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Russia: Rising Toll of LGBT ‘Extremism’ Designation
Click to expand Image A law enforcement officer stands guard during the LGBT community rally "X St.Petersburg Pride" in Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 3, 2019. 2019 REUTERS/Anton Vaganov Russian courts have issued over 100 convictions for “extremism” for participating in the “International LGBT Movement” or displaying its alleged symbols.Russian authorities weaponize and misuse the justice system as a tool in their...
Published on: June 30, 2025 | Source:
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China: Building a ‘Patriots Only’ Hong Kong
Click to expand Image A flag raising ceremony on National Security Education Day at a secondary school in Hong Kong, China, April 15, 2021. 2021 Vernon Yuen/NurPhoto via AP Photo China’s government has erased Hong Kong’s freedoms since imposing the draconian National Security Law on June 30, 2020.The Chinese government has largely dismantled freedoms of expression, association and assembly, free and fair elections,...
Published on: June 29, 2025 | Source:UAE: 24 Defendants Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
Click to expand Image UAE Minister of State and CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber talks during the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week's opening ceremony, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, January 16, 2023. 2023 AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili (Beirut) – The recentconvictions of 24 defendants in theUnited Arab Emirates to life imprisonment were based on a fundamentally unfair mass trial, Human Rights...
Published on: June 28, 2025 | Source:How How Do New Yorkers Feel About Mamdani’s Win in NYC’s Mayoral Primary?
New Yorkers reflect on Zohran Mamdani’s surprise win in the New York City mayoral primary election.
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:Donor Base Continues to Decline, FEP Report Says
Even as overall dollars raised by nonprofits increased last year, the number of donors giving dropped for the fourth year in a row, marking a worrying trend in grassroots fundraising.
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:Holding the Line for LGBTQ+ Youth: Community, Care, and Resistance
This installment of NPQ’s column Notes from the Frontlines looks at how to support LGBTQ+ youth in a time of crisis.
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:Kyrgyzstan: Parliament Weakens Torture Protection, Media Freedom
Click to expand Image The parliament (Supreme Council) of the Kyrgyz Republic. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Mariusz Prusaczyk via Getty Images (Bishkek, June 27, 2025) – Kyrgyzstan’s parliament on June 25, 2025, passed two draft laws that threaten to significantly weaken media freedom and protection against torture in the country, Human Rights Watch said today.The draft Law on theOmbudsman effectively dismantles the...
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:Ecuador: Public Integrity Law Endangers Children
(New York) – Reforms passed byEcuador’s National Assembly and signed by President Daniel Noboa severely threaten children’s rights and fail to protect children who are recruited or used by organized crime groups, Human Rights Watch said today.On June 24, 2025, the National Assemblyapproved thePublic Integrity Law. The law’s stated goals are to eradicate violence and corruption across all public offices, improve public...
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:El Salvador: Police Officers Speak Out About Abuses
Police search people bus passengers during the state of emergency in Santa Ana, El Salvador, June 30, 2022. 2022 MARVIN RECINOS/AFP via Getty Images Interviews with police officers and internal police documents reveal abusive practices that have led to arbitrary detention and abuse of power in El Salvador.Their accounts provide a rare insight into how the Salvadoran police have fabricated evidence to fulfill arrests...
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:Kenya: Hold Authorities Accountable for Protesters’ Deaths
Click to expand Image Riot police patrol during a protest on June 25, 2025, in Nairobi, Kenya. Today's demonstration marks the first anniversary of the 2024 anti- Finance Bill protests. 2025 Photo by Donwilson Odhiambo/Getty Images (Nairobi) –Kenyan authorities should be held accountable for all abuses during countrywide protests on June 25, 2025, including killings, gun injuries, and beatings, Human Rights Watch said...
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:Philippines: Trans Rights Activist Murdered
Click to expand Image Ali Jejhon Macalintal during a protest rally in General Santos City, Philippines. Karapatan (Manila) – A hooded gunman in General Santos City in the southern Philippines carried out an apparent targeted killing on June 23, 2025, of a transgender rights activist who worked as a radio commentator, Human Rights Watch said today.The media reported that an unidentified man shot Ali Jejhon Macalintal...
Published on: June 27, 2025 | Source:The Continued Threat to LGTBQ+ Communities—and What Nonprofit Leaders Need to Know
LGBTQ+ leaders and nonprofit workers offer what LGBTQ+ community members need most right now, but nonprofits and funders can do more to help meet those needs.
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:The Role of Immigrant “Second Responders”—What the LA Wildfires Teach Us
While attention to disasters is often short, recovery takes a long time. Policy and philanthropy need to support second responders, many of whom are immigrants.
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Türkiye: Jailed Mayor’s Lawyer Detained
Click to expand Image Lawyers from Istanbul Bar Association protest the detention of Mehmet Pehlivan, lawyer to jailed mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, and other detained lawyers. Istanbul, June 23, 2025. 2025 İstanbul Bar Association (İstanbul, June 26, 2025) – An Istanbul court’s decision on June 19, 2025, to allow the detention of a leading defense lawyer for thejailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu appears to be in reprisal...
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Press release: Hundreds of local peacebuilders to gather at Peace Connect in Nairobi
This event offers peacebuilders a chance to build active solidarity in the face of funding cuts, hostile politics and escalating conflict. The post Press release: Hundreds of local peacebuilders to gather at Peace Connect in Nairobi appeared first on Peace Direct.
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:UN Financing Development Meeting Should Advance Tax Justice
Click to expand Image An activist holds up a button as negotiations for the tax convention take place at the United Nations in New York, February 6, 2025. 2025 Anne Marte Skaland (Seville) – The United Nations conference on financing for development should help pave the way for meaningful progress on improving international tax cooperation to benefit everyone’s human rights, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights...
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Ethiopia: Crackdown on Health Workers’ Protests
Click to expand Image A doctor visits a patient at the emergency ward of the Suhul General Hospital in Shire, Ethiopia, October 11, 2024. 2024 MICHELE SPATARI/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – The Ethiopian authorities should immediately rescind the suspension of a prominent health professionals organization and meaningfully address public healthcare workers’ outstanding grievances, Human Rights Watch said today.The...
Published on: June 26, 2025 | Source:Bangladesh: Foreign Aid Cuts Affect Rohingya Children’s Education
Click to expand Image A Rohingya girl walks past shelters in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 9, 2025. 2025 Abdullah Bawshore US and other foreign donor cutbacks in humanitarian aid have worsened the existing education crisis for 437,000 school-age children in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, with schools that served hundreds of thousands of children shut down.The cutbacks have closed learning...
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Turkmenistan: Imprisoned Activist Faces New Dubious Charges
Click to expand Image Murad Dushemov, February 2020 Private (Berlin, June 25, 2025) –Turkmenistan’s authorities have brought new charges against an imprisoned activist who had been scheduled for release earlier in June 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately and unconditionally free the activist, Murad Dushemov, and drop all abusive efforts to extend his detention.Dushemov was jailed in...
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:New Global Coalition Urges Rights-Based Climate Relocation Policies
Click to expand Image The Coalition on Dignified Climate-related Planned Relocation, New York City, June 19, 2025. 2025 Human Rights Watch Last week, Human Rights Watch hosted the launch of the “Coalition on Dignified Climate-related Planned Relocation,” a new global alliance working to ensure communities forced to plan relocations due to climate change can do so on their own terms and with dignity.Over two days in...
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:UN Human Rights Office Calls for Action on ‘Transnational Repression’
Click to expand Image United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2023. 2023 Denis Balibouse/Reuters Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office issued its first everguidance paper on “transnational repression,” aimed at increasing awareness and understanding of this expanding global issue.Transnational repression occurs when governments reach across their borders to stifle...
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Meet the Donor-Advised Funds That Are Meeting the Moment
Amid an unprecedented attack in an already precarious funding landscape, some DAFs provide affirmative examples for how the whole sector should operate.
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Openings Arise for State and Local Housing Activists amid Federal Retrenchment
While federal housing cutbacks harm millions, a silver lining is that the federal retrenchment is already providing openings for state and local housing policy gains.
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Federal Workers Are Organizing for Democracy—from the Inside Out
In the crucible of mass layoff threats, federal workers are discovering their voice. This organizing could have widespread implications far beyond the public sector.
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:Haiti: Displacement Hits Record as Security Efforts Fall Short
Children live in makeshift sites as growing insecurity, particularly in the capital, is forcing families to flee their former shelters in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on April 16, 2025. 2025 Guerinault Louis/Anadolu via Getty Images (Washington, DC) – One year sincedeployment of the first personnel of theUnited Nations-authorized Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission toHaiti, violence and human rights abuses continue...
Published on: June 25, 2025 | Source:South Korea: Human Rights Issues for New Government
Click to expand Image South Korea's President Lee Jae-myung during his inauguration ceremony at the National Assembly in Seoul, June 4, 2025. 2025 Anthony Wallace/AP Photo (Seoul) –South Korea’s new government should adopt measures to address human rights problems in the country and abroad, Human Rights Watch said today in aletter to President Lee Jae-myung. It is critically important for the government to bolster...
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Rwanda: Opposition Leader Arrested
Click to expand Image Opposition politician and president of the Dalfa-Umurinzi party, Victoire Ingabire, at the High Court in Kigali on March 13, 2024. 2025 Photo by Guillem Sartorio / AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – The Rwandan authorities rearrested Victoire Ingabire, the head of an unregistered political party, on June 19, 2025, as a part of a drawn-out trial that targets political opposition figures, Human...
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:How the Arts Can Create the Foundation for a Multiracial US Democracy
Trump’s hostile takeover of America’s flagship arts institutions challenges us to reimagine the role of the arts in public life to create a robust culture of democracy.
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Resurgence of Suicide Bombings in Nigeria’s Boko Haram Conflict
Click to expand Image A victim of a recent wave of suicide attacks arrives for treatment at a hospital in Maiduguri on June 29, 2024. 2024 Audu Marte/AFP via Getty Images On the night of June 21, a woman detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in a crowd of people at a fish market in Konduga town, about 25 km southeast of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital in Nigeria. The attack, whichreportedly killed at least...
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Human Rights Council Members Should Reject Eritrea’s Bid to End Scrutiny
Click to expand Image Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker, during the 55th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, February 28, 2024. 2024 Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images The government of Eritrea has been working the corridors of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to try to end the mandate of the UN special rapporteur on...
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Kazakhstan: Abused Woman Facing Murder Conspiracy Retrial
Click to expand Image Elvira Erkebayeva Private (Berlin, June 24, 2025) – A woman from western Kazakhstan who experienced two decades of severe domestic abuse by her former husband is to be retried for allegedly conspiring to murder him, Human Rights Watch said today. The first attempt to prosecute the woman, Elvira Erkebayeva, 41, was declared a mistrial on May 19, 2025, and exposed how police in Kazakhstan failed to...
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Prominent Critic of Guinean Junta Abducted, Tortured
Click to expand Image Mohamed Traoré, Guinea 2024. 2024 Private InGuinea early on Saturday morning, at least a half-dozen heavily armed men broke into the home of Mohamed Traoré, a prominent lawyer and former bar association president, assaulted him and his daughter, and then forced him into a car and drove away. Traoré had been publiclycriticalof the country’s military junta, which took power in September 2021.After...
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Mozambique: Armed Group’s Child Abductions Surge in North
Click to expand Image A mother walks with her daughters in the community of Saul, in the Metuge region of Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, on March 26, 2024. 2024 Juan Luis Rod/AFP via Getty Images (Johannesburg)– An armed group linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) has ramped up abductions of children in northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, Human Rights Watch said today. Most of the abducted children are being...
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Belarus Releases Opposition Politician, 13 Other Political Prisoners
Click to expand Image Belarusian opposition politician Siarhei Tsikhanouski (L), released from prison, embraces his wife, opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, after a news conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, June 22, 2025. 2025 Mindaugas Kulbis/AP Photo Last Saturday, Belarusian authorities released by presidential pardon 14 prisoners, all jailed as a result of politically motivated prosecutions, and transferred...
Published on: June 23, 2025 | Source:UK Social Security Plans Will Harm People With Disabilities
Click to expand Image Disability rights activists march in London against social security cuts as the UK’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves presents her “Spring Statement” or mini-budget, March 26, 2025. 2025 Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock The United Kingdom government has just publisheddraft legislation seeking to “reform” key disability-related aspects of its complex social security system. While the government...
Published on: June 21, 2025 | Source: