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Germany Prosecutes Environmental Defenders

Click to expand Image Police officers remove an activist of the "Letzte Generation" as they protest for climate action in Berlin, Germany September 28, 2023. © 2023 Lisi Niesner/Reuters German...

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Kenya-Led Security Mission Prepares for Deployment in Haiti

Click to expand Image Supplies are offloaded from a US Air Force C-17 cargo plane on the tarmac at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The plane carried supplies for...

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Zimbabwe Courts Seek to Silence Rights Defender

Click to expand Image Police officers outside the Magistrates Court in Harare, Zimbabwe, April 6, 2021. © 2021 Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images A Zimbabwe court has sentenced labor activist Obert...

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Pakistan: Abusive Evictions Target Urban Poor

Click to expand Image Homes in Mujahid Colony, Karachi after being demolished, 2022.  © 2022 Karachi Bachao Tehrik Pakistani authorities frequently use colonial-era laws and policies to forcibly evict...

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Ukraine: Russia’s Odesa Cluster Munition Attack Harms Civilians

Click to expand Image Odesa Legal Academy in flames after a Russian cluster munition attack, April 29, 2024. © 2024 Ukraine’s Southern Defense Forces (Kyiv, May 29, 2024) – A recent Russian cluster...

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UN Panel Underscores Need for Monitoring Abuses at Borders

Click to expand Image Syrian survivor Mohammad, 18, who was rescued with other people after their boat, the Adriana, sank off the Greek coast, hugs his brother Fadi, who came to meet him from...

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Panama Completes First Climate-Related Relocation

Click to expand Image A Guna Indigenous woman walks in Isber Yala, the site where her new, safer house was built in Guna Yala Comarca, Panama, August 30, 2023.  © 2023 Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images...

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UK Court Rules Anti-Protest Measures Unlawful

Click to expand Image People march for the "Not My Bill protest" to demonstrate against the government's anti-protest laws, anti-strike laws, anti-traveler laws and the illegal migration bill, London,...

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Uzbekistan: Imprisoned for ‘Insulting the President Online’

Click to expand Image Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev receives Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (not pictured) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on April 05, 2021. © 2021 Uzbekistani Presidency...

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Central African Republic: Justice Needed for 2014 Massacre

Click to expand Image The sign outside the Notre-Dame church after the killings in May 2014, Fatima neighborhood, Bangui, Central African Republic, June 24, 2014. © 2014 Lewis Mudge/Human Rights Watch...

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Tunisia: Authorities Escalate Clampdown on Media, Freedom of Expression

Click to expand Image The Tunisian Journalists Union (SNJT) protests against the sentencing of journalist Khalifa Guesmi to five years in prison in Tunis, Tunisia, May 18, 2023.  © 2023 Mohamed...

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Federico Borello to Join Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Federico Borello (New York)  – Federico Borello, an Italian lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in human rights, civilian protection, and transitional justice, has been...

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European Commission Prematurely Ends Rule of Law Scrutiny of Poland

Click to expand Image Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen during press conference after their meeting in Warsaw, Poland, February 23,...

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In Rwanda, Criticism is Not Welcome

Click to expand Image Kigali, Rwanda, September 5, 2019. © The Rwandan government’s decision to block Human Rights Watch senior researcher Clémentine de Montjoye from entering the country this month...

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Filipino Priest Who Defied Duterte Passes Away

Click to expand Image Filipino Catholic priest Father Amado Picardal in Manila, Philippines, May 13, 2016. © 2016 Aaron Favila/AP Photo Fr. Amado Picardal, a Redemptorist priest who exposed killings...

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EU: Include Civil Society in Anti-Deforestation Task Force

Click to expand Image Indigenous groups protest deforestation of their ancestral rainforests in Miri, Sarawak, October 2020. © 2020 The Borneo Project (Brussels, May 31, 2024) – The European...

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Focus on Rights in Pre-COP29 Climate Talks

Click to expand Image Protesters rally in support of climate activist Deanna "Violet" Coco, who was sentenced to jail for helping to block the Sydney Harbour Bridge, outside the Downing Centre court...

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Hong Kong: Quash Baseless Convictions of Activists

Click to expand Image On January 6, 2021, Hong Kong police arrested 53 pro-democracy politicians for “subversion” because they had organized or participated in an unofficial public opinion poll in...

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UN Body Recommends New Treaty on Older People’s Rights

Click to expand Image Advocates for the rights of older people -- Elisha, from Tanzania (left), and Amarsanaa, from Mongolia -- attend the Open Ended Working Group on Ageing in New York, December...

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US Imposes Sanctions on Ex-Ugandan Military Commander

Click to expand Image Then-Brig. Gen. Peter Elwelu of Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces gives an interview at Mbarara military base, Uganda, on February 7, 2014. © 2014 Isaac Kasmani/AFP via Getty Images...

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