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#Peace & Community #European #Middle East #Asia #UN #North America #Oceanian #AfricanUS: Migrants Face Abuse in Guantánamo
Click to expand Image The first US military aircraft to carry detained migrants to a detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is boarded from an unspecified location in the US, February 4, 2025. 2025 DHS/Handout via REUTERS (Washington DC) – TheUnited States should immediately halt the transfer of immigrant detainees to the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, where they face abusive and inhumane detention conditions that...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:
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Kenya: Police Harass Human Rights Watch Staff Member
Click to expand Image Otsieno Namwaya, associate Africa director at Human Rights Watch, during a media interview in July 2023. 2023 The Standard (Washington, DC) – TheKenyan police should end its apparent harassment ofOtsieno Namwaya, associate Africa director at Human Rights Watch, over his work documenting serious rights abuses in Kenya, Human Rights Watch said today.Between August 23 and 25, 2025, security...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:India: Scores of Rohingya Refugees Expelled
Click to expand Image A Rohingya woman carries drinking water in Madanpur Khadar refugee camp, India, January 14, 2024. 2024 Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Photo (New York) – Indian authorities have expelled scores of ethnicRohingya refugees toBangladesh andMyanmar without rights protections since May 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities have arbitrarily detained several hundred more,...
Published on: August 29, 2025 | Source:Children around the World Speak out for Free Education
Click to expand Image A preschool teacher reads to students at Dorothy I. Height Elementary School in Baltimore, Maryland, US, October 3, 2024. 2024 Stephanie Scarbrough/AP Photo Children from across the globe have expressed support for expanding an international human rights treaty to require countries to provide free pre-primary and secondary education. More than 8,000 children from 40 countries responded to a...
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Maldives: Authorities Tighten Grip on Media
Click to expand Image Maldives police detain a journalist during a protest against the Maldives Media and Broadcasting Regulation Bill outside government offices in the capital, Malé, on August 27, 2025. 2025 Anoof Junaid/Dhauru (Bangkok) – The Maldives parliament is considering a new law that could silence independent media amid an escalating crackdown on basic rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities...
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:UN Rights Council Should Support Justice in Afghanistan
Click to expand Image Delegates attend the opening day of the 50th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, in Geneva, June 13, 2022. 2022 Keystone/Valentin Flauraud In a new joint letter, 107 organizationsreiterated their call for the United Nations Human Rights Council to act where it has longfailed and establish an independent investigative mechanism for Afghanistan to advance accountability for past and...
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Lebanon: Immediately Release Gaddafi’s Son
Click to expand Image Hannibal Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Tripoli, Libya, June 30, 2010. 2010 REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny (Beirut) – Lebanese authorities should immediately release the son of Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi, Hannibal Gaddafi, whom they have wrongly imprisoned for nearly a decade, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should provide Gaddafi with appropriate...
Published on: August 28, 2025 | Source:Thailand Allows Myanmar Refugees in Camps to Work Legally
Click to expand Image Refugees at the Mae La refugee camp in Mae Sot, Thailand, March 5, 2025. 2025 Valeria Mongelli/Anadolu via Getty Images On August 26, Thailand’s cabinet approved measures allowing Myanmar refugees living in camps along the border to work legally. For many, it will be the first formal employment of their lives.About 108,000 refugees live in the nine camps that have sheltered people fleeing Myanmar...
Published on: August 27, 2025 | Source:Brazil One Step Away from Protecting Children Online
Click to expand Image The Brazilian Senate in Brasilia, February 1, 2021. 2021 Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images Today, Brazil’s Senate passeda long-awaited bill to protect children’s rights online. The bill now heads for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s signature into law.If enacted, this legislation would impose sweeping digital safety and privacy safeguards for children. It would compel tech companies to design...
Published on: August 27, 2025 | Source:The High Cost of Dissent in India
Click to expand Image Members of the media protest a police raid on the office of a news portal and homes of journalists and writers linked to it, at the Press Club in New Delhi, India, October 4, 2023. 2023 Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters This month the Indian governmentbanned 25 books on the Himalayan region of Jammu and Kashmir, saying they “excite secessionism.”The action by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led...
Published on: August 27, 2025 | Source:Mauritania: Years of Migration Control Abuses
Click to expand Image Two men near a wooden boat known as a pirogue, traditionally used for fishing in Mauritania and West Africa, on a beach in Nouakchott, Mauritania, June 28, 2022. Pirogues have been frequently used by migrants seeking to cross the Atlantic Ocean to reach Spain’s Canary Islands. 2022 Lauren Seibert/Human Rights Watch Mauritanian security forces committed serious human rights violations between 2020...
Published on: August 27, 2025 | Source:Gaza: US Forces Can Be Liable for Assisting Israeli War Crimes
Click to expand Image U.S. President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. 2017 Reuters (Washington, DC) – US military personnel could face legal liability for assisting Israeli forces who commit war crimes in Gaza, Human Rights Watch said today.Direct participation by US forces in military operations in Gaza...
Published on: August 26, 2025 | Source:Rethinking Nonprofit Survival: Why Partnership Is the New Leadership
This article calls on nonprofit leaders and boards to treat partnerships not as crisis responses but as strategic, equity-rooted tools for advancing mission and community impact.
Published on: August 21, 2025 | Source:Despite Efforts to Shift the Blame, Israeli Policies Are Starving Children
Click to expand Image Eighteen-month-old Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq faces life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and the blockade in Gaza City, Gaza, July 21, 2025. 2025 Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini/Anadolu via Getty Images In July, major news organizations published the image of 18-month-old Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, a Palestinian child so...
Published on: August 20, 2025 | Source:Burkina Faso Expels Senior UN Official Following Critical Report
Click to expand Image UN Regional Coordinator Carol Flore-Smereczniak. United Nations Earlier this week, Burkina Faso’s junta expelled the top United Nations representative in the country, Carol Flore-Smereczniak, declaring her“persona non grata” following a new UN report on violations against children in the country.Flore-Smereczniak is the second senior UN official to be expelled by the junta, after Barbara Manzi...
Published on: August 20, 2025 | Source:Progress on the Road to a UN Tax Treaty
Click to expand Image The UN General Assembly Hall, New York, September 24, 2024. 2024 Michael Kappeler/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo Over the past two weeks, United Nations member countries started substantive negotiations for the first-ever UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation; a historic process that reflects major shifts in global economic policymaking and geopolitics. The treaty couldreplace...
Published on: August 20, 2025 | Source:Kazakhstan Tries to Shoot the Messenger
On August 17, police in Kazakhstandetained veteran human rights defender Bakhytzhan Toregozhina and held her for several hours apparently in connection to a criminal investigation on charges of participating in a banned extremist organization. She was picked up following social media posts she had made in support of Marat Zhylanbaev, an opposition activist who has been in prison onpolitically motivated charges since...
Published on: August 20, 2025 | Source:Sri Lanka: Police Target Families of ‘Disappeared’
Click to expand Image Tamils perform rituals in memory of their deceased family members on the strip of land in Mullivaikkal where civilians were trapped in 2009 during the final weeks of the civil war in Sri Lanka, May 17, 2024. 2024 Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo (Geneva)–Sri Lankan security forces still harass families of victims of forced disappearances and misuse the country’s draconian counterterrorism law a year...
Published on: August 20, 2025 | Source:Dear Feminist Funders: It’s Time to Build a Bigger Bench
Feminist leadership is often navigating multiple intersecting crisis. How can funders better recognize and support this work?
Published on: August 20, 2025 | Source:Ukraine’s Suffering Reflected in One Family’s Story
Click to expand Image Tetiana and Petro Litvin. Nataliia Litvin On August 15, while United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin wereen route to their Alaskameeting, 26-year-old Nataliia Makarenko buried her mother, Tetiana Litvin, 60, in Kherson, southern Ukraine. Tetiana had died two days earlier in an artillery strike.Almost a year ago, Nataliia buried her father, Petro, 67. A Russian...
Published on: August 20, 2025 | Source:Ecuador: Officials Ignore Rainforest Protection Referendum
Click to expand Image The Tiputini Processing Center of state-owned Petroecuador in Yasuni National Park, northeastern Ecuador, June 21, 2023. 2023 by Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – Ecuador’s government should expedite the closure of the approximately 240 oil wells operating in the heart of Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest, Human Rights Watch said today.On August 20, 2023, the...
Published on: August 20, 2025 | Source:DR Congo: M23 Mass Killings Near Virunga National Park
Click to expand Image An aerial photograph of the Rutshuru River, which flows through the Virunga National Park, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, April 1, 2022. 2022 ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP via Getty Images The Rwandan-controlled M23 armed group summarily executed over 140 civilians in July 2025, largely ethnic Hutu, in at least 14 villages and small farming communities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.The...
Published on: August 20, 2025 | Source:Brazil: Protect Small-Scale Farmers’ Land Rights in the Amazon
Click to expand Image Trucks carrying illegally harvested logs exit the Terra Nossa settlement, September 30, 2019. 2019 Fernando Martinho/Repórter Brasil (São Paulo) –Brazil’s agrarian federal agency should reject a proposal to downsize a sustainable settlement in a deforested area of the Amazon region, Human Rights Watch said today. If approved, the reduction would open the door to legitimizing illegal land...
Published on: August 19, 2025 | Source:US-Nigeria Weapons Sale Requires Rights Safeguards
Click to expand Image Nigerian army patrols along the Kaduna Birnin Gwari area, March 8, 2024. 2024 Sunday Alabama/AP Photo The US State Department approved another potential multi-million-dollar weapons sale to Nigeria on August 14, citing support for the country’s efforts to fight terrorism and illicit trafficking. Yet the announcement is conspicuously silent on the Nigerian military’s record of serious human rights...
Published on: August 19, 2025 | Source:The Summer of Storms: What Texas and New York’s Flash Floods Can Teach Us
Flash flooding has become a regular occurrence in the New York City metro area and in Texas. How can both places get smarter about climate preparedness?
Published on: August 19, 2025 | Source:Standing with Sex Workers: Why This Case Matters
Click to expand Image Sex workers and supporters attend a march calling for decriminalization of sex work in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 27, 2021. 2021 GUILLEM SARTORIO/AFP via Getty Images At the beginning of September, South Africa’s Western Cape High Court will hear a case that could finally end the criminalization of sex work in the country. It’s a moment decades in the making, which could bring real gains for...
Published on: August 19, 2025 | Source:Australian Foreign Minister’s Vietnam Trip Should Promote Rights
Click to expand Image Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong (R) greets Vietnam's Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son (L) during the 50th ASEAN-Australia Special Summit in Melbourne on March 5, 2024. 2024 William West/AFP via Getty Images This week, Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong will travel to Vietnam to meet her counterpart, Bui Thanh Son. Australia’s relationship with Vietnam is important given Vietnam’s...
Published on: August 18, 2025 | Source:From Precarity to Promise: How Public Policy Can Reverse the Wealth Gap
US wealth inequality is getting worse. Reversing this requires two things: identifying policies that help people without wealth build wealth and making those policies law.
Published on: August 18, 2025 | Source:US: Excessive Force Against LA Protesters
Click to expand Image Los Angeles Police Department officers shoot kinetic impact projectiles at protesters outside City Hall in Los Angeles, California, on June 8, 2025. 2025 Apu Gomes/Getty Images Law enforcement officers responded to protests against immigration raids in and around Los Angeles between June 6 and 14 with excessiveforce and deliberate brutality.Local, state, and federal law enforcement’s aggressive...
Published on: August 18, 2025 | Source:Senegal: Families Internally Displaced by Floods in Limbo
Click to expand Image Fisherfolk working in Saint-Louis, located about 250 kilometers north of Senegal's capital, Dakar, on January 8, 2025. 2025 Andres Gutierrez/Anadolu via Getty Images For nine years, in Khar Yalla, authorities have effectively abandoned Senegalese families internally displaced from the Langue de Barbarie peninsula by coastal floods, violating their rights to an adequate standard of living,...
Published on: August 18, 2025 | Source:Sri Lanka: UN Rights Report Details Security Force Abuses
Click to expand Image United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a press conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 26, 2025. 2025 Krishan Kariyawasam/NurPhoto via AP Photo (Geneva) – TheUnited Nations Human Rights office’sreport on Sri Lanka details entrenched and systemic rights violations—including arbitrary detention, torture, and deaths in custody—under President Anura Kumara Dissanayake,...
Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source:Qatar: Five-Year Sentence for Baha’i Dignitary on Abusive Charges
Click to expand Image Remy Rowhani Private. (Beirut) – A Doha court sentenced the chair of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is inQatar to five years in prison on August 13, 2025, based solely on exercising his rights to freedom of speech and religion, the Baha’i International Community and Human Rights Watch said today. Qatari authorities should urgently quash the conviction and release him.Qatari...
Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source:Lebanon: Judicial Reforms Positive, But Fall Short
Click to expand Image Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and members of the Lebanese government attend a parliament session in Beirut, July 15, 2025. 2025 Emilie Madi/Reuters (Beirut) – A law that Lebanon’s parliament adopted on July 31, 2025, includes positive reforms for Lebanon’s judiciary but falls short of guaranteeing judicial independence, Human Rights Watch said today.The law includes some advances in...
Published on: August 15, 2025 | Source:Kyrgyzstan: Rights Defender on Trial After Publishing Activist’s Letter
Click to expand Image Rita Karasartova. Private (Bishkek) – The trial of aKyrgyz human rights defender who published a letter from a political activist on her Facebook page is scheduled to start on August 15, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. Rita Karasartova is charged with organizing mass riots under article 278 of the criminal code and publicly calling for the violent seizure of power under article 327, facing a...
Published on: August 14, 2025 | Source:We the People: Why a US Multiracial Democracy Depends on Black Institutions
The message is not new, but it remains vital to keep in our sights: if the United States is to ever build a truly multiracial democracy, Black institutions must play a central role.
Published on: August 14, 2025 | Source: