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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...
View ArticleKenya-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...
View ArticleZimbabwe 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...
View ArticlePakistan: 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...
View ArticleUkraine: 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...
View ArticleUN 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...
View ArticlePanama 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...
View ArticleUK 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,...
View ArticleUzbekistan: 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...
View ArticleCentral 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...
View ArticleTunisia: 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...
View ArticleFederico 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...
View ArticleEuropean 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,...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleFilipino 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...
View ArticleEU: 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...
View ArticleFocus 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...
View ArticleHong 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...
View ArticleUN 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...
View ArticleUS 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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