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Sri Lankaโs Tamil Women Await Justice 16 Years Since Warโs End
Click to expand Image Relatives of people who disappeared during or after the civil war protest in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, November 15, 2013. 2013 Doreen Fiedler/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo This Sunday, May 18, marks 16 years since the Sri Lankan government defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), ending an armed conflict that had raged for 26 years. But while the fighting has long been over, the battle for...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:
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EU Needs Tougher Response to Attack on Turkish Opposition
Click to expand Image A demonstration against the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem ฤฐmamoฤlu by members of the Turkish diaspora in the Place du Luxembourg, in front of the European Parliament on March 19, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. 2025 Thierry Monasse/Getty Images (Brussels, May 16, 2025) - The jailing by President Recep Tayyip Erdoฤanโs government of a key political opponent is a blatant repudiation of the rights to...
Published on: May 16, 2025 | Source:UN Security Council Should Renew South Sudan Arms Embargo
Click to expand Image Remnants of a burnt tukul (home) in Mathiang, South Sudan, following an attack with an incendiary weapon on March 16, 2025. Many tukuls and other civilian objects were burnt in the fires from incendiary weapons use. 2025 Private As hostilities escalate across South Sudan, the United Nations Security Council should renew its arms embargo on the country. The council should also act to prevent...
Published on: May 15, 2025 | Source:Flood Insurance Is Becoming UnaffordableโCan Community-Based Catastrophe Insurance Help?
When individual homes donโt have adequate insurance, entire communities suffer. Community-based insurance might help close the gap.
Published on: May 15, 2025 | Source:Proposed US Budget Bill Will Harm Right to Health
Click to expand Image Attendees pack the hearing room during a markup of US President Donald Trump's tax package in Washington, DC, on May 13, 2025. 2025 Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images Members of the US House of Representatives aremeeting this week to debate a legislative package that would, if enacted as written, have profound negative impacts on human rights in the United States.It should not become law....
Published on: May 15, 2025 | Source:Rising Food Prices Deepen Nigeriaโs Poverty Crisis
Click to expand Image Vendors display tomatoes for sell at Mile 12 market in Lagos, Nigeria, July 7, 2021. 2021 Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via AP Photo Several West African countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, and Gambia, proudly compete over who makes the best โjollof rice,โ rice cooked in spicy tomato sauce. But in Nigeria, this cultural staple is becoming a luxury because of soaring inflation, while...
Published on: May 15, 2025 | Source:Syria: US Lifting Sanctions Will Bolster Rights, Recovery
Click to expand Image Syrians celebrate in Umayyad Square after U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to ease sanctions on Syria in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. 2025 AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki (Washington, DC) โ US President Donald Trumpโs announcement that theUnited States will remove longstanding sanctions onSyria is a critical step toward improving Syriansโ access to fundamental economic rights and...
Published on: May 15, 2025 | Source:Arab and Muslim Advocates Fight Back Against Federal Repression
Arab and Muslim Americans are organizing to resist federal repression. At the same time, they are well aware that the scourge of Islamophobia is not new.
Published on: May 15, 2025 | Source:China/Tibet: Panchen Lama Forcibly Disappeared for 30 Years
Click to expand Image Exile Tibetan Buddhist nuns carry placards during a protest march demanding the release of their religious leader Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama, who was put under house arrest by the Chinese authorities this day in 1995 in Tibet, in Dharmsala, India, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. 2017 AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia (New York) โ Chinaโs government should free the 11th Panchen Lama Gendun Choki...
Published on: May 15, 2025 | Source:Gaza: Latest Israeli Plan Inches Closer to Extermination
Click to expand Image Palestinians returning to Khan Younis after the withdrawal of Israeli forces, pull water containers to meet their vital needs under catastrophic conditions on May 6, 2024. 2024 Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images (Beirut)โ TheIsraeli governmentโsplan to demolish what remains of Gazaโs civilian infrastructure and concentrate the Palestinian population into a tiny area would amount to an...
Published on: May 15, 2025 | Source:The US Should Protect Exiled Cuban Dissidents
Click to expand Image Rapper Eliecer Marquez Duany, also known as "El Funky" listens to a congressional roundtable on human right abuses in Cuba, July 10, 2023, in Hialeah Gardens, Florida, US. 2023 Marta Lavandier/AP Photo Last week, a group of 14 exiled Cuban dissidents living in the United States senta letter to the US government and several members of Congress, urging officials to help them obtain legal status in...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Maliโs Junta Further Shutters Political Space
Click to expand Image People protesting the Malian military junta's decision to ban political parties at the Palais de la Culture in Bamako, Mali, May 3, 2025. 2025 Private This week, Maliโs National Transition Counciladopted a bill that effectively abolishes multiparty politics across the country. The new law officially bans opposition political meetings, speeches, and organizations. The action unfortunately came as...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Russian Court Convicts Rights Defender on Bogus Charges
Click to expand Image Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Russia's leading independent election monitoring group Golos, in a courtroom prior to a hearing in Basmanny district court in Moscow, Russia, October 9, 2024. 2024 AP Photo A Moscow court on Wednesday sentenced prominent Russian rights defender and election monitor Grigory Melkonyants to five years in prison on charges of involvement with a foreign โundesirable...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:UN Security Council Should Commit to People with Disabilities
Click to expand Image A doctor adjusts the cover on the amputated leg of a 5-year-old Palestinian girl at the Artificial Limbs and Polio Center in GazaCity, February 26, 2025. 2025 Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo As the United Nations Security Council prepares for Protection of Civilians Week 2025 on May 19-23, when many stakeholders gather to advance ways to protect civilians in armed conflict, UN member states should...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Australia: Display Human Rights Leadership in Asia, Beyond
Click to expand Image Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong (L) with Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after he won the general election in Sydney, May 3, 2025. 2025 Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images (Sydney) โAustraliaโs recently re-elected Labor government should use its second term as an opportunity to amplify human rights in its foreign policy, Human Rights Watch said today in aletter to Foreign Minister...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Advocates Mobilize to Stave Off Cuts to Federal Student Loan Programs
A federal budget bill threatens to reduce higher education loan forgiveness that benefits nonprofit workers and other borrowers. Advocates are mobilizing in response.
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:How to Reduce Economic Inequality by Expanding Employee Ownership
The workplace is a leading site of inequality, but if workers owned businesses, that could change. How can advocates seize the opportunity to grow worker ownership?
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:As Neoliberalism Crashes, What Comes Next?
Neoliberalism, a leading cause of inequality for decades, is dying. What comes next is unclear. For economic justice advocates, building a positive path forward is essential.
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Egypt: Apparent Extrajudicial Killings
Click to expand Image Marsa Matruh, Egpyt, January 10, 2020. 2020 Alexander Farnsworth/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo (Beirut) โ Egyptian Ministry of Interior officers on April 10, 2025, apparently killed two men in northwestEgypt hours after their arrest, which would amount to extrajudicial executions, Human Rights Watch said today.The ministry claimed that the two men, Youssef El-Sarhani and Faraj Al-Fazary, were...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Saudi Arabia: Migrant Workers Electrocuted, Decapitated, and Falling to Death at Workplaces
Click to expand Image Migrant workers at a construction site near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 2, 2024. 2024 Jaap Arriens/Sipa via AP Photo Scores of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia have died in gruesome yet avoidable workplace-related accidents, including falling from buildings, electrocution, and even decapitation.Many migrant deaths in Saudi Arabia are erroneously classified as โnaturalโ and are neither investigated...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Libya: ICCโs 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) โ TheInternational Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutorโs upcoming briefing to theUnited Nations Security Council onLibya highlights the courtโs 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:Syria: Tรผrkiye-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) โ Syrian National Army (SNA) factions that fought the Assad government with backing fromTรผrkiye continue to detain, mistreat, and extort civilians in northernSyria, Human Rights Watch said today.These fighters are...
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 Malรฉ, 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) โSouth Koreaโs 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 Shiluโboth pseudonyms to protect their identitiesโtraveled to Sindhuli this month to register their marriage under Nepalโs 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 isnโt the first US president to threaten to revoke a nonprofitโs 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 โterrorist supporting organization.โ
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 Sudanโs 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 AUโs 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) โ TheNepal government should urgently heed the demands of conflict victims and amend the process for appointing commissioners to the countryโs 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) โ The new Pope, Leo XIV, should direct an urgent review of theVaticanโs 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 Workersโ Rights
Click to expand Image 2025 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) โ 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, โโThe Gig Trapโ: Algorithmic, Wage and Labor Exploitation in Platform Work in the USโ focuses on...
Published on: May 12, 2025 | Source: