato, Mexico Recognizes Non-Binary Person’s Identity
Click to expand Image Fausto Martínez descends a flight of stairs in Guanajuato, Mexico, February 18, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Mario Armas On February 11, Mexico’s Guanajuato state issued Fausto...
View ArticleEgypt: Hunger Strike Against Indefinite Detention
Click to expand Image Ahmed Maher, Abdel Rahman Tarek, and Walid Shawky. © Private (Beirut) – Three Egyptian activists began hunger strikes on February 10 and 11, 2022, to protest their indefinite...
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