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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...

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Prominent 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...

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Seychelles: 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...

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Canada: 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...

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Cameroon: 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...

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Ugandan 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,...

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Drone 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...

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New 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...

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Argentina: 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...

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Brazil: 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...

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Yemen: 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...

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Türkiye: 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...

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Thailand: 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...

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Syrians 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...

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Michigan: 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...

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Haiti: 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,...

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Mali: 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. ©...

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Indonesian 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...

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Eswatini 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...

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Saudi 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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