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China: Free Imprisoned Taiwan Publisher
Click to expand Image Taiwan publisher Fu Cha. Private (Taipei) โ TheChinese authorities should urgently quash the conviction and free theTaiwan publisher Li Yanhe (ๆๅปถ่ณ), known by his pen name Fu Cha (ๅฏๅฏ), Human Rights Watch said today. Fu Cha, who has been detained in China since 2023, was secretly sentenced in February 2025 to three years in prison on charges of โinciting secession.โ The government has provided...
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:
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Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:Sustainable Futures of Contraception and the Role of Men
For decades, the burden of birth control has largely fallen on women. But emerging technologies suggest a future where men, too, could take contraceptives. Could this shift lead to sustainable contraceptives?
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:Romania: Dangerous Rollback of Reproductive Rights
Click to expand Image A woman holds a banner that reads "Abortion is an essential public health service" at a rally on International Women's Day, in Bucharest, Romania, March 8, 2023. 2023 AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru The sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls, including the right to abortion and family planning methods, have been significantly eroded in Romania.Romanian authorities are not only...
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:Saudi Arabia: Dozens Freed But Arrests Continue
Click to expand Image Mohammed al-Qahtani (R), Muhammad al-Ghamdi (C-R), Asaad al-Ghamdi (C-L), and Salma al-Shehab. Private (Beirut)โ Saudi authorities have released dozens of people serving long prison terms for peacefully exercising their rights yet continue to imprison and arbitrarily detain many more, Human Rights Watch said today.Between December 2024 and February 2025, Saudi authorities released at least 44...
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:US Health Funding Freeze Harms Low-Income Households
Click to expand Image Protestors gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court as oral arguments are delivered in the case of Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic in Washington D.C., April 2, 2025. 2025 Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images On Tuesday, the Trump administration froze federal funding for several organizations across the United States that provide lifesaving cervical cancer screenings, contraception, family...
Published on: April 05, 2025 | Source:The Lonely Death of a Rwandan General
Click to expand Image Brigadier General Frank Rusagara arrives at the court to appeal their 2016 conviction on charges including tarnishing the governmentโs image and inciting insurrection, in Kigali, Rwanda, on December 27, 2019. 2019 Clement Uwiringiyimana/Reuters Retired Brig. Gen. Frank Rusagara died last week inRwanda. He had spent11 years behind bars, without being allowed to speak to his wife, who died in the...
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:EU Should Defend the ICC
Click to expand Image International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, April 30, 2024. 2024 Peter Dejong/AP Photo Update: The list of signatories, updated on Thursday, April 10, now includes 69 organizations.(Brussels) โ The European Union should defend the International Criminal Court (ICC) amid serious attacks on its mandate and mission, 58 nongovernmental groups said today. These attacks could undermine...
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Higher Education Unions Mobilize to โKill the Cutsโ
This spring looks to be a season of high mobilization by labor unions and civil society. For higher education unions alone, two rounds of demonstrations are slated for April.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:Niger Juntaโs Release of Detainees Falls Short
Click to expand Image Former Niger President Mohamed Bazoum at the Elysee Palace in Paris, February 16, 2023. 2023 Michel Euler/AP Photo This week, Nigerโs military junta released about 50 people from prison, including several former government officials, military officers, and a journalist who had been arrested following the July 2023 coup. Several others still languish behind bars on politically motivated charges,...
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:How the UN Sustainable Development Goals Can Advance Racial Equity
What do the United Nationsโ sustainable development goals have to do with advancing equity goals? More than you might think. Here are some stories from the field.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:How Our Public Pension Dollars Can Advance Climate Justice
Public pension funds have more than $6 trillion in assets, over $500 billion in California alone. These dollars can be mobilized to support climate justiceโif they are so used.
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:South Korea Court Removes President Yoon from Office
Click to expand Image People celebrate after the Constitutional Court's ruling to remove President Yoon from office, near Anguk Station, Seoul, South Korea, on April 4, 2025. 2025 Rainbow Action Korea (New York) โ The Constitutional Court of Korea ruled on April 4, 2025, to uphold the impeachment of South Koreaโs president, Yoon Suk-yeol, and remove him from office for imposing martial law on December 3, 2024.Yoon and...
Published on: April 04, 2025 | Source:German Proposal to Strip Citizenship Endangers Human Rights
Click to expand Image A citizen shows their German and Azerbaijani passports in support of legal recognition for dual citizenship, Berlin, Germany, June 27, 2024. 2024 Jens Kalaene/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo A leaked paper reveals that Germanyโs conservative political parties, the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), want to add a clause to Germanyโs Nationality Law to allow the country...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Iran: UN Expands Investigations into Rights Violations
Click to expand Image Overview during the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, February 26, 2024. 2024 Janine Schmitz/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (Geneva) โ The United Nations Human Rights Councilโs adoption of a resolution to continuethe Fact-Finding Mission on Iran and significantly broaden the scope of its investigations is a crucial step for tackling the deepening crisis of impunity in Iran,...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Whatโs at Stake with Threatened Federal Cuts to CDFIs?
A Trump administration executive order threatens community development financial institution funding.
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Kemba Smith Pradia Remains Committed to Criminal Justice Reform
The Trump administration presents hurdles for those working on criminal justice reform, but advocates, particularly those who have been directly impacted by the criminal justice system, are committed to pushing for change.
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:The Legal Landscape of DEI: A Conversation with Jill Habig
How should nonprofits navigate the new DEI landscape?
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:States Take Steps Toward Reforming Economic Approaches with Rights
Click to expand Image The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, June 13, 2022. 2022 Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP Photo On April 3, theUnited Nations Human Rights Council adopted by consensus a resolution about โthe realization in all countries of economic, social and cultural rightsโ. This yearโs text focuses on the importance of development financing in fulfilling these rights.The...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:UN: Treaty on Older Peopleโs Rights Moves Ahead
Click to expand Image The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, June 13, 2022. 2022 Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP Photo (Geneva, April 3, 2025) โ TheUnited Nations Human Rights Council on April 3, 2025, began an intergovernmental process to draft an international human rights treaty on older people, Human Rights Watch said today. The consensus resolution is an important victory for human...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:US: End Campaign of Draconian Campus Arrests
Click to expand Image Pro-Palestinian student protesters at a demonstration at Columbia University on the third day of "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" in New York, US, April 19, 2024. 2024 Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images (Washington, DC) โ The US government should end its sweeping effort to arbitrarily arrest and deport international students and scholars in retaliation for their political viewpoints and activism...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Argentina: Abusive Response to Protest
A riot police officer shoots a tear gas canister at protesters during a demonstration of pensioners calling for improvements to their pensions and access to free medicines, among other demands, in Buenos Aires on March 12, 2025. LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images (Washington, DC) โArgentine authorities should investigate security forcesโ use of force to confront a protest led by pensioners and review an โanti-protestโ...
Published on: April 03, 2025 | Source:Burkina Fasoโs Relentless Crackdown on Dissent, Media
Click to expand Image A screenshot of the list of individuals โactively wanted for criminal association in relation to a terrorist enterpriseโ published by Burkinabe security minister on April, 1, 2025. The list includes prominent critics of the junta, April 1, 2025. 2025 MATDS Burkina Faso/Facebook โI rose through the ranks!โ joked Maixent Somรฉ, an exiled Burkinabรจ activist and critic of the country's military junta...
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:How TIFs Impact Racial and Economic Justice at the Local Level
Tax increment financing is one of the most common economic development local financing tools around. Unfortunately, its economic and racial justice impacts are highly negative. This must change.
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:How to Hold Dollar Store Chains Accountable and Protect Communities
The US South is home to many stores in the nationโs growing dollar store retail networks. Achieving economic justice for these workers is a vital movement task.
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:New Risks from Latest Scheme under Italy-Albania Immigration Deal
Click to expand Image A member of the Italian Army stands in front of an immigration detention camp built by Italy in Gjader, Albania, October 11, 2024. 2024 Florion Goga/Reuters After building immigration facilities in Albania that now stand empty, the Italian government has decided to turn one of them into an offshore detention center. But this will only replicate the problems already seen in detention centers...
Published on: April 02, 2025 | Source:Hungary: Arrest, Donโt Welcome ICC Fugitive Netanyahu
Click to expand Image Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, is welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, July 19, 2018. 2018 Debbie Hill/AP Photo (Washington, DC) โHungaryshould deny entry to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or arrest him if he enters the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Netanyahuโs office announcedthat he is planning to travel toHungaryon April 2,...
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Japan Makes High School Education Free โ Again
Click to expand Image A Tokyo public high school corridor. 2023 Bede Sheppard / Human Rights Watch Japanโs parliament, the Diet,voted this week to make public high school free for all children. Tuition fees had been abolished in 2010, but then reinstated in 2013.The new measure, approved in the budget, will expand equal opportunity in education, and should increase education access and certainty for children of...
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:On the Frontlines: Lessons from New Yorkโs Immigrant Defense Project
As nonprofits, mutual aid groups, and activist movements across the country mobilize to protect migrants and immigrants, the Immigrant Defense Project shares lessons and strategies.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Germanyโs Social Democrats Should Defend EU Supply Chains Laws
Click to expand Image Bangladesh Federation of Worker Solidarity activists hold a rally in Dhaka on May 7, 2023 to mark ten years since the Rana Plaza building collapse that killed more than 1,130 people. 2023 Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via AP Twelve years ago this April, the Rana Plaza factory building in Bangladesh collapsed,killing more than 1,100 garment workers and injuring more than 2,000 in one of the largest...
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Myanmar: Allow Immediate Aid to Quake-Stricken Areas
Click to expand Image Medical workers transport an earthquake casualty at a hospital in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, on March 28, 2025. 2025 SAI AUNG MAIN/AFP via Getty Images (Bangkok) โMyanmarโs military junta should allow immediate unfettered access to humanitarian aid for earthquake survivors and lift restrictions that impede the emergency response, Human Rights Watch said today. Since the earthquake struck at 12:50 p.m....
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Karakalpak Lawyer Imprisoned in Uzbekistan Alleges Torture, Again
Click to expand Image Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov in the defendants' cage on the last day of his trial on charges related to the July 2022 protests in Nukus, the main city in Karakalpakstan, at a court in Bukhara, Uzbekistan on January 31, 2023. 2023 Eurasianet New allegations of ill-treatment and torture by Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, the wrongfully imprisoned Karakalpak blogger and lawyer, have emerged following a prison...
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Bridging the Gap: How AI and Tech Can Support Domestic Violence Advocacy
In response to the prevalence of domestic violence, technology activists in the United States and worldwide are leveraging generative artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots, even virtual reality (VR), to provide accessible, innovative solutions to help survivors where traditional resources may fall short.
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Backsliding on Landmines Endangers Civilian Lives
Click to expand Image A demining team from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine is clearing a large forest contaminated with landmines, booby traps, and unexploded ordnance in the Lyman Raion of Donetsk Oblast on February 12, 2025 in Donetsk Region, Ukraine. 2025 Pierre Crom/Getty Images Update: On April 1, 2025, Finlandโs prime minister announced that his government was preparing to withdraw from the Mine Ban...
Published on: April 01, 2025 | Source:Trans Refugees: What Trans People Need to Know About Finding Safety Abroad
The growing wave of anti-trans legislation in the United States has forced many transgender people to consider whether they can safely remain in the country. While some are preparing escape plans and exploring international relocation options, others face significant barriers that make leaving nearly impossible.
Published on: March 31, 2025 | Source: