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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:
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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:As Global Climate and Refugee Crises Accelerate, a Call for Humanity
On World Refugee Day, climate change is still a leading cause of migration. Advocates and faith leaders push us to support immigrations despite hostility from the current US presidential administration.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Pride Banned, Hate Authorized in Hungary
Click to expand Image Hungarians march in downtown Budapest to protest against a new law banning LGBTQ+ Pride events and the populist government's restriction on assembly rights, May 1, 2025. 2025 Denes Erdos/AP Photo Police in Hungary have banned lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Hungarians and their supporters from peacefully assembling to celebrate Pride, while instead allowing a hate group to march on...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Vietnam: Free Prominent Journalist at Medical Risk
Click to expand Image Photo released by the Vietnam News Agency on January 5, 2021 shows Vietnamese bloggers Pham Chi Dung (right), Nguyen Tuong Thuy (front left), and Le Huu Minh Tuan (back left) during their trial in Ho Chi Minh city. 2021 STR/Vietnam News Agency/AFP via Getty Image (New York) – TheVietnamese government should immediately release the imprisoned journalist Le Huu Minh Tuan and allow him to obtain...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:How Nonprofits and Activists Can Oppose Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”
What can nonprofits and movement leaders do in the face of Trump’s signature “big, beautiful bill”? Complete victory may be unlikely, but some wins are in fact possible.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:EU: Suspend Trade Agreement with Israel
Click to expand Image Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, December 16, 2024. 2024 European Union (Brussels) – TheEuropean Union should immediately suspend its trade agreement withIsrael as long as Israel’s atrocity crimes persist, Human Rights Watch and over 110 organizations and trade unions said in ajoint statement on June 19, 2025. This...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Myanmar: Stop Recruitment, Use of Child Soldiers
Click to expand Image Military personnel participate in a parade on Armed Forces Day in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2021. AP Photo (Bangkok) – TheMyanmar military’s recruitment and use of child soldiers has surged since the 2021 coup, including a significant number recruited after the junta enacted a conscription law in February 2024, Human Rights Watch said today. On June 19, 2025, the United Nations...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Violations Soar Against Children in Armed Conflict
Click to expand Image A boy stands amid the ruins of a collapsed building following Israeli bombardment in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip, May 23, 2025. 2025 Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images Last year was the most devastating year for children in armed conflict in two decades, according to the new annual reportfrom United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The UN verified...
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Transforming Mental Health Crisis Support
Click to expand Image Benon Kabale Kitafuna at the UN disability rights conference (COSP) in New York City, June 10, 2025. (C) 2025 Jonas Bull/ Human Rights Watch. Turning my own lived experience into advocacy is what motivated me to participate in the UN’s global annual disability rights conference this June.And indeed, joining the Conference of State Parties (COSP) to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of...
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:“Unrig the Game”: Learning from Women of Color in Leadership and Social Movements
In Vanessa Priya Daniel’s new book Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning, she calls for radical shifts in how women of color leaders are seen and supported in social movements.
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:South Sudan’s Man-Made Humanitarian Catastrophe
Click to expand Image A villager who had volunteered to fetch gunny bags containing food rations from the site of an air drop takes a break at a village in Ayod county, South Sudan, February 6, 2020. 2020 Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images South Sudan is once again on the brink of full-scale humanitarian catastrophe, propelled by conflict, attacks on civilians and humanitarian infrastructure, and political...
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:EU Foreign Ministers Should Pledge to Defend Justice
Click to expand Image International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, April 30, 2024. 2024 Peter Dejong/AP Photo When the EU’s 27 foreign ministers meet on June 23, they should make defending the International Criminal Court (ICC) from escalating attacks by the Trump administration a top priority.On June 6, the US administration sanctioned four ICC judges. The new designations follow sanctions imposed by the...
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:For Black Maternal Health, We Need Justice and Equity: A Conversation with Angela Doyinsola Aina
The founder of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance discusses how the organization is navigating this current political climate and the type of supports that are needed.
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:Ecuador: New Laws Endanger Rights
Ecuador's National Assembly in Quito on October 23, 2024. 2024 Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images (Washington, DC) – New laws passed byEcuador’s National Assembly and signed by President Daniel Noboa include dangerous provisions that threaten the rights of Ecuadorians, Human Rights Watch said today.On June 7, 2025, the newly appointed National Assemblyapproved through an expedited process theNational Solidarity Law,...
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:Juneteenth and the Path Toward Justice
Click to expand Image Pastor Robert Turner walks near the National Museum of African American History and Culture as part of his monthly walk from Baltimore to Washington to raise awareness of reparations on April 16, 2025, in Washington, DC. 2025 AP Photo/Nathan Howard Juneteenth, celebrated annually in the United States on June 19, commemorates the liberation of enslaved Black people. It marks the day in 1865 when...
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:France: Many Children in Overseas Territory Lack Education
Click to expand Image A primary school devastated after Cyclone Chido in Doujani, Mayotte, December 27, 2024. 2024 Lemor David/ABACA/Shutterstock (Paris)– A bill beforeFrance’s National Assembly for the reconstruction of the overseas department of Mayotte should include access to education and other core economic and social rights of children, Human Rights Watch said today.Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean northwest of...
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:In California’s Largest Landback Deal, the Yurok Tribe Reclaims Sacred Land Around Klamath River
More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history.
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source:Nepal Police Search for Journalist Who Reported on Political Family’s Business
In Nepal’s latest attempt to silence online speech, police are trying to arrest a well-known journalist who published on his YouTube channel claims about the business interests of a leading political family. Click to expand Image Dil Bhushan Pathak. Private Dil Bhushan Pathak reported three weeks ago about the alleged investments of a member of a political family. Kathmandu’s district court issued an arrest warrant...
Published on: June 18, 2025 | Source: