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Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan: Put Rights at Center of Border Deal
Click to expand Image Top left:The wreckage of a Tajik ambulance that was attacked near a bridge by the Kyrgyz-Tajik border in Chorbog, on September 16, 2022. 2022 Jean-Baptiste Gallopin/Human Rights Watch. 2022 Jean-BaptisteGallopin/Human Rights Watch.Top right:Thecourtyard of the house of an83-year-oldwoman from Khistevarz (Tajikistan), who was killed on September 16, 2022, when an artillery shell hit the house....
Published on: March 28, 2025 | Source:
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India: Ethnic Clashes Restart in Manipur
Click to expand Image Police fire tear gas shells to disperse students protesting against ethnic violence in Imphal, in India's northeastern state of Manipur, September 10, 2024. 2024 Paojel Chaoba/AP Photo India’s northeastern state of Manipur is facing risks of renewed ethnic violence despite the resignation of its divisive chief minister and the imposition of president’s rule on February 13, 2025.India’s Supreme...
Published on: March 28, 2025 | Source:Japan’s ‘Hostage Justice’ Survivors Urge Legal Reforms at Diet
Click to expand Image Masaaki Ohkawara (L), president of Ohkawara Kakohki Co., Ltd., and Junji Shimada (C) attend a press conference in Tokyo on June 5, 2024. 2024 The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images On Wednesday, in Japan’s Diet, the House of Representatives Committee on Judicial Affairs held a hearing on the country’s abusive “hostage justice” system. To pressure suspects to confess to crimes, prosecutors have long...
Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source:UN Committee Criticizes Canada’s Immigration Detention Practices
Click to expand Image An officer demonstrates locking the door of a wet cell at the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 19, 2025. 2025 COLE BURSTON/AFP via Getty Images This week, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities issued a bleak assessment of Canada’s immigration detention system, calling for Canada to protect the legal capacity rights of...
Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source:Burkina Faso: Journalists Arrested in Media Clampdown
Click to expand Image Guezouma Sanogo (L) and Boukari Ouoba. Private (Nairobi) – Burkina Faso’s military junta arrested three journalists on March 24, 2025, for reporting on the government crackdown on the media, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities arrested Guezouma Sanogo and Boukari Ouoba, respectively president and vice president of the Burkina Faso’s Journalists Association (Association des journalistes...
Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source:What Is an Ethical Supply Chain—And Why Does It Matter?
The companies and institutions most responsible for deforestation support unsustainable practices and contribute to harm. What would an ethical supply chain look like instead?
Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source:Countering Criminalization: The Vital Role of Organizing Against Homelessness
Homelessness is rising, and homeless people are being criminalized. To counter those trends, support for unhoused people to organize on their own behalf is critical.
Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source:Nicaragua: UN Rights Council Should Renew Experts’ Mandate
Members of the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua hold a press conference during the 58th Human Rights Council session at the UN's European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, February 26, 2025. 2025 Til Buergy/Keystone via AP (Geneva) – TheUnited Nations Human Rights Council should extend the mandate of the Group of Human Rights Experts onNicaragua for an additional two years, Human Rights Watch said today....
Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source:AI Disruption and Marginalized Communities: Nonprofits as Catalysts for Workforce Equity
Across industries, workers are being displaced by AI and automation at alarming rates. But nonprofits have the opportunity to empower individuals with the skills they need to thrive.
Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source:Disaster Recovery Requires Community Care—But Also Government Support
After Hurricane Helene, community groups like BeLoved Asheville have shown what community care can look like in the wake of the natural disaster. Government resources must also be allocated to meet people’s needs.
Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source:EU/Central Asia: Deepening Ties Should Center Human Rights
Click to expand Image Officials from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan attend the meeting of Foreign Ministers of Central Asia and the European Union in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, November 17, 2022. 2022 Photo by Bahtiyar Abdulkerimov/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (Brussels, March 27, 2025) –TheEuropean Union should put human rights at the center of its intensifying engagement with Central...
Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source:Morocco: Activist Sentenced for Peaceful Speech
Click to expand Image Fouad Abdelmoumni (left) and other Members of the Parliamentary Monarchy Now in Morocco coalition give a press conference on June 28, 2011 in Rabat. 2011 Abdelhak Senna/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – A Casablanca Court on March 3, 2025, sentenced a prominent activist, Fouad Abdelmoumni, to six months in prison and fines over a Facebook post, Human Rights Watch and Democracy for the Arab World...
Published on: March 27, 2025 | Source:UK Imposes Sanctions on Four Sri Lankans for Alleged War Crimes
Click to expand Image Then-Sri Lankan army chief Gen. Shavendra Silva during an event at the army headquarters in Colombo, February 3, 2020. 2020 REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte The United Kingdom government has advanced accountability in Sri Lanka by imposing sanctions on four men implicated in atrocities during the country’s civil war.The 1983-2009 conflict between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Australia: Disproportionate Removal of Aboriginal Children
Play Video (Sydney) – WesternAustralia’s child protection authorities are disproportionately removing children from Aboriginal families and placing them in out-of-home care, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Children continue to be removed from their homes nearly two decades after the Australian government issued an apology to First Nations peoples for forcibly removing their children. March 26, 2025...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:An AWP Conference in the Wake of Climate Disaster
As the Association of Writing Programs annual conference begins in wildfire-stricken LA, questions are mounting about how and if to hold a nonprofit conference in a climate disaster area.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Our Task Ahead: Reclaiming Revolutionary Struggle in Atlanta and the South
In the current moment, movement-based organizations must reclaim their revolutionary roots. In contemporary organizing in the US South, tools are available to do so.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:How to Power Good Union Jobs in the Clean Energy Economy
As examples from Tennessee and Alabama show, when workers, unions, and communities come together, major gains in worker wellbeing become possible.
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Zimbabwe: Journalist Held on Baseless Charges
Click to expand Image Journalist Blessed Mhlanga walks to an awaiting prison vehicle in Harare, Zimbabwe, after his bail ruling was postponed on February 27, 2025. 2025 Photo by JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP via Getty Images (Johannesburg) – Zimbabwean authorities should immediately release and drop the groundless charges against a journalist for his reporting, Human Rights Watch said today. Blessed Mhlanga, a senior...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Colombia: Armed Groups Batter Border Region
People cross a river to Venezuela from Tibu, Colombia on January 21, 2025, following fightings that killed dozens and forced thousands to flee their homes in the Colombian Catatumbo region. 2025 AP Photo/Fernando Vergara Armed groups fighting over parts of the Catatumbo region near theColombia-Venezuelaborder have committed grave abuses and displaced thousands.The groups have killed, assaulted, kidnapped, and...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Georgia: Drop Repressive ‘Foreign Agents’ Bill
Click to expand Image Protesters march in front of Georgia’s parliament in Tbilisi, calling for the release of other protestors, whose images they display on posters, March 7, 2025, 2025 Sebastien Canaud/NurPhoto via AP (Berlin, March 26, 2025) – TheGeorgian parliament should reject a bill to introduce criminal penalties for civic activists and nongovernmental groups that refuse to register as “foreign agents,” Human...
Published on: March 26, 2025 | Source:Syria: Constitutional Declaration Risks Endangering Rights
Click to expand Image Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, center, prepares to sign a constitutional declaration for Syria in Damascus, on March 13, 2025. 2025 Omar Albam/AP Photo (Beirut) – Syria’s newly approved constitutional declaration, meant to govern the country’s transitional phase, concentrates power in the executive and could undermine the independence of the judiciary, Human Rights Watch said today....
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Countries Press UN Rights Council on Accountability in Afghanistan
Click to expand Image The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, June 13, 2022. 2022 Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP Photo Last week, a cross-regional group of countries – led by Iceland, with support from Chile and South Africa – called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to act to advance accountability for past and ongoing rights abuses in Afghanistan. Their joint statement urged...
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:How Trump’s Migrant Crackdown Is Straining Mexico’s Brittle Nonprofit Sector
A view of Trump administration policies from Casa Tochan, a Mexican migrant shelter.
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:FIFA: Recognize, Support Afghan Women's Team in Exile
Click to expand Image Afghan women's football team players celebrate a goal on April 24, 2022. 2022 William West AFP via Getty Images (Amsterdam) – The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) should act to stop the ongoing discrimination againstAfghan women footballers living in exile and facilitate their return to international competition, theSport & Rights Alliancesaid in areportreleased...
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Inside the Federal Funding Freeze
The San Francisco-based Center for Gender and Refugee Studies provides technical assistance to support the legal representation of unaccompanied migrant children. Recent actions by the Trump administration have put these efforts at risk.
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Get a Passport or Leave: Russia’s Ultimatum to Ukrainians
Click to expand Image People cross a street with a billboard reading "How to get a passport of a citizen of Russia" in the occupied territory of Luhansk, September 22, 2022. 2022 AP Photo Adecree Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on March 20, 2025, requires Ukrainian citizens living in the Russian-occupied parts of Zaporizka, Khersonska, Donetska, and Luhanska regions to either “regulate their legal status” or...
Published on: March 25, 2025 | Source:Survivors Bring Case to End Japan’s ‘Hostage Justice’
Click to expand Image Tomoya Asanuma (center) appears alongside his legal counsel at a press conference after filing a lawsuit on "hostage justice" at the Tokyo District Court on March 24, 2025. The mannequin next to him representsYo Amano, who has been detained without trial for over six years. 2025 Lalasa Tomita/Human Rights Watch Four survivors of Japan’s “hostage justice” filed alawsuit at the Tokyo District Court...
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:South Koreans Await Court’s Verdict on President’s Impeachment
Click to expand Image South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo arrives at the Government Complex in Seoul, March 24, 2025. 2025 Heon-Kyun Jeon /Pool Photo via AP Photo South Korea’s Constitutional Court’sreinstatement of Han Duck-soo as prime minister yesterday, overturning his impeachment, is a significant development in the country’s political crisis. But despite superficial similarities, Han’s case bears little...
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Türkiye: Court Jails Istanbul Mayor
Click to expand Image Banner on the Istanbul Municipality building shows mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, March 22, 2025. 2025 Human Rights Watch (Istanbul, March 24, 2025) – The formal order by an Istanbul court to detain Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is the latest example of the justice system weaponized to remove a leading opposition politician from the political scene, Human Rights Watch said today.Mayor İmamoğlu’s...
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:When the Mouth Speaks, the Whole Person Heals: Bringing Integrative Community Therapy and Solidarity Care from Brazil’s Favelas to the United States
Integrative Community Therapy and the concept of solidarity care offer a way to help create community, solve personal and community challenges, alleviate suffering, cultivate love and solidarity, and move us toward health equity and justice. That’s a tall order, but it’s within the capacity of the people. In fact, that is the only place it exists.
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Bridging the Healthcare Gap: How Sick Pikin Helps Sierra Leone’s Children Access Lifesaving Treatments
As geopolitical shifts and domestic pressures in donor countries increasingly dictate the future of global health assistance, smaller nonprofits, like Sick Pikin in Sierra Leone, continue relying on the communities they serve for support. With limited healthcare infrastructure and ongoing funding challenges, it’s clear that more sustainable solutions are needed.
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression
Given the historical, inherent biases in society generally and healthcare specifically, AI-driven advancements are not going to serve minority groups as a matter of course. Unless they are tailored to represent and serve all communities equally, they will exacerbate existing biases and disparities. We need representative data. How do we get there?
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Germany: Social Security Failing to Protect Rights
Click to expand Image A womancollecting foodfroma Tafel-run food bank in Berlin, Germany, while children in strollers look on,July 3, 2023. 2023 Carsten Koall/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Social security failures coupled with structural gender inequality leave many people in Germany mired in poverty, especially single-parent families and older women.Major gaps remain in the world’s third richest country between the...
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Global Cooperation Needed to Tackle Air Pollution
Click to expand Image Smoke billows over the Mississippi River in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. October 15, 2023. 2023 Eli Reed for Human Rights Watch Government officials, local authorities, health professionals, and civil society are gathering today at the secondglobal conference on air pollution and health in Cartagena, Colombia.As multilateralism is under threat, this convening is a crucial opportunity for...
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source:Nepal: Extend Social Protection for Children in Coming Budget
Click to expand Image Children write in chalk on the walls of a Saraswati temple on the festival of Saraswati Puja on January 26, 2023. 2023 Sipa via AP Images (Bangkok) – The government of Nepal should use the forthcoming budget to protect the rights of Nepali children by expanding its popular and successful Child Grant program, 24 Nepali and international rights groups said today in a letter to Finance Minister...
Published on: March 24, 2025 | Source: