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Click to expand Image The European Commissioner for Democracy and Justice and the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection Michael Mcgrath at the meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs in the European Parliament an institution of the European Union in Brussels in Belgium, January 29, 2025. 2025 Martin Bertrand/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Today the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs voted to adopt its...
Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source:
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Reckoning with the History of Asian Diasporic Community Media
Diasporic community media journalism keeps immigrant communities informed about social and political issues in both their old and new homes. But it also contends directly with racism and imperialism, offering community-centered resources toward participatory democracy.
Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source:Trump Administration Defunds Fair Housing Police, Fires Two Whistleblowers
A federal whistleblower complaint reveals draconian cuts to fair housing enforcement. The two staff attorneys named on the complaint have both been dismissed.
Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source:Italy: End Border Control Pact with Libya
Click to expand Image Libyan Coast Guard patrol boat Ras Jadir intercepts a wooden boat in the Mediterranean Sea, July 30, 2021. 2021 David Lohmüller/Sea-Watch (Milan, October 13, 2025) – Italy should revoke its damaging migrant cooperation agreement with Libya, Human Rights Watch said today. The Italy-Libya Memorandum of Understanding on migration cooperation will renew automatically for three years on November 2,...
Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source:Lebanon: Seek Justice for Journalists Killed by Israeli Forces
Click to expand Image Reuters' journalist Issam Abdallah films an interview amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, April 17, 2022. 2022 Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters (Beirut) – Lebanon’s announcement on October 9, 2025, that it has tasked the Justice Ministry with assessing the legal measures that may be taken following Israeli attacks on journalists during the last war offers a fresh opportunity to...
Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source:EU: Crucial Hearing on Hungary’s Rule of Law Crisis
Click to expand Image A protester holds up an EU flag with "help" written on it, during a demonstration in Budapest on May 18, 2025 against a bill empowering the government to sanction civil society organizations and media it deems threats to the country's sovereignty. 2025 FERENC ISZA/AFP via Getty Images (Brussels, October 13, 2025)–European Union member states meeting on October 21 to discussHungary’s erosion of...
Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source:Two Burkina Faso Activists Unlawfully Conscripted are Released
Click to expand Image Burkina Faso soldiers patrol aboard a pickup truck on the road from Dori to the Goudebo refugee camp, on February 3, 2020. 2020 OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images Burkina Faso authorities on October 6 releasedRasmané Zinaba and Bassirou Badjo, two members of the civil society group Balai Citoyen, who had been unlawfully conscripted into military service after criticizing the country’s...
Published on: October 10, 2025 | Source:The EU’s Double Standard on Toxic Pesticides
Click to expand Image Herbicide is sprayed on a soybean field in the Cerrado plains near Campo Verde, Mato Grosso state, western Brazil. 2011 Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images Fifteen organizations including Human Rights Watchsent letters to European Union officials and lawmakers this week pressing the European Commission to follow through onits commitments to stop the export of pesticides that are banned in the...
Published on: October 10, 2025 | Source:Israel/Palestine: Microsoft Should Avoid Contributing to Rights Abuses
Click to expand Image A demonstrator holds a Palestinian flag during a protest at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington, US, August 19, 2025. 2025 David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images (New York, October 10, 2025) – Microsoft should suspend business activities that are contributing to grave human rights abuses and international crimes by the Israeli military and other Israeli government bodies, Human Rights...
Published on: October 10, 2025 | Source:As Trump Administration Aims to Silence Dissent, Nonprofits Must Respond
In the name of “national security,” a federal memorandum from the Trump administration targets nonprofit advocacy. Here are some steps nonprofits can take.
Published on: October 10, 2025 | Source:Premature Babies Must Be Connected to Life-Changing Therapies Under New Illinois Law
The bill was introduced after The Hechinger Report wrote about how too many fragile infants are missing out on federally mandated services.
Published on: October 10, 2025 | Source:Myanmar Military Paramotor Strike Kills, Injures Dozens
Click to expand Image A tourist paramotor in China. VCGPIX via AP Photo On Monday evening, Myanmar military paramotors, or motorized paragliders, dropped munitions on a candlelit Buddhist festival in Sagaing Region, killing at least 21 people, including three children as young as 2. Hundreds of villagers had gathered in a primary school compound to celebrate the Thadingyut holiday and demonstrate against military...
Published on: October 10, 2025 | Source:On Mental Health Day, End Coercion, Embrace Dignity
Click to expand Image Kaola Baird racing with teammates at the Dragon Boat Race Festival in September 2021. Baird works in Toronto as a fitness instructor and yoga coach who supports others through their path in mental health recovery. 2021 Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch Hauwa, a 25-year-old woman, was lying on the floor, shackled, and barely alive when Human Rights Watch found her in November 2024 in a state-run...
Published on: October 09, 2025 | Source:In Bangladesh a Step toward Justice
Click to expand Image Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus (3rd L) visits three secret detention facilities known as "Ayna Ghor," which had been used as torture cells during the Awami League government's rule, Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 12, 2025. 2025 Nayem Shaan/Drik/Getty Images On October 9, the Bangladesh authoritiesfiled charges against 28 peoplefor enforced disappearances, secret detention, and torture. It was a long...
Published on: October 09, 2025 | Source:How Private Equity Extracts Profit from Social Safety Net Systems
Increasingly, private equity firms are involved in public benefit systems. This is great for private equity profits, but lousy for nonprofits and people needing public services.
Published on: October 09, 2025 | Source:Balancing Power in Decision-Making
For Ask a Nonprofit Expert, organizational leadership consultant Nick Takamine answers a reader’s question about balancing power dynamics in strategic planning and decision-making.
Published on: October 09, 2025 | Source:Disturbing Reports of Sudan’s Military Using Chlorine Gas
The United States governmentsanctioned General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan’s de facto head of state, in January 2025, alleging that the SAF had used chemical weapons, but did not publish any evidence for the claim.But a new investigation by France 24, a French broadcaster, provides the first public elements to corroborate the US allegations, indicating that Sudan’s...
Published on: October 09, 2025 | Source:UN: Abusive Governments Set to Win Rights Council Seats
Click to expand Image The United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland, February 26, 2024. 2024 Hannes Albert/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo Egypt and Vietnam are on track to secure seats on theUnited Nations Human Rights Council despite being woefully unfit for membership, Human Rights Watch said today. The UN General Assembly will elect members to the UN’s premier rights body in a noncompetitive vote on...
Published on: October 09, 2025 | Source:Uyghur Scholar-Activist Faces Charges in France for Criticizing Beijing
Click to expand Image Dr. Dilnur Reyhan, a prominent French-Uyghur scholar and activist, and the president of the European Uyghur Institute, October 13, 2020. 2020 Michael Bunel via Reuters Connect UPDATE : On October 13, Dilnur Reyhan was convicted of “damage to public property” and fined 150, ordered to pay 1 in damages and interest, and to reimburse legal fees.On October 13, a court outside Paris will put on trial...
Published on: October 09, 2025 | Source:Bangladesh: New Crackdown Under Anti-Terrorism Law
Click to expand Image Protesters celebrate after the interim government officially bans all activities of the Awami League under the Anti-Terrorism Act, pending the conclusion of the International Crimes Tribunal trials against the party and its leaders, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 10, 2025. 2025 MD Abu Sufian Jewel/NurPhoto via Reuters (New York) –Bangladesh’s interim government led by Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel peace...
Published on: October 08, 2025 | Source:Tunisia: Death Sentence for Facebook Posts
Click to expand Image Protestors take part in a rally organized by the Tunisian National Salvation Front opposition coalition to mark the 13th anniversary of the 2011 uprising, in Tunis, January 14, 2024. 2024 Mohamed Messara/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (Beirut) – A Tunisian court sentenced a man to death last week for peaceful Facebook posts, Human Rights Watch said today. He received a presidential pardon days later, but...
Published on: October 08, 2025 | Source:UN Special Rapporteur on Russia Extended for Another Year
Click to expand Image Mariana Katsarova with Russian writer Boris Akunin, one of the critics in exile targeted by the Kremlin, Palais Nation, September 22, 2025. 2025 Tanya Lokshina/Human Rights Watch The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on October 7 extended the mandate of the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova, for another year.The UNHRC’s...
Published on: October 08, 2025 | Source:Saudi Arabia: Comedians Silent on Detained Activists
Click to expand Image Top row, left to right: Sam Morril. 2017 friedoxygen/Wikimedia; Tom Segura. 2023 Zach Catanzareti/Wikimedia; Aziz Ansari. 2025 Gabriel Hutchinson/Wikimedia; Jimmy Carr. 2024 Neal Brennan/Wikimedia; Pete Davidson. 2025 LaVar James/Wikimedia.Bottom row, left to right: Mark Normand. 2023 Neal Brennan/Wikimedia; Dave Chappelle. 2025 Kolby Ari/Wikimedia; Hannibal Buress. 2019...
Published on: October 08, 2025 | Source:Listening to Chalchiuhtlicue Through the Río Grande’s Flow
In the wake of extreme flooding in Texas, we are reminded that Chalchiuhtlicue— the Río Grande—is not a border to be militarized but a life force that sustains, protects, and has natural pattens that must be respected and learned.
Published on: October 08, 2025 | Source:‘They Are Hunting Us’: Child Care Workers in DC Go Underground amid ICE Crackdown
This story was originally reported by Chabeli Carrazana of The 19th. Meet Chabeli and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. From her home-based day care in Washington, D.C., Alma peers out the door and down the sidewalks. If they’re clear and there are no ICE agents out, she’ll give her
Published on: October 08, 2025 | Source:What Is Reparative Capital and Why Does It Matter?
How can investor capital repair harm? Low-cost loans help, but more broadly, in Black and Indigenous communities, building wealth requires changing rules and systems.
Published on: October 08, 2025 | Source:No Women, No Peace
Click to expand Image Iklass Ahmed, projected on screen, Founder and Coordinator of the Darfur Advocacy Group, addresses the Security Council during a meeting on Women, Peace and Security focused on conflict-related sexual violence, August 19, 2025. 2025 Bianca Otero/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters This month sees the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security....
Published on: October 08, 2025 | Source:Tajikistan: Arrest Putin
Click to expand Image Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon during their meeting in Tianjin, China, September 1, 2025. 2025 Sergei Bobylev/Sputnik via AP Photo (Brussels) – Tajikistan should deny entry to Russian President Vladimir Putin or arrest him if he enters the country, based on an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for him, Human Rights Watch said today. The...
Published on: October 08, 2025 | Source:No women, no peace
Click to expand Image Iklass Ahmed, projected on screen, Founder and Coordinator of the Darfur Advocacy Group, addresses the Security Council during a meeting on Women, Peace and Security focused on conflict-related sexual violence, August 19, 2025. 2025 Bianca Otero/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters This month sees the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security....
Published on: October 08, 2025 | Source:Egypt: Journalist Detained over Facebook Posts
Click to expand Image Ismail al-Iskandrani. Private (Beirut) –Egyptian authorities detained prominent independent journalist Ismail Iskandarani over Facebook posts, Human Rights Watch said today. They should immediately and unconditionally release Iskandarani and establish an independent committee to review the detention of thousands of peaceful critics and release all those detained for peaceful speech, assembly, or...
Published on: October 08, 2025 | Source:China: Free US-Resident Artist Unjustly Charged
Click to expand Image Chinese artists the Gao Brothers, Zhen and Qiang, with some of their "Miss Mao" pieces that feature life-sized, Pinocchio-nosed sculptures of Mao Zedong in their studio in Beijing, October 16, 2007. 2007 David Grey/Reuters (New York) – TheChinese government should drop the baseless charges against the artist Gao Zhen (高兟) and allow him and his family to return to the United States, Human Rights...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Lebanon Restricts Education Access for Many Refugees
Click to expand Image Syrian refugee children attend a class at a school in Mount Lebanon, October 7, 2016. 2016 Mohamed Azakir/Reuters The new government in Lebanon, formed this February under Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, has emphasized the importance of quality education for students in Lebanon and committed to providing all children in Lebanon, regardless of their background, with access to their right to...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Why Expanding Compassionate Release Is a Moral and Fiscal Imperative
The nation today imprisons a rapidly aging population. Not only does this practice result in thousands of deaths in prison, but it is very costly. Policy reform is required.
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Australia Should Urge Singapore to Halt Execution
Click to expand Image Then-acting Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (right) welcomes Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during the 8th Singapore-Australia Annual Leaders' Meeting on June 2, 2023. 2023 Singapore Press via AP Images Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should urge Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong to halt an execution scheduled on the day of their meeting in Canberra on October 8 for the...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Putting the “Us” Back in Trust: Media in Filipino American Diaspora Communities
In the Filipino American immigrant community, in-language fact-checking not only keeps the community informed—during the pandemic it helped preserve public health.
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source: