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Programs meant to make it easier to prosecute domestic violence and trafficking cases are under threat. The safety of thousands of immigrant women is at risk.
Published on: September 29, 2025 | Source:
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Tajikistan: Lawyer Wrongfully Held for a Decade
Click to expand Image Buzurgmehr Yorov. 2015 RFE/RL (Berlin, September 29, 2025) –Tajikistan’s authorities have wrongfully imprisoned a human rights lawyer for 10 years for exercising his human rights, 11 organizations said today. Buzurgmehr Yorov is serving a 23-year prison sentence because of his work representing political opposition leaders.Tajikistan’s authorities should quash Yorov’s conviction and sentence and...
Published on: September 29, 2025 | Source:Tanzania: Deepening Repression Threatens Elections
Click to expand Image A man casts his vote during the Tanzanian local election at a polling station in Kigoma, on November 27, 2024. 2024 ERICKY BONIPHACE/AFP via Getty Images The Tanzanian government has intensified political repression, raising grave concerns that the general elections scheduled for October 29, 2025, will be free and fair.The authorities have suppressed the political opposition and critics of the...
Published on: September 29, 2025 | Source:China: Draft ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law Tightens Ideological Control
Click to expand Image High school students attend a Chinese language class at a public boarding school for students from northern Tibet, in Lhasa in China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 1, 2021. 2021 Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo (New York) – A newly proposed law inChina would provide a broad legal framework to justify existing repression and force assimilation of minority populations throughout the country and abroad,...
Published on: September 28, 2025 | Source:US: Trump Targets Opponents in Sweeping Memorandum
Click to expand Image US President Donald Trump hosts his first cabinet meeting in Washington, DC, February 26, 2025. 2025 Brian Snyder/Reuters (Washington, DC) –United States President Donald Trump’s September 25, 2025, memorandum directing law enforcement to investigate a sprawling, imaginary conspiracy to foment political violence in the United States is a serious threat to human rights and democratic institutions,...
Published on: September 26, 2025 | Source:Reproductive Rights, Abortion Access Under Threat in Argentina
Click to expand Image People hold green handkerchiefs during a demonstration in support of safe and legal abortion access to mark International Safe Abortion Day, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 28, 2023. 2023 Mariana Nedelcu/Reuters Since taking office in December 2023, Argentina’s President Javier Milei and his government havedismantled key sexual and reproductive health protections.A report published this...
Published on: September 26, 2025 | Source:UN Security Council: Move Urgently to Protect Haitians
Young people use wheelbarrows to carry debris out of their homes, which were damaged by criminal group violence, in the Solino neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, September 10, 2025. 2025 AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph (New York) – TheUnited Nations Security Council should rapidly authorize an international mission to confront escalating violence inHaiti, and ensure it has sufficient funding, personnel, and robust human...
Published on: September 26, 2025 | Source:The Case for a Nonprofit Version of the Powell Memo
Over 50 years ago, a lawyer’s memo helped set the tone for a corporate reaction to perceived growing civil rights and labor union power. Could nonprofit advocates for a more just society organize a memo of their own today?
Published on: September 26, 2025 | Source:Teachers Are Spending More and More on School Supplies. Here’s Why.
As prices soar and family contributions shrink, America's teachers are footing the bill, spending hundreds — sometimes thousands—of their own dollars on school supplies.
Published on: September 26, 2025 | Source:Vietnam: Free Prominent Rights Activist
Click to expand Image Trinh Ba Phuong. Private (Bangkok) – TheVietnamese authorities should immediately release the prominent human rights activist Trinh Ba Phuong and drop all charges against him, Human Rights Watch said today. The People’s Court of Da Nang is scheduled to hear his case on September 27, 2025. If convicted, Trinh Ba Phuong, who is already in prison, faces an additional sentence of up to 12 years.In...
Published on: September 26, 2025 | Source:India: 4 Dead in Protests over Ladakh Statehood
Click to expand Image Indian policemen patrol a road in Leh on September 25, 2025. 2025 Tauseef Mustafa/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – Police fired on and killed four people in Leh, the capital of India’s Himalayan region of Ladakh, on September 24, 2025, after protests over demands for statehood turned violent, Human Rights Watch said today.The authorities haveimposed a curfew and reportedly detained at least 50...
Published on: September 25, 2025 | Source:Who Gets to Talk About Climate Change?
Language barriers make it challenging for people who don’t speak English to be involved in discussions about climate change. How do we ensure the majority of the world’s population isn’t left out at the very first step?
Published on: September 25, 2025 | Source:Pivoting from Reliance on Federal Funds to Mission-Aligned Private Donors
Rochelle Jerry, CFRM, answers a reader’s question about pivoting from relying on federal funding to mission-aligned private donors.
Published on: September 25, 2025 | Source:Who Is Included in and Who Will Fight for “We the Civic”?
Belonging and bridging are sometimes dismissed as the tools of the meek. This is false. Expanding the scope of belonging requires courage and steely determination.
Published on: September 25, 2025 | Source:Learning from Histories of Queer Resistance
As LGBTQ+ people face escalating government persecution and efforts to pathologize and eradicate transgender people from public life, learning from the histories of queer resistance that came before is more important than ever.
Published on: September 25, 2025 | Source:Algeria: Lift Undue Restrictions on Associations
Click to expand Image Demonstrators carry an Algerian flag in Algiers, Algeria, April 2, 2021. 2021 Ramzi Boudina/Reuters (Beirut) –Algerian authorities should end excessive control over civil society groups and parliament should enact a new associations law based on international human rights standards, eight human rights organizations including Human Rights Watch said today. A preliminary draft bill currently under...
Published on: September 25, 2025 | Source:Cambodia: Microfinance Lending Harming Indigenous Groups
Click to expand Image Amret MFI advertisement posted on the wall of the home of a Tampuan Indigenous borrower in Pa Chon Thom village, Ratanakiri, Cambodia, reading: “Amret helps you buy agricultural equipment without having your own money” [left]; “Amret is always ready to help you and your family” [right]. 2023 Private Cambodian Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) backed by international investors have aggressively...
Published on: September 25, 2025 | Source:Protecting Disability Rights Means Rebuking Harmful Autism Myths
Click to expand Image A mother supporting her 14-year-old son with autism in homeschooling, Orlando, Florida, US, October 1, 2020. 2020 Gianrigo Marletta/AFP via Getty Images In the 1950s, a so-called “refrigerator mother” theory falsely blamed autism on emotionally cold mothers, fueling decades of parental guilt and discrimination. That stigmatizing theory denied children needed support and isolated families.Earlier...
Published on: September 24, 2025 | Source:Countries’ Fossil Fuel Plans Put Climate Goals Out of Reach
Click to expand Image Pollution and steam rise from the stacks of the Miami Fort Power Station, along the Ohio River, in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, US, September 21, 2025. 2025 Jason Whitman/NurPhoto via AP Photo Climate experts have found that countries are planning twice as much fossil fuel production as is compatible with global climate commitments. The 2025 Production Gap Report, co-authored by the Stockholm...
Published on: September 24, 2025 | Source:Moving Beyond a Buzzword: Making “Resilience” Real
Resilience has become a buzzword, but we can rescue its meaning with specific actions.
Published on: September 24, 2025 | Source:From Sudan to Washington: An Aid Worker’s Story
As Sudan struggles under a brutal civil war and cuts to international aid, one Sudanese refugee and global health practitioner speaks out.
Published on: September 24, 2025 | Source:Egypt’s Parliament Should Open New Era of Consultation
Click to expand Image Outside of the High Court, downtown Cairo, Egypt on January 1, 2015. 2015 Mohamed Mahmoud/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images On September 21, 2025, in a rare and unexpected move, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi used his power under the constitution toreject a deeply flawed draft Criminal Procedure Code. He returned it to Parliament to “review objections to a number of the draft law articles.”For...
Published on: September 24, 2025 | Source:Texas Passes Bill Banning Abortion Pills from Being Mailed to the State
The legislation lets private citizens sue people who mail abortion medications to Texans. It offers a blueprint for state lawmakers trying to stop their residents from circumventing abortion bans.
Published on: September 24, 2025 | Source:Sahel Countries: ICC Withdrawal Endangers Civilians
Click to expand Image The leaders of Niger, Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani (C), Mali, Col. Assimi Goita (L), and Burkina Faso, Capt. Ibrahim Traore (R), show the documents of the Confederation of Sahel States, which they signed during their first summit in Niamey, Niger, July 6, 2024. 2024 Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – The decision of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger to withdraw from the International Criminal...
Published on: September 24, 2025 | Source:EU-Vietnam Trade Agreement Has Failed to Promote Rights
Click to expand Image European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maroš Šefčovič speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, September 3, 2025. 2025 Virginia Mayo/AP Photo When European Union Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič visits Vietnam this week, he should use his meetings with officials to address Vietnam’s violations of the2020 EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) and its...
Published on: September 24, 2025 | Source:Natural Allies? Reconnecting the Struggles Against Racism and Anti-Semitism
Some 60 years ago, Black and Jewish leaders in the United States came together to support civil rights. That alliance is largely gone. But can it be reconstructed today?
Published on: September 23, 2025 | Source:How Justice-Rooted Organizations Can Respond to the Racial Justice and Equity Backlash
Justice-rooted organizations must resist the growing political backlash to DEI by assessing risk, building collective power, and sustaining courageous action.
Published on: September 23, 2025 | Source:How to Decolonize Wealth amid a Racial Justice Backlash
While some retreat on racial justice, others double down. The Decolonizing Wealth Project, for instance, is calling for a $1 trillion shift in resources in the next 10 years.
Published on: September 23, 2025 | Source:Saudi Arabia: Riyadh Comedy Festival Whitewashes Abuses
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: September 23, 2025 | Source:China: Free Student Advocate for Tibetan Rights
(Paris) – Chinese authorities should immediately and unconditionally releaseZhang Yadi, an advocate for Tibetan rights who had been an international student in France, Human Rights Watch said today. If convicted under article 103(2) ofChina’s Criminal Law, which prohibits “inciting others to split the country and undermine national unity,” she faces up to 5 years in prison, or up to 15 if found to be a ringleader....
Published on: September 23, 2025 | Source:Syria: March Atrocities Demand Senior Level Accountability
Click to expand Image Syrian government forces in the western city of Latakia, Syria, on March 9, 2025. 2025 OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images The Syrian transitional government has promised accountability for March 2025 violence, but it has provided little transparency on whether its investigation has examined the role of senior military or civilian leaders, or what steps it will take to hold those with command...
Published on: September 23, 2025 | Source:US/Africa: Expulsion Deals Flout Rights
Click to expand Image President Donald Trump listens as Rwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe speaks during a event with Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, June 27, 2025, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, as Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, watch. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta (Johannesburg) – TheUnited States’ recent expulsions of third-country...
Published on: September 23, 2025 | Source:Trump Administration Seeks to Rewrite Global Refugee Rules
Click to expand Image A Libyan coastguard boat carrying migrants arrive at the port in the city of Misrata on May 3, 2015, after the coastguard intercepted five boats carrying around 500 people trying to reach Europe. 2015 Mahmud Turkia/AFP via Getty Images The US government is inviting government delegations to a high-level meeting on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in what looks like the first...
Published on: September 22, 2025 | Source:Immigrant Media Is a Community Building Project
Eleven years ago, my friends and I thought we were creating a magazine. Turns out, when you launch an immigrant publication, you’re also building a community hub.
Published on: September 22, 2025 | Source:Cycling Event Can’t Override Rwanda’s Abuses
Click to expand Image Mauritian rider Aurelie Halbwachs competes in the women's Elite Individual Time Trial cycling event during the UCI 2025 Road World Championships, in Kigali, Rwanda, September 21, 2025. 2025 Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images The roads of Kigali are hosting the International Cycling Union Road World Championships, a proof of Rwanda’s “remarkable journey of transformation” and “warm...
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