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Syria: Türkiye-backed Armed Groups Detain, Extort Civilians
Click to expand Image The Syrian National Army (SNA) forces around the Tishrin Dam in the southeastern district in Aleppo, January 18, 2025. 2025 Huseyin Nasir/Anadolu via Getty Images (Beirut, May 14, 2025) – Syrian National Army (SNA) factions that fought the Assad government with backing fromTürkiye continue to detain, mistreat, and extort civilians in northernSyria, Human Rights Watch said today.These fighters are...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:
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Libya: ICC’s Role Critical for Justice
Click to expand Image Members meet for a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York City, July 17, 2023. 2023 Spencer Platt/Getty Images (New York) – TheInternational Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor’s upcoming briefing to theUnited Nations Security Council onLibya highlights the court’s critical role to deliver justice in the country amid ongoing efforts to undermine its global mandate, Human Rights Watch...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Maldives: Communities Lack Equitable Access to Water
Click to expand Image Bottled water is loaded onto a boat for delivery to another island in Malé, Maldives, December 18, 2019. 2019 Carl Court/Getty Images Marginalized island communities in the Maldives affected by climate change face limited access to water because of inadequate government consultations, poor monitoring, and economic barriers.The Maldives government should ensure that its climate adaptation efforts...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:South Korea: Candidates Should Express Views on Rights
Click to expand Image An official demonstrates the ballot counting process using a ballot sorting machine during a simulation of the presidential election voting and counting procedures at South Korea's National Election Commission, April 10, 2025. 2025 Kim Jae-Hwan / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Photo (Seoul) –South Korea’s three major political parties have an opportunity to present their views on key human...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Nepali Lesbians Harassed While Registering Marriage
Click to expand Image The Supreme Court of Nepal in Kathmandu. Supreme Court of Nepal After two years together, Ramita and Shilu—both pseudonyms to protect their identities—traveled to Sindhuli this month to register their marriage under Nepal’s June 2023 Supreme Court ruling which allows for same-sex marriages. But instead of recognition, the couplereportedly faced harassment, delays, rejection, and were forcibly...
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:Why the Threats Against Nonprofit Tax Status Are Unprecedented
History shows that Trump isn’t the first US president to threaten to revoke a nonprofit’s tax-exempt status, but it is unique that he is doing it at a time when so many other federal resources are also being revoked.
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:How Are Foundations Responding to Federal Cuts?
Philanthropic groups and nonprofit organizations are navigating the lack of resources from the federal government. As philanthropy tries to fill the gap, nonprofit groups struggle to make ends meet.
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:Tax Provision Would Give Trump Administration Unilateral Power to Strip Nonprofit Status
Nonprofit leaders are raising alarms over various provisions included in new GOP-led tax legislation, including one that would grant unilateral power to the US treasury secretary to deem a nonprofit to be a “terrorist supporting organization.”
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:South Sudan: 3 Years On, No Justice for Abuses in Southern Unity
Click to expand Image The remains of burnt homes in the town of Adok in Leer county, South Sudan. Photo taken in May 2022. 2022 Human Rights Watch South Sudan’s authorities have not brought to justice those responsible for attacks on civilians three years ago by government forces and allied militias in Leer and other opposition-controlled areas in southern Unity state.The lack of meaningful justice for the most...
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:2025 Human Rights Roadmap for the African Union
Click to expand Image African heads of state attend the 37th Ordinary session of the African Union Summit at the Union's headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 17, 2024. 2024 AP Photo On March 13, 2025, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf took office as the new African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson, the AU’s chief executive officer and legal representative, following his election at the 38th AU summit in mid-February....
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:We Belong Here: How Immigrants Are Organizing and How Allies Can Help
In the face of repression, immigrants are organizing. Through education and leadership development, and by building community, immigrants in Oregon refuse to be intimidated.
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:When Can Volunteers Lead?
Many nonprofit staff members serve as volunteer board members at other nonprofits. And most nonprofit boards are made up of volunteers. How can these volunteer board members lead effectively?
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Nepal: Ensure Credible Transitional Justice Appointments
Click to expand Image Nepalese human rights activists and relatives point to photographs of disappeared persons at an event to mark the International Day of the Disappeared, in Kathmandu, August 30, 2011. 2011 AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha (Geneva) – TheNepal government should urgently heed the demands of conflict victims and amend the process for appointing commissioners to the country’s two transitional justice bodies,...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Holy See: Review Vatican-China Agreement
Click to expand Image The new Pope Leo XIV on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025. 2025 Domenico Stinellis/AP Photo (London) – The new Pope, Leo XIV, should direct an urgent review of theVatican’s 2018 agreement with theChinese government that allows Beijing to appoint bishops for government-approved houses of worship, Human Rights Watch said today. He should also press the...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:US: Major Companies Violate Gig Workers’ Rights
Click to expand Image 2025 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – Major digital labor platforms, also known as gig companies, operating in theUnited States misclassify gig workers as independent contractors, denying them labor rights, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.The 155-page report, “‘The Gig Trap’: Algorithmic, Wage and Labor Exploitation in Platform Work in the US” focuses on...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Syria: New Government Restricts Aid Operations
Click to expand Image Syrian port workers move on a truck carrying goods at the port of Latakia, Syria, December 17, 2024. 2024 Leo Correa/AP Photo (Beirut) – The Syrian transitional government’s stringent application of registration and operational requirements on aid groups is hampering their ability to scale up operations, Human Rights Watch said today. While the authorities have signaled a willingness to engage...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Burkina Faso: Army Directs Ethnic Massacres
Click to expand Image The village of Mahouna in western Burkina Faso, March 18, 2022. 2022 Mapillary (Nairobi) – TheBurkina Faso army led and participated in the massacre of more than 130, possibly many more, ethnic Fulani civilians by pro-government militias in the western Boucle du Mouhoun region in March 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. Mass killings of civilians by government security forces, militias, and...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source:Vietnam: End Persecution of Human Rights Activist
Click to expand Image Trinh Ba Phuong. Private (Bangkok) – TheVietnamese authorities should immediately release the prominent human rights activist Trinh Ba Phuong and drop all charges against him, Human Rights Watch said today.In April 2025, the authorities in Quang Nam provincecharged Trinh Ba Phuong under article 117 of the penal code with anti-state propaganda. He was already serving a 10-year prison sentence...
Published on: May 10, 2025 | Source:Mali Opposition Politicians Feared Forcibly Disappeared
Click to expand Image People protesting the junta's decision to ban political parties at the Palais de la Culture in Bamako, Mali, April 29, 2025. 2025 Private In Mali on Thursday, two political opposition leaders went missing, sparking fears they may have been forcibly disappeared.Abba Alhassane, 68, is the secretary general of the opposition party Convergence for the Development of Mali (Convergence pour le...
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:Beyond Wishful Thinking: How to Build Lasting Youth Political Infrastructure
Can young people in the United States be at the center of a movement for multiracial democracy? Yes, but only if there is investment in long-term political infrastructure.
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:A Board’s Bold Leap: Radical Change and the Power of Trust
To combat the natural pull toward the familiar, a courageous board embraced radical change to sustain their mission—made possible by deep trust between its CEO and board chair.
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:UK: Court Ruling Threatens Trans People
Click to expand Image People from trans rights groups and community organizations take part in a rally following the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman in equalities law. 2025 Lesley Martin/AP Images (London) – A United Kingdom Supreme Court ruling on April 16, 2025, threatens the rights of trans people, Human Rights Watch said today. In For Women Scotland v. The Scottish Ministers, the court ruled...
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:Belarus: Political Retaliation against Businesses
Click to expand Image The headquarters of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland, June 15, 2021. 2021 Sean Gallup/Getty Images (Berlin, May 9, 2025) – Belarusian authorities have retaliated against companies and their workers that supported peaceful anti-government protests or spoke out about human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said today. They also targeted exiled Belarusian...
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:US: Don’t Forcibly Transfer Migrants to Libya
Click to expand Image Men at a detention center in Tripoli, Libya, June 8, 2017. 2017 Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images (New York) – TheUnited States should not forcibly transfer migrants toLibya, where inhumane detention conditions are well-documented, including torture, ill-treatment, sexual assault, and unlawful killings, Human Rights Watch said today. Based onnumerous mediareports citing US officials,...
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:Sweden Should Stop Detaining and Deporting Sex Workers
Click to expand Image People demonstrate in support of sex workers, April 14, 2018. 2018 Alain Apaydin/Sipa via AP Images So far this year, police in Sweden have detained at least 13 women—including several foreign nationals, some who were subsequently deported—allegedly because they are sex workers, according to a news report. However, selling sex is not a crime in Sweden.The actual number of such cases may be...
Published on: May 09, 2025 | Source:Social Media Companies Should Resist Turkish State Censorship
Click to expand Image People check their phones at a market in central Istanbul, Türkiye, July 18, 2019. 2019 AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti As of Thursday morning, internet users in Türkiye can no longer access the Turkish-language X account ofjailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. This comes after a Turkish court arbitrarily ordered X to block the account, which has 9.7 million followers. Though X initially complied, the...
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source:Indonesian Court Restricts Criminal Defamation Lawsuits
Click to expand Image Daniel Tangkilisan (C), the environmentalist who filed the petition, and Todung Mulya Lubis (L-C) and other lawyers from the LSM law firm, at Indonesia’s Constitutional Court in Jakarta, April 29, 2025. 2025 LSM Law Firm In an important step towards protecting online speech, Indonesia’s Constitutional Court on April 29 issued two rulings thatprovide important clarifications to the country’s...
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source:Justice Vital for Durable Peace in Africa’s Great Lakes Region
Click to expand Image Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner (L), US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C), and Foreign Minister of Rwanda Olivier Nduhungirehe, signing the Declaration of Principles at the US State Department, Washington, DC, April 25, 2025. 2025 Graeme Sloan/Sipa via AP Photo United States-led efforts to end the current armed conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes...
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source:For Mother’s Day, Ugandan Moms of LGBT People Speak Out
Play Video (Nairobi)– Ahead of a soon-to-be-released Human Rights Watch report examining the impact ofUganda’sdraconian Anti-Homosexuality Act on the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, a group of Ugandan mothers of LGBT people are gathering on May 8, 2025, to call for protection, dignity, and equal rights for their families, Human Rights Watch and Chapter Four Uganda said today.The...
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source:Toward a Purpose of Transformation: A Conversation with Dimple Abichandani
A conversation on transforming philanthropy with author and philanthropic leader Dimple Abichandani.
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source:Beyond Dialogue: Igniting Racial Justice in a Shifting Political Landscape
In Puerto Rico, Black philanthropic executives from the US mainland, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean came together to build a stronger international racial equity movement.
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source:Greece: Media Freedom in Crisis
Click to expand Image Newspapers hanging on a kiosk in the center of Athens, Greece on March 24, 2022. 2022 Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via AP The pervasive and deliberate constraints on journalism in Greece are creating an environment in which critical reporting is stifled, and self-censorship becomes the norm.Journalists face state surveillance, harassment, and intimidation by pro-government actors, and abusive...
Published on: May 08, 2025 | Source:Hong Kong: 87 Groups Condemn Arrests of Activist’s Relatives
Click to expand Image Anna Kwok, executive director of the Washington-based Hong Kong Democracy Council, at a rally in support of Hong Kong 47, Washington DC, November 19, 2024. 2024 May Yeung / SOPA Images/Sipa via AP Photo May 7, 2025 Joint Statement from Civil Society Groups on the Hong Kong Government’s Targeting of Exiled Activists’ Families (New York) – Hong Kong authorities’ unjust arrests of the father and...
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:Guatemala Announces Crucial Water Law Dialogue
Click to expand Image A woman collects water to drink from a well in Santa María Chiquimula municipality, Totonicapán department, Guatemala, March 11, 2025. 2025 Víctor Peña for Human Rights Watch Last week, the Guatemalan government initiateda participatory dialogue to inform the creation of a national water law, a crucial first step toward addressing the country’s water and sanitation crisis.Guatemala hasmore...
Published on: May 07, 2025 | Source:How Can a Perpetual Purpose Trust Build Community?
An emerging model known as a perpetual purpose trust is being used to develop community-owned affordable housing, businesses, and commercial property.
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