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Another ‘Bridge Man’ in China Forcibly Disappeared
On April 15, 27-year-old Mei Shilin (梅世林) put up threebanners on an overpass outside Chengdu’s Chadianzi Metro Station in China’s southwestern Sichuan province. The banners stated: “There can be no national rejuvenation without political system reform”; “The people do not need a political party with unrestrained power”; and “China does not need anyone to show the way, democracy is the direction.” The authorities...
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:
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Yemen: US Strike Reportedly Kills, Injures Dozens of Migrants
(Beirut) –US forces struck a migrant detention center in Saada,Yemen, on April 28, 2025, reportedly killing over 68 civilians and injuring dozens more. Human Rights Watch verified avideo posted by the Houthi-run news channel, Al-Masirah, alsoverified by the newswire service Reuters, that showed migrants and asylum seekers dead and injured in the aftermath of the strike. Those killed and injured were reportedly all of...
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:Why Fashion Education Needs to Care About Climate Change
Students are deeply concerned with issues of climate change, but in fashion schools, those concerns aren’t being addressed.
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:How Nonprofits Manage MacKenzie Scott’s Mega-Gifts: What the Data Tell Us
MacKenzie Scott has delivered $19 billion in unrestricted grants to nonprofits since 2020. A new study allays fears that the large grants—with a median amount of $5 million—will lead nonprofits to adopt unsustainable spending patterns.
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:US: Human Rights Role in Foreign Policy at Risk
Click to expand Image US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn in by Vice President JD Vance near the White House in Washington, DC, January 21, 2025. 2025 AP Photo/Evan Vucci (Washington, DC) – The Trump administration’s new US State Department structure may further hamstring rights and justice-related work, with programming already decimated by foreign aid cuts, Human Rights Watch said today. The...
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:Israel must end its unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory
Peace Direct has signed on to a joint statement led by Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), joining several other humanitarian, human rights, and peacebuilding organisations in calling for urgent action to end the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The post Israel must end its unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory appeared first on Peace Direct.
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:When Academic Freedom Falls, Civil Society Is Next
Universities are raising the alarm about what they see as a campaign by the Trump administration to assert political control over higher education. Advocates for nonprofit and academic freedom have pointed out these actions could serve as a precursor to using the same tactics against other nonprofit organizations.
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:Jordan: Informal Camp Residents Displaced
Click to expand Image Amman, Jordan, February 11, 2024. 2024 Alexis Jumeau/Abaca/Sipa via AP Photo (Amman) –Jordanian authorities have forcibly evicted and demolished homes and shops in an informal Palestinian refugee camp in Amman without adequate consultation, notice, compensation process, relocation assistance, or means of redress as part of a road expansion project, Human Rights Watch said today. More families are...
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:Myanmar: Junta Assault on Health Care Hinders Quake Response
Click to expand Image People clean debris from damaged buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake on March 28, in Naypydaw, Myanmar, April 7, 2025. 2025 AP Photo (Bangkok) – TheMyanmar military junta’syears of unlawful attacks on healthcare facilities and health workers have severely hindered theemergency response to the devastating earthquake on March 28, 2025, Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights said...
Published on: April 29, 2025 | Source:Liberia: Renew Mandate to Establish War Crimes Court
Click to expand Image A woman holds a placard during a peaceful demonstration in the Liberian capital Monrovia, July 4, 2006, calling on the visiting U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to establish a war Crimes court in Liberia as a means to bring justice to the country. 2006 REUTERS/Christopher Herwig (Monrovia) – Liberian President Joseph Boakai should follow through on his commitment to justice and human rights by...
Published on: April 28, 2025 | Source:How the Climate Crisis Impacts People Who Are Unhoused
Climate change disproportionately impacts the unhoused, while disasters drive more and more people into precarity. Here’s what nonprofits can do.
Published on: April 28, 2025 | Source:Building Rural Black Political Power: A Conversation with Kristin Powell
In this conversation with NPQ, Kristin Powell discusses how Black Futures Lab organizes rural Black communities through long-term deep canvassing.
Published on: April 28, 2025 | Source:Liberatory Leadership: A Transformative Model for a Changing World
A new NPQ series on liberatory leadership as a practice begins with an introduction to the framework.
Published on: April 28, 2025 | Source:Former Maryland Governor Calls on States to Place Trump Officials on Trial
How can nonprofits and activists respond to the rising threat of authoritarianism? A former Maryland governor calls on states to hold Trump officials criminally liable.
Published on: April 28, 2025 | Source:‘Killer Robots’ Threaten Human Rights During War, Peace
Click to expand Image 2025 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch (New York, April 28, 2025) – Autonomous weapons systems pose grave risks to human rights during both war and peacetime, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Governments should tackle the concerns raised by such weapons systems, known as “killer robots,” by negotiating a multinational treaty to address the dangers. April 28, 2025 A Hazard...
Published on: April 28, 2025 | Source:Without DOJ Funding, Community Violence Intervention Programs Face Uncertainty
Among the groups impacted by the recent massive loss of Department of Justice funding are community violence intervention programs that use a public health framework to address gun violence.
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:Federal Jobs, Science, and Anti-Intellectualism: Climate Scientists Speak Out
Behind climate change skepticism lies a deeper challenge—a growing contempt for knowledge and science. This is not a new trend in US society, but it is intensifying.
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:Nonprofits Need Equity Too: The Case for Providing “Enterprise Capital”
Standard foundation funding is either project-specific or, at best, given as annual operational grants. By contrast, a lump-sum, multiyear investment allows nonprofits to plan and build.
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:Maldives: Judiciary’s Independence Threatened
Click to expand Image The Supreme Court of the Maldives in Male, February 7, 2018. 2018 Kyodo via AP Photo (Bangkok) – TheMaldives government should immediately reinstate three Supreme Court justices who were improperly suspended and cease other efforts to undermine judicial independence, Human Rights Watch said today. The three justices had until April 24, 2025, to respond to a Maldives Judicial Service Commission...
Published on: April 25, 2025 | Source:Insurgents in Southern Thailand Kill 16-Year-Old Buddhist Novice
Click to expand Image Buddhist monks mark the Songkran celebrations at Wat Pho temple in Bangkok, Thailand, April 13, 2025. 2025 Anusak Laowilas/NurPhoto via AP Photo Ethnic Malay Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand shot dead Pongkorn Chumapan, 16, and wounded Pokanit Morasin, 12, on Tuesday when they attacked a pickup truck taking Buddhist monks and novices from Wat Kura temple to collect alms in Songkhla province...
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:EU: New Law Requires Companies to Tackle Forced Labor
Click to expand Image European Union flags wave in the wind as pedestrians walk by EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. 2023 AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File The European Union’s newForced Labor Regulation will require companies to identify and eliminate forced labor in their operations and supply chains, Human Rights Watch and the Cornell Global Labor Institute (GLI) said today, releasing a...
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:Impact of International Aid Cuts on African Communities
Cuts to USAID could trigger widespread humanitarian disasters, cripple healthcare systems, increase global instability, and diminish US influence abroad.
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:Gender Equality Advocates Advance Pay Equity at State Level
Advocates are achieving gains in pay equity, pay transparency, and salary disclosure at the state level.
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:What the Supreme Court’s Standing Ruling Means for Nonprofit Litigation
A recent Supreme Court ruling didn’t just reject a lawsuit—it redrew the map for how nonprofits can challenge actions of the federal government, making a major statement about who is allowed to bring such cases to court.
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:New Peru Legislation Threatens Disability Rights
Click to expand Image A view of the Congress building in Lima, Peru, September 17, 2018. REUTERS/Guadalupe Pardo Having a disability should never result in a person being denied freedom. Yet across Latin America, thousands of people with disabilities are still forcibly institutionalized, often from a young age, with little control over their lives. A newamendment to Peru’s General Law on Persons with Disabilities...
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:US: Trump’s First 100 Days an Assault on Rights
Click to expand Image Protestors hold signs as they march towards the White House during a Free Kilmar Abrego and a nationwide "Hands Off!" protest against US President Donald Trump's policies and executive actions, in Washington, DC, April 19, 2025. 2025 RICHARD PIERRIN/AFP via Getty Images (Washington, DC) – The Trump administration’s first 100 days in office have been a relentless barrage of actions that violate,...
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:US/Panama: Mass Expulsion of Third-Country Nationals
Asylum seekers embrace upon arriving in Panama City, Panama on March 8, 2025. They had just been released from an immigration reception station in the Darién region of Panama after being expelled from the US. 2025 AP Photo/Matias Delacroix The United States carried out mass expulsions of 299 third-country nationals to Panama, subjecting them to harsh detention conditions and mistreatment, while also denying due...
Published on: April 24, 2025 | Source:COP30 Should Deliver Bold Action on Climate and Rights
Click to expand Image Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announces investments at Parque da Cidade, the venue that will host the activities of the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 30) in Belem, Para State, Brazil, February 14, 2025. 2025 Agencia Estado via AP Photo Today, Human Rights Watch sent a letter to André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30)...
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:FIFA Has No Child Safeguarding Policy for 2026 World Cup
Click to expand Image FIFA World Cup Trophy is displayed at Lumen Field in Seattle, Washington, US, July 28, 2024. 2024 Alika Jenner/FIFA via Getty Images In two months, the FIFA Club World Cup, an international football tournament for club teams, will kick off in the United States, serving as a testing ground for the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup next year. But FIFA has inexcusably not put a clear and comprehensive child...
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Australia: Parties Address Human Rights Issues
Click to expand Image Parliament House of Australia in Canberra, March 20, 2024. 2024 George Chan/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Photo (Sydney) – Voters in the upcoming Australian election on May 3, 2025, should consider where political candidates stand on key human rights issues, Human Rights Watch said today. Before casting their ballots, voters should weigh the candidates’ commitments to respecting, protecting and...
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Australia 2025 Election Questionnaire
Below is a question-by-question compilation of responses by the Australian Labor Party (ALP), the Liberal National Coalition and the Australian Greens. The Liberal National Coalition did not respond under each individual question but responded under relevant thematic subheadings. Human Rights Watch has matched their responses to the questions.Human Rights LegislationAustralia is the only Western democracy without a...
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Banking and Community: A Conversation with Oscar Perry Abello
Community banks play a vital role in supporting community investing. By strengthening local banks, local communities can generate more equitable economic outcomes.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Standing Strong: Native CDFIs Mobilize to Protect Economic Sovereignty
In March, Native CDFIs—like all CDFIs—faced threats from a Trump administration executive order. Advocacy was successful, but the struggle for Native sovereignty continues.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Why Communities Must Reclaim the Power of Banking
Big banks didn’t always dominate finance. The fact that they now do has reduced local community investment. Restoring community banking could help remedy that.
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source:Lebanon: Indiscriminate Israeli Attacks on Civilians
Click to expand Image Destruction from an Israeli airstrike on September 25, 2024, in Younine, Lebanon. 2024 Human Rights Watch Two unlawful Israeli strikes on the northeastern Lebanese town of Younine between September and November 2024 were apparent indiscriminate attacks on civilians.More and more evidence is emerging that Israeli forces repeatedly failed to protect civilians or adequately distinguish civilians...
Published on: April 23, 2025 | Source: