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South Africa Should Address Violence Against Children
Click to expand Image People protesting against the abuse of girls, Durban, South Africa, April 1, 2025. 2025 Rajesh Jantilal/AFP via Getty Images As South Africa commemorates Child Protection Week, an annual campaign to raise awareness about the safety and wellbeing of children, a recent spate of violent attacks highlights how children in the country are still often left unprotected.Despite legislation that protects...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:
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Armeniaβs Justice System Excludes Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities
Click to expand Image The Criminal Court of Appeal building in Yerevan, Armenia, July 12, 2018. 2018 Asatur Yesayants/Sputnik via AP Photo Vahagn Petrosyan was 36 years old when a court stripped him of his legal capacity in September 2015, claiming his psychosocial disability prevented him from being able to make his own decisions. For years he endured neglect and violence in institutions, without the right to control...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Australia Extends License for Nationβs Biggest Fossil Fuel Project
Click to expand Image Save Our Songlines protesters march near the site of the North West Shelf oil and gas project in 2022. 2022 Save Our Songlines Last week, the Australian governmentannounced it had given preliminary approval for the countryβs biggest fossil fuel project, the North West Shelf Project, to continue operations until 2070. The facility, on Western Australiaβs Burrup Peninsula, is the country's largest...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:What Does Centering Native Justice Require? A New Report Has Answers
A new report offers a deep dive into Native conceptions of justice, how existing injustice affects Native communities, and how these injustices can be remedied.
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Should For-Profit Corporations Exist?
The for-profit corporation is arguably the single most important institution in society today, yet we rarely ask ourselves if it has overstayed its usefulness. We should.
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Yemen: US Strikes on Port an Apparent War Crime
Click to expand Image Burned vehicles near Ras Issa port in Hodeidah, Yemen following US strikes on April 17, 2025. Photo taken on April 18, 2025. 2025 AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) β US military strikes on the Ras Issa Port in Hodeidah, Yemen, on April 17, 2025, caused dozens of civilian casualties and significant damage to port infrastructure, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack should be investigated as a war...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Sudan: Armed Forces Airstrikes in South Darfur
Click to expand Image Photograph shared by a Nyala resident on February 6, 2025, shows the destroyed building at the location of a February 3 airstrike near the Mecca Eye Hospital in Nyala, South Darfur. Private The Sudanese Armed Forces killed scores of civilians in attacks that used unguided air-dropped bombs on residential and commercial neighborhoods in Nyala, South Darfur in early February.These attacks were...
Published on: June 04, 2025 | Source:Federal Court Allows Jackson, Mississippi Discrimination Claims to Proceed
Click to expand Image Sen. Josh Harkins, R-Flowood (R), reacts as Sen. John Horhn, D-Jackson (L), purposes amendments that would affect Harkins' proposed legislation that would shift control of the Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport to state officials and surrounding counties, March 3, 2016, in Senate chambers at the Capitol in Jackson, Mississippi. 2016 Rogelio V. Solis/AP Photo A federal courthas...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:TΓΌrkiye: Free Turkmen Activist; Halt Deportation
Click to expand Image Turkmen activist Umidajan Bekchanova. 2025 Private (Berlin, June 3, 2025) β Turkish authorities should immediately release Umidajan Bekchanova, a Turkmen dissident currently held in a deportation center in Istanbul, Human Rights Watch said today. They should guarantee that Bekchanova is not forcibly returned to Turkmenistan, where she faces a serious risk of persecution and abuse.βBekchanovaβs...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:China: Address Tiananmen Massacre 36 Years On
Click to expand Image Tiananmen Square. June 4th, 1989. 1989 Stuart Franklin/MAGNUM (New York) β Thirty-six years after the killing of countless peaceful pro-democracy protesters in Beijing, theChinese government still seeks to erase the memory of the June 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should cease censorship of the crackdown, allow commemorations, provide compensation to the...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Learning from a Near-Death Experience: How to Survive a Budget Crisis
At the Post Growth Institute, a budget crunch in late 2023 and early 2024 could have sunk us. Instead, we found in solidarity economics tools for surviving and thriving.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:DR Congo: Rwanda-backed M23 Executed Civilians in Goma
Click to expand Image M23 fighters at the Stade de l'UnitΓ© in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, February 6, 2025. 2025 ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) β TheRwanda-backed M23 armed group summarily executed at least 21 civilians and most likely many more in Goma, easternDemocratic Republic of Congo, on February 22-23, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today.The M23 has occupied Goma, the capital of North Kivu...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:ILO: Adopt Binding Treaty to Protect βGigβ Workers
Click to expand Image Opening Ceremony of the 113th International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, June 2, 2025. 2025 Violaine Martin / OIT (Geneva) β Governments and employersβ representatives at the International Labour Organization (ILO) conference should agree to a new treaty to protect βgigβ workers, 33 civil society groups, trade unions, and human rights organizations said today. The groups released a...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:US: Bans on Gender-Affirming Care Harm Trans Youth
Click to expand Image Lily, a 10-year-old trans girl, said she was devastated when her family felt forced to relocate to protect her from anti-trans hostility. 2025 Illustrations by Barrack Rima, Art directed by Studio Safar for Human Rights Watch Laws banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth in the United States are inflicting severe harm on young people and their families as well as health care systems...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Ukraine: Russia Using Drones to Attack Civilians
Click to expand Image 2025 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch In 2024, Russian drone strikes killed dozens of civilians and injured hundreds more in the city of Kherson, in apparently deliberate or reckless attacks that constitute war crimes.The attacks have the apparent purpose of instilling terror in the civilian population in Kherson, part of a widespread attack against that population.These attacks underscore the...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Niger: Six Month-Long Arbitrary Detention of Human Rights Defender Moussa Tiangari Must End
Click to expand Image Moussa Tiangari, Niamey, Niger, June 2024. 2024 Amnesty International (Nairobi) β Nigerβs authorities should immediately release civil society activist and human rights defender Moussa Tiangari and stop using terrorism-related charges to silence dissent,Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and the World Organisation Against Torture...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Israel, Yemen: Investigate Airport Attacks as War Crimes
Click to expand Image A Yemeni officer inspects the damage following Israeli airstrikes on Sanaa International Airport in Sanaa, Yemen, May 7, 2025. 2025 Osamah Abdulrahman/AP Photo (Beirut) β TheIsraeli airstrikes onYemenβs Sanaa International Airport on May 6 and May 28, 2025, were apparently unlawful indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks on civilian objects and should be investigated as war crimes, Human...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:The Digital Divide and Climate Disasters
Internet access is critical for disaster recovery. But is the solution broader than simply working to get underresourced areas better connected?
Published on: June 02, 2025 | Source:Justice Delayed in Central African Republic
Click to expand Image Joseph Figueira Martin in southern Mauritania in May 2022. 2022 Private Last week marked one year since Joseph Figueira Martin wasarrested in theCentral African Republic. The former analyst for the International Crisis Group wasarrested by Russian forces in Zemio, in the southeast, where he wasconducting research for FHI 360, an American organization aimed at reducing poverty, expanding economic...
Published on: June 02, 2025 | Source:Advocates Discuss How Best to Support the Autism Community
The Trump administration views autism as a disease to be cured. Autism advocates reject this false framingβand call for research and policy that supports their community.
Published on: June 02, 2025 | Source:Libya: Barriers to Justice
Click to expand Image A member of the Libyan judicial police guards detainees at a Misrata prison, Misrata, Libya, April 27, 2022. 2022 Sipa via AP Images Libyaβs fragmented justice sector is marred by serious due process violations and laws that violate international norms. The judiciary is unwilling and unable to meaningfully investigate serious crimes.Violations of the magnitude and persistence documented in Libya...
Published on: June 02, 2025 | Source:Gulf States: Protect Workers from Extreme Heat
Click to expand Image Construction workers in the Ahmadi Governorate in Kuwait, January 27, 2025. 2025 Xinhua/Shutterstock (Beirut) β Gulf Cooperation Council countries are exposing migrant workers to yet another deadly summer of extreme heat conditions without adequate protection, Human Rights Watch said today. The countries ignore thescientificevidence on the limitations of calendar-based midday work bans to shield...
Published on: June 01, 2025 | Source:Kyrgyzstan: Whistleblower Convicted for Exposing Corruption in Court System
Click to expand Image The Kyrgyzstan flag is raised at Ala-Too Square, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on March 3, 2022. 2022 Vladimir Voronin / AP (Bishkek, May 30, 2025) β AKyrgyz court onMay 27, 2025, convicted former National Academy of Sciences researcher and whistleblower,Zhoomart Karabaev, of βincitement of mass disorderβ and calling for disobedience to authorities, sentencing him to three yearsβ probation, Human...
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Shifting the Balance: Centering Local Leadership in Global Nonprofit Partnerships
In the nonprofit sector, international partnerships can achieve great things. Yet without a strong sense of ethics, such partnerships can often cause more harm than good.
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Human Rights Defenders Targeted in Uzbekistan
Earlier this month, Sharifa Madrakhimovaβs passport was tampered with and destroyed, preventing her from traveling abroad to accept an award honoring her work defending human rights in Uzbekistan. Shortly afterward, Abdurakhmon Tashanov, another prominent rights defender, was ordered to pay several thousand dollars in a civil defamation case for an innocuous Facebook post. Click to expand Image Sharifa Madrakhimova...
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:Yemen: A Year On, Houthis Should Free UN, Civil Society Staff
Click to expand Image The UN special envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, meets with local officials in Taizz, Yemen, February 12, 2024. (C) 2024 Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) β The de facto Houthi authorities inYemen should immediately and unconditionally release dozens of staff from the United Nations and Yemeni and international civil society organizations who were arbitrarily detained over the course of...
Published on: May 30, 2025 | Source:The arc of the moral universe: Reflecting on 5 years since the murder of George Floyd
Five years after the murder of George Floyd, our CEO, Dylan, reflects on how the world and Peace Direct has changed since. Exploring the duty we all have to continue to dismantle structures and systems built on racism. The post The arc of the moral universe: Reflecting on 5 years since the murder of George Floyd appeared first on Peace Direct.
Published on: May 29, 2025 | Source:Passage of GOP Tax Bill Would Worsen Medical Debt Crisis
As millions of people in the United States struggle with medical debt, the potential passage of the GOP tax bill could worsen the crisis.
Published on: May 29, 2025 | Source:A Liberatory Approach to Centering Race in Leadership
NPQβs series on Liberatory Leadership as a practice continues with asking ourselves why liberatory leadership matters for racial justice.
Published on: May 29, 2025 | Source:Know Your Farmer: Addressing the Heart of Food Insecurity in Kensington
Kensington, a neighborhood in North Philadelphia, is getting a fresh-produce corner store to tackle the lasting impacts of food apartheid.
Published on: May 29, 2025 | Source:How to File a Temporary Restraining Order Against the Trump Administration
As nonprofits, including climate groups, fall under attack, can a temporary restraining order be a solution to stall the Trump administration?
Published on: May 29, 2025 | Source:Thailand: New Insurgent Attacks on Civilians Despite Pledge
Click to expand Image Thailand's commander of the 4th Army Region Lt. Gen. Paisan Nusang (C) and officials inspect the site of an insurgent attack outside the district office of Sungai Kolok in the southern Thailand province of Narathiwat on March 9, 2025. 2025 Madree Tohala/AFP via Getty Images (Bangkok, May 29, 2025) β Separatist insurgents in Thailandβs southern border provinces should uphold their pledge and...
Published on: May 29, 2025 | Source:Indonesia: Renewed Fighting Threatens West Papua Civilians
Click to expand Image Villagers fleeing fighting between the Indonesian military and the West Papuan militants to Sugapa, the capital of Intan Jaya regency. 2025 Suara Papua (New York, May 29, 2025) β An escalation in fighting between Indonesian security forces and Papuan separatist armed groups in West Papua has seriously threatened the security of the largely Indigenous population, Human Rights Watch said today. All...
Published on: May 29, 2025 | Source:Ministerial Taskforce Should Speak Up on School-Related Sexual Violence
Click to expand Image Secondary school girls in a classroom in a middle secondary school in SΓ©dhiou, southern Senegal. Photo by Elin MartΓnez. 2017 Human Rights Watch Every day, children are subjected to various forms of violence, including humiliating, degrading and deeply harmful acts, in and around schools, often by the very teachers and education personnel who should be protecting them. In many contexts, students...
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source:European Commission Endorses Exporting Asylum Seekers
Click to expand Image Officers from the German Federal Police take a man on a deportation flight to Pakistan. Frankfurt, February 25, 2025. 2025 Boris Roessler/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo The European Commission has publisheda proposal that would allow EU member states to send asylum seekers to countries with which they have no connection, on the basis of procedures with limited safeguards and illusory promises of...
Published on: May 28, 2025 | Source: