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Lebanon: Journalists, Activist Summoned for Investigations
Click to expand Image Beirut Lebanon, November 16, 2015. 2015 Bilal Hussein/AP Photo (Beirut) –Lebanese journalists, media organizations, and civil society groups are facing the repeated use of criminal defamation charges and other vague legal provisions in response to their work alleging corruption and financial mismanagement in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. On April 10, Lebanon’s public prosecution...
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:
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Supreme Court Considers Whether States May Prevent People Covered by Medicaid from Choosing Planned Parenthood as Their Healthcare Provider
A Supreme Court case weighs whether patients on Medicaid can choose Planned Parenthood as their healthcare provider.
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:How the Trump Administration Is Undermining Civil Rights Law—and How Nonprofits Can Fight Back
As civil rights protections are increasingly undermined, nonprofits are confronting a difficult question: How do they remain faithful to their missions when the legal system designed to protect their work is being turned against them?
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:Facing Our Dobbs Moment for Disability Rights
The Dobbs decision’s impact extends far beyond reproductive rights. In particular, the rights of people with disabilities are also affected. Here is how to fight back.
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:UN Landmines Resolution Highlights Human Rights Impact
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. 2019 Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP (Geneva, April 14, 2025)– The United Nations Human Rights Council’s first resolution on landmines strongly endorses the long-standing international treaty prohibiting antipersonnel mines at a...
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:EU-PA Dialogue Should Focus on Palestinians’ Rights
Click to expand Image European Union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas (L) and Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa at a press conference following their meeting in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, March 24, 2025. 2025 Nasser Nasser/AP Photo (Brussels, April 14, 2025) – European Union High Representative Kaja Kallas and EU foreign ministers should focus on the protection of Palestinians’ rights during the...
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:EU Border Agency: Use Aerial Surveillance to Save Lives at Sea
Click to expand Image Médécins Sans Frontières rescue crew help a man on board following a rescue in the central Mediterranean Sea, September 20, 2024. 2024 Mohamad Cheblak/MSF (Brussels, April 14, 2025) – Frontex, theEuropean Union’s Border and Coast Guard agency, should ensure that its aerial surveillance capacity is used to save lives at sea, Human Rights Watch said today. The organization met with Frontex...
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:Sudan: After 2 Years of War, Global Action Needed
Click to expand Image A view of the damage surrounding Al-Shaab Teaching Hospital following intense clashes between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum, Sudan, on March 29, 2025. 2025 Mohammed Nzar Awad/Anadolu via Getty Images (Nairobi) – Leaders gathering in London on April 15, 2025, should urgently work to protect civilians and guarantee safe, unfettered aid provision as the conflict inSudan...
Published on: April 14, 2025 | Source:China: Police Arrest Tibetans for Internet, Phone Use
Click to expand Image A Tibetan Buddhist monk and a woman share a mobile phone outside the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, on June 1, 2021. 2021 Kevin Frayer/Getty Images (New York) –China’s government has arrested dozens of people in Tibetan areas since 2021 for politically motived phone and internet-related offenses, Human Rights Watch said today. Tibetan journalists in exile report that...
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Mozambique: No Arrests in Post-Election Political Killings
Click to expand Image Mozambique police officers look on as protesters gather in Maputo while Daniel Chapo is sworn in as Mozambique’s president on January 15, 2025. 2025 AMILTON NEVES/AFP via Getty Images (Johannesburg) –Mozambican authorities have failed to conduct credible investigations into the wave of political killings following the October 2024 general elections, Human Rights Watch said today. Unidentified...
Published on: April 13, 2025 | Source:Civilians Around Sudan’s El Fasher Face New Attacks
Click to expand Image Displaced people who fled the Zamzam camp, gather near the town of Tawila in North Darfur, Sudan, February 14, 2025. 2025 AFP via Getty Images Global leaders need to respond to reports of fresh attacks by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the Zamzam displacement camp near North Darfur’s capital of El Fasher. The camp hosts at least half a million people who have fled past and present violence...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:In Unit 29, Men Incarcerated in Mississippi Tell Their Stories
In a book released last year, men incarcerated in one of America’s most notorious prisons tell their stories.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Emergency update: Myanmar earthquake
In the midst of its civil war, Myanmar has been struck by a devastating earthquake that killed and injured thousands of people. Local peacebuilders have once again become first responders. They have rapidly reached affected communities that international organisations can’t access and provided support that international governments have failed to deliver. The post Emergency update: Myanmar earthquake appeared first on...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:US/El Salvador: Venezuelan Deportees Forcibly Disappeared
Relatives of Venezuelan migrants deported from the US to a maximum security prison in El Salvador attend a vigil in front of the El Salvadoran embassy in Caracas on April 2, 2025. JUAN BARRETO/AFP via Getty Images (Washington, DC) – The governments of theUnited States andEl Salvador have subjected more than 200Venezuelan nationals to enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention, Human Rights Watch said today.On...
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Instead of Addressing Child Abuse Prevention, Trump Attacks Trans Youth
Click to expand Image People attend a rally in Union Square supporting transgender youth, New York City, US, February 8, 2025. 2025 Spencer Platt/Getty Images In hisproclamation for National Child Abuse Prevention Month, rather than addressing real threats to children like the federal governmentshould do, United States President Donald J. Trump focused almost exclusively on attacking supporters of transgender youth....
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Women Aren’t Bad at Taking Risks—The System Is Just Rigged
Women typically invest less than men. It’s not that they are unwilling—the problem lies in how investing has been portrayed. For too long, it’s been framed as a high-stakes game requiring bold, aggressive risk-taking. But that narrative is misleading.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Is the New Political Order Undoing Decades of Healthcare Progress?
The United States stands at a political crossroads as recent policy changes threaten to unravel decades of progress toward healthcare equity and accessibility. Are current political shifts merely the latest iteration of a familiar cycle, or do they represent a deeper erosion of foundational healthcare infrastructure?
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:The Unraveling of Rural Healthcare in Wisconsin and Beyond
Rural hospitals are closing at an alarming rate. What are the reasons for the often abrupt closures, and what happens to the patients and communities left behind?
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:The Trump Administration’s Assaults on Black History
This week, it was reported that the United States National Park Service had begunscrubbing information from its exhibits about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad; one of the most significant stories of resistance against chattel slavery in the United States. The move would have destroyed knowledge about how oppressed people in the United States have successfully fought for freedom. While the Park Servicewalked...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:New Data Exposes Global Healthcare Funding Inequalities
Click to expand Image A client waits to be seen by a doctor during an HIV clinic day at TASO Mulago service center in Kampala, Uganda, February 17, 2025. 2025 Hajarah Nalwadda/Getty Images New data from the World Health Organization reveals that many governments’ public funding of health care falls short of what is needed to meet their human rights obligations.The vast majority of people live in countries where low...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:South Sudan: Incendiary Bombs Kill, Burn Civilians
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 (Nairobi) – South Sudan’s use of improvised air-dropped incendiary weapons has killed and horrifically burned dozens of people, including children, and destroyed civilian...
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:China/Vietnam: Suspicious Death of Tibetan High Lama
Click to expand Image Humkar Dorje Rinpoche, date unknown. 2025 Tibet.net (Taipei) – The Vietnamese government should investigate the death under suspicious circumstances of a senior Tibetan lama, Humkar Dorje Rinpoche, in Ho Chi Minh City on March 29, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today.Humkar Dorje, 56, died following months of concern by the Tibetan community about his whereabouts and well-being. His followers in...
Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:Iran: Imminent Threat to Amputate Prisoners' Fingers
Click to expand Image Hadi Rostami. Kurdistan Human Rights Newtork (Beirut) –Iranian authorities are preparing to carry out finger amputation sentences, as early as April 11, 2025, against three men imprisoned for theft following grossly unfair trials, Human Rights Watch said today. All United Nations member states should urgently call on Iran to abide by its human rights obligations and immediately revoke these...
Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:Planning for Success: Why Asset Transfers to Communities Matter
Foundations often offer loans to community groups. This may seem efficient but can make projects precarious. Gifting assets, by contrast, sets groups up for success.
Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:How the Black South and Labor Can Unite to Create Pathways to Good Jobs
Georgia is the cradle of the civil rights movement, but, as elsewhere, Black workers still lack equitable access to good jobs. What can be done?
Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:Unite in Advance: Philanthropy Coalition Launches Solidarity Campaign
A philanthropy coalition launches a solidarity campaign to defend the freedom to support our essential nonprofit sector.
Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:Thailand: US Scholar Detained on Royal Insult Charge
Click to expand Image Paul Chambers, Thailand, April 8, 2025. 2025 Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (Bangkok) – Thai authorities should immediately release and drop the groundless charges against Paul Chambers, a leading Thai studies scholar, Human Rights Watch said today.On April 8, 2025, Chambers was detained after he reported to police in Phitsanulok province regarding lese majeste (insulting the monarchy) and...
Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:The Case for Solidarity Between Nonprofit and Federal Workers
The Trump administration’s efforts to axe federal workers and roll back union rights makes evident the urgent need for solidarity between nonprofit and federal workers.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:How to Not “Obey in Advance”—Actions for Resisting Authoritarianism
These are not normal times for nonprofits and movements. But these times also provide an opportunity to recommit to mission and advance the values that we hold dear.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:“How Do We Break Out of Pity?”: Reframing Children as Philanthropic Citizens
Philanthropy education must shift from pity to solidarity, empowering children as active participants in their communities. Programs like The Giving Square foster empathy, agency, and real-world problem-solving in young people.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:Why Are We Ignoring One-Sixth of the Nonprofit Workforce?
Volunteerism is in trouble. It’s time for a new paradigm for how we understand volunteerism as crucial to the nonprofit workforce—and for democracy.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:Syria: Landmines, Explosive Remnants Harming Civilians
Click to expand Image Nidal Ahmad stands near his olive farm in Aleppo, Syria on March 4, 2025. Its location near a former Syrian Army military camp has prevented him from harvesting crops for years. Last December, Nidal returned to check on his land and lost his foot in a landmine explosion. 2025 Hibatullah Barakat, Middle East Images via AFP via Getty Images Over 600 people, including children, have been killed or...
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:‘Disappeared’ Burkina Faso Journalists Feared Unlawfully Conscripted
Click to expand Image Guezouma Sanogo (L) and Boukari Ouoba. Private Avideo circulated on social media on April 2, 2025, showing three outspoken journalists from Burkina Faso in military uniforms. Guezouma Sanogo, Boukari Ouoba, and Luc Pagbelguem had been forciblydisappeared for 10 days and their reappearance raised concerns that the country’s military junta had unlawfully conscripted them.Human Rights Watch was...
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:Mozambique’s Parliament Approves Inclusive Dialogue Law
Click to expand Image New members of the Mozambique parliament are sworn in at the National Assembly in Maputo, January 13, 2025. 2025 Alfredo Zuniga/AFP via Getty Images Last week, Mozambique’s parliament unanimously passed into law the Political Commitment for an Inclusive Dialogue (Compromisso Político para o Diálogo Nacional Inclusivo), which aims to create platforms to discuss constitutional and political reforms...
Published on: April 07, 2025 | Source:Human Rights Watch Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Belarus
SummaryHuman Rights Watch (HRW) submits the following with respect to Belarus’s implementation of recommendations received during its 2020 Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This submission is neither a complete review of implementation of all recommendations, nor a comprehensive review of Belarus’s respect, protection and fulfillment of human rights in the domestic sphere.Since Belarus’s last UPR cycle in November 2020,...
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