UN Rights Council: Renew Iran Mandates
Click to expand Image Delegates attend the opening day of the 50th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, in Geneva, June 13, 2022. © 2022 Keystone/Valentin Flauraud (Geneva) – The United...
View ArticleProminent Congolese Journalist Convicted on Baseless Charges
Click to expand Image Stanis Bujakera in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 2023. © 2023 Actualite.cd This week, a court in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, convicted the prominent...
View ArticleSeychelles: Rights Concerns in High-Profile Case
Click to expand Image The Supreme Court of Justice, in the island of Mahe, Seychelles, August 16, 2023. ©Eduardo Soteras for The Washington Post via Getty Images. (Johannesburg) – The authorities in...
View ArticleCanada: All 10 Provinces To End Immigration Detention in Jails
Click to expand Image © 2024 Human Rights Watch (Ottawa) – All 10 of Canada's provinces have now committed to ending their immigration detention agreements and arrangements with the Canada Border...
View ArticleCameroon: Government Bans Opposition Coalitions
Click to expand Image Demonstrators stopped by gendarmes and police in Bafang, West Cameroon, on September 22, 2020. © 2020 Private (Nairobi) – A declaration by Cameroon’s territorial administration...
View ArticleUgandan Appeals Court Shutters LGBT Rights Group
Click to expand Image Pepe Onziema (L), Frank Mugisha (C), from SMUG and UNAIDS representative Tseday Alemseged before the hearing of the petition challenging the Anti Homosexuality Act,...
View ArticleDrone Attack Collapses Odesa Residential Building
Click to expand Image An apartment building heavily damaged during a Russian drone strike in Odesa, Ukraine March 2, 2024. © 2024 Stringer/Reuters On March 2, Andriy Sidak raced to his sister’s...
View ArticleNew Bill Would Protect Child Farmworkers in the US
Click to expand Image A 15-year-old girl works on a tobacco farm in North Carolina. July 2013. © 2013 Human Rights Watch A bill introduced today in the US Senate would strengthen protections for...
View ArticleArgentina: Firearms Resolution Opens Door to Abuse
Click to expand Image Security Minister Patricia Bullrich shakes hands with security forces deployed to Rosario, Argentina, on Monday, March 11, 2024. The Argentine government sent federal security...
View ArticleBrazil: Join Regional Treaty on Environment, Defenders
Click to expand Image Environmental defenders. © Win Edson for Human Rights Watch (São Paulo) – The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should rally legislators to approve...
View ArticleYemen: Houthis Sentence Men to Death, Flogging
Click to expand Image Illustration of string sealing person’s lips. © 2020 Malte Mueller / Getty Images (Beirut) – A Houthi court sentenced 32 men, 9 of them to death, on January 23, 2024, in an...
View ArticleTürkiye: Stonewalling on Charges for Officials in Earthquake Deaths
Play Video The absence of criminal proceedings against municipal officials in deaths stemming from the February 6, 2023 earthquakes, is deeply troubling and unacceptable. Public officials for years...
View ArticleThailand: Promptly Pass Same-Sex Marriage Bill
Click to expand Image Women kiss while holding a poster to support marriage equality, during a Pride Parade in Bangkok, Thailand, June 4, 2023. ©2023 AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File (Bangkok) – The Thai...
View ArticleSyrians Face Dire Conditions in Turkish-Occupied ‘Safe Zone’
Click to expand Image The Tel Abyad border crossing in northern Raqqa, Syria, pictured on October 6, 2022. © 2022 Bakr Alkasm/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – Turkish authorities are deporting or...
View ArticleMichigan: Parental Consent Law for Abortion Harms Young People
Click to expand Image © 2024 Rebecca Hendin for Human Rights Watch A Michigan law that requires a young person to obtain parental consent to have an abortion threatens the health and safety of youth...
View ArticleHaiti: Six Urgent Steps to Overcome Crisis
Click to expand Image Haitians forced to flee their homes amid spiraling criminal violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 9, 2024. © 2024 Guerinault Louis/Anadolu via Getty Images (Washington, DC,...
View ArticleMali: Army, Wagner Group Atrocities Against Civilians
Click to expand Image Mali’s Foreign Affairs Minister Abdoulaye Diop (left) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a joint press conference following talks in Moscow, February 28, 2024. ©...
View ArticleIndonesian Army Apologizes After Torture Video Goes Viral
The Indonesian military apologized to “all Papuan people” and detained 13 soldiers from an elite battalion in West Java who had tortured a Papuan man in Gome, Central Papua. Click to expand Image A...
View ArticleEswatini Authorities Target Activist’s Widow
Click to expand Image A vigil decrying the assassination of Eswatini Human Rights Lawyer Thulani Maseko in Nakuru Town, Kenya, January 30, 2023. © 2023 James Wakibia/SOPA Images via AP Photo On March...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Football Fans Imprisoned for Chant
Click to expand Image Inter Milan's players lift the trophy to celebrate winning the Italian SuperCup football match at the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh on January 18, 2023. © 2023 Fayes...
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