Category: Human Rights

(Bangkok) – Myanmar’s army junta ought to order its safety forces to finish the usage of extreme and deadly drive in opposition to largely peaceable protesters, Human Rights Watch mentioned in the present day. On…

Government insurance policies and actions within the yr since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic have precipitated human rights crises across the globe. The…

Increased heat, extra frequent forest fires, and different excessive climate occasions fueled by local weather change are already harming kids in Europe at present and governments will not be doing sufficient to…

(New York) – The United Nations Security Council should urgently impose a global arms embargo on Myanmar in response to the army coup and to discourage the junta…

The European Union is ratcheting up the strain on Zimbabwe over the dearth of considerable reforms that have allowed…

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights immediately made public a decision calling on Jamaica to repeal laws prohibiting consensual same-sex conduct. The commission’s conclusions in Gareth…

Today, a Russian court sentenced Anastasiya Shevchenko to a 4-year suspended sentence for affiliation with an “undesirable organization.” While it’s a relief that…

Uzbekistan’s parliament is considering worrying amendments to the country’s Criminal and Administrative Codes, and to its Informatization Regulation, that would threaten the right to free speech.…

(Istanbul) – Turkish authorities have placed hundreds of student protesters under possible criminal investigation, Human Rights…