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Vietnam: Macron Should Raise Rights during Visit
Click to expand Image France's President Emmanuel Macron (R) greets Vietnam's President To Lam at the Elysee Palace in Paris, October 7, 2024. 2024 Eliot Blondet/Abaca/Sipa via AP Photo (Paris) –Vietnam’s recent agreements with theEuropean Union andFrance committing to human rights reforms have not resulted in improved respect for rights in the country, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to French President...
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:
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Bangladesh: Review Laws and Protect Human Rights Standards
Click to expand Image Members of Bangladesh’s paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion or RAB, a unit which is accused of enforced disappearances, stand guard in the capital Dhaka, January 7, 2024. 2024 Sazzad Hossain / SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Photo (New York) – Recent legislative initiatives byBangladesh’s interim government risk undermining fundamental freedoms, Human Rights Watch said today. Instead of pursuing its...
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:Indian Officials Repress Dissent Following India-Pakistan Hostilities
Click to expand Image Indian army officer Col. Sofia Qureshi (L), India's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri (C) , and Indian air force officer Wing Commander Vyomika Singh address a press conference after India carried out missile strikes in Pakistan, in New Delhi, India, May 7, 2025. 2025 Manish Swarup/AP Photo The attack was “driven by an objective of provoking communal discord,”said India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram...
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Judge Rules Trump Takeover of Nonprofit a “Gross Usurpation of Power”
President Trump’s attempted takeover of the US Institute of Peace was illegal, according to a federal judge.
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Being Anchored: The Challenge of Cultural Change
Can a university be an “anchor” in the positive sense of being a true community partner? Rutgers University–Newark shows that it can. But the path requires a long-term vision and deep institutional buy-in.
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Scaling Impact: How Mergers Can Advance Housing in Communities
Can nonprofit housing developers achieve more for communities by merging with nonprofits with similar missions? It is a strategy that merits further attention.
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:UN: Start Talks on Treaty to Ban ‘Killer Robots’
Click to expand Image The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots stands outside the United Nations in New York during the General Assembly in 2018. 2018 Clare Conboy (New York, May 21, 2025) – Global momentum to prohibit and regulate “killer robots” seems to be building, as evidenced by numerous countries’ participation in the first United Nations General Assembly meeting on autonomous weapons systems, Human Rights Watch said...
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Hungary: Bill Threatens To Eviscerate Democracy
Click to expand Image Protesters demonstrate outside the parliament in Budapest against a bill empowering the government to sanction civil society groups and media deemed to threaten Hungary’s sovereignty, May 18, 2025. 2025 FERENC ISZA/AFP via Getty Images (Berlin, May 21, 2025) – A bill introduced by a member ofHungary’s ruling Fidesz party is designed to gut civil society and strangle freedom of expression and...
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:El Salvador: Prominent Human Rights Defender Arrested
Ruth López. El Diario de Hoy (Washington, DC) – Authorities inEl Salvador have arrested the prominent human rights lawyer Ruth Eleonora López, Human Rights Watch said today.On May 18, 2025, at 11 p.m., Salvadoran police arrested López at her home in San Salvador. Prosecutors are accusing López—who currently serves as the Director of Anti-Corruption and Justice at Cristosal, one of the leading human rights...
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:“Advocacy Works”: Nonprofit Status-Stripping Measure Dropped from Republican Budget
A measure that would let the US treasury secretary strip nonprofit status has once again failed to move through Congress.
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Beyond Shared Vision: Building a Collaborative Road Map
Effective partnership between leaders requires moving beyond visionary conversations to include broader, collaborative engagement and a shared strategic road map.
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Libya: Civilians Caught in Militia Clashes
Click to expand Image Boys walk past a damaged armored vehicle of an armed group after heavy clashes between militias rocked the capital and resulted in civilian casualties and destruction of homes, Tripoli, Libya, May 14, 2025. 2025 AP Photo/Yousef Murad (Beirut) – Rival armed groups and quasi-state forces inLibya failed to protect civilians during clashes in Tripoli last week, leading to civilian deaths and damage...
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:How to Fend Off Attacks on Nonprofits—Three Key Strategies
An injury to one is an injury to all. This needs to be the mantra for philanthropy today, if authoritarianism is to be turned back.
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Why Legal Fear Shouldn’t Drive DEI Decisions: What Leaders Need to Know
Conversations with leading diversity, equity, and inclusion experts reveal that much of the panic reactions to executive orders to scale back DEI efforts is unwarranted.
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Mali: 22 Men Found Dead After Arrest by Soldiers
Click to expand Image The badge of a member of the Malian army (FAMA), in Anderamboukane, in Menaka region, Mali, March 22, 2019. 2019 AGNES COUDURIER/AFP via Getty Images (May 20, 2025) – Mali’s government should credibly and independently investigate the apparent extrajudicial executions of at least 22 men taken in military custody on May 12, 2025, in the town of Diafarabé, central Mali, Human Rights Watch said...
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Italy: Constitutional Court Hears Challenge to Law Penalizing Sea Rescue
Click to expand Image The SOS MEDITERRANEE crew performs a rescue in the central Mediterranean, March 9, 2025. 2025 SOS MEDITERRANEE/ by Stefano Belacchi HRW Amicus to Italy's Constitutional Court_3 December 2024 (Berlin, May 20, 2025) – On May 21, Italy’s Constitutional Court will consider for the first time arguments about the constitutional legitimacy of a law that imposes sanctions on sea rescue groups, Human...
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Prosecutions For ‘Insulting the President’ Continue in Türkiye
Click to expand Image Lawyers protest the arrest of their colleagues outside the Çağlayan courthouse in İstanbul, Türkiye, May 12, 2025. (C) 2025 Istanbul Bar Association 2025 Istanbul Bar Association Last week, university student Esila Ayık was released after 40 days in detention following her arrest for holding a banner calling Türkiye’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a dictator at a protest in Istanbul. The...
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Syria’s Transitional Justice Commission: A Missed Opportunity for Victim-Led Justice
Click to expand Image Activists and relatives hold a protest for four activists who disappeared during the war between the Syrian government under former President Bashar Assad and opposition armed groups, in Douma, Syria, January 1, 2025. 2025 AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy On May 17,Syria’s transitional authorities announced presidential decrees establishing two new government bodies: the Transitional Justice Commission...
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Peru: New Law Threatens Free Speech, Trans Rights
Click to expand Image Lawmakers sit inside Congress as they wait for the arrival of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, in Lima, Peru, July 28, 2023. 2023 Aldair Mejia/Pool photo via AP File (New York) – Alaw enacted inPeru on May 12 purports to combat sexual violence against children and adolescents, but instead undermines freedom of expression and access to information and discriminates against transgender people,...
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:How the State of the People Power Tour Is Building Power and Amplifying Black Voices
During the State of the People Power Tour, local communities—many of them in the South—have been organizing around the issues most impacting them.
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Private Equity and Wheelchair Services: How to Address a National Crisis
Wheelchair and durable medical equipment are a $60 billion industry and growing. But millions of wheelchair users are not getting the repair services they need.
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Victims of Sri Lanka’s Civil War Seek Justice
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan Tamil civil war survivors perform rituals in memory of their deceased or missing relatives near Mullivaikkal, where civilians were trapped during the last months of the war, May 17, 2024. 2024 AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena Last weekend,Tamils in Sri Lanka gathered to commemorate those who died or went missing in the country’s civil war, which lasted from 1983 to 2009. As they have for...
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Discriminatory Testing Blocks Migrant Children’s Right to Education in Russia
Click to expand Image A teacher introduces curricula and school rules to first graders at School No. 362 in St. Petersburg, Russia, September 1, 2023. 2023 CHINE NOUVELLE/SIPA/Shutterstock This week, Russia’s education and science supervision agency, Rosobrnadzor,reported that so far in 2025 only 335 children of migrants have been allowed to take the Russian language proficiency test, a new prerequisite for school...
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Sudan’s war: Tragedy of the missing and forced disappearances
Adeela, one of our partners in Sudan, reflect on the devastating impact of the conflict, and the extraordinary efforts of Sudanese communities amid the crisis. The post Sudan’s war: Tragedy of the missing and forced disappearances appeared first on Peace Direct.
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Afghan War Crimes Victims Still Awaiting Justice
Click to expand Image A British Army officer in Helmand province, Afghanistan, October 26, 2014. 2014 Press Association via AP images Family members of Afghans unlawfully killed by foreign military forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan have been waiting a long time for justice. Last week revealed two quite different approaches by countries that should provide it.Australia, which has gone the furthest in...
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:UN General Assembly Should Act on North Korea
Click to expand Image A news broadcast at Seoul Railway Station shows a strategic cruise missile during a drill by the North Korean armed forces on the coast of the Yellow Sea in North Korea, February 28, 2025. 2025 Sipa via AP Images (New York) – TheUnited Nations General Assembly should establish a new body to examine the connections between theNorth Korean government’s repressive system and its military programs...
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Japan: Press Cambodia’s Leader on Human Rights
Click to expand Image Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet meet at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on December 18, 2023. 2023 The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP (Tokyo) –Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba should publicly raise human rights issues whenCambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet visits Tokyo in late May 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The Cambodian government has...
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Chad: Opposition Leader Arrested
Click to expand Image Then-Prime Minister Succès Masra, leader of Chad’s main opposition party Les Transformateurs, casts his ballot in N'Djamena, Chad, May 6, 2024. 2024 Photo by JORIS BOLOMEY/AFP via Getty Images (New York) –Chadian authorities arrested Succès Masra, the former prime minister and leader of Chad’s main opposition party, at his residence in N’Djamena early on May 16, 2025, Human Rights Watch said...
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Another Courageous Journalist Jailed in Azerbaijan
Click to expand Image Ulviyya Ali protests against a media bill alongside other journalists, in front of the Parliament building in Baku, Azerbaijan, December 28, 2021. The writing on her hand reads "a word is free." 2021 Ulviyya Ali “If you are reading this note it is because I have been unjustly jailed for my journalism work. Like my other journalist colleagues, I have committed no crime,”wrote Ulviyya Guliyeva...
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Amid Disappearing Federal Funds, Could New York Be a Model for City-Level Health?
New York City has become an example of city-level health and climate programs. NPQ talks to mayors and advocates about how other cities are attempting to replicate New York City’s success worldwide.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Madeleine L’Engle’s Books Were Never Meant to Be “Safe”
The granddaughter of beloved writer Madeleine L’Engle, author of one of the most banned books of the last 60 years, advocates that books should build courage, not keep us “safe.”
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:The Human Cost of Cutting Medicaid
Activists are raising the alarm about potential Medicaid cuts outlined in the GOP tax bill. If enacted, it will cause millions to lose their healthcare.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:Poland Ends ‘LGBT Free’ Zones
Click to expand Image Activists protesting in favor of equality and against “LGBT-free” zones resolutions in Warsaw, Poland, March 3, 2020. 2020 Attila Husejnow / SOPA Images/Sipa via AP Photo Municipal officials in the town of Łańcut, Poland, haveabolished the country’s last remaining “LGBT Ideology Free” zone, righting more than five years of political assault on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) people...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:US: Florida Set to Trample Young People’s Rights
Click to expand Image 2023 Rebecca Hendin for Human Rights Watch (Miami) – A devastatingdecision from Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeals would eliminate access to abortion care for young people unable to get written, notarized parental consent, Human Rights Watch and If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice said today. The May 14 opinion moves to strike down parts of Florida law that allow young people...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:As Long as Social Media Is Around, Can We Really Break Free of Overconsumption?
Social media has heavily influenced our buying habits, causing sustainability has become more of a feel-good buzzword. However, there are ways that we can become more conscious of our overconsumption.
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source: