Guinea: Deaths in detention and prison sentence for opposition members
Authorities in Guinea must investigate the deaths of at least four people in detention and end a wave of arrests targeting at least 400...
Amnesty International
Feb 2, 2021
Sri Lanka: Justice Under Attack
UN Human Rights Council Should Pursue Accountability (Geneva) – Sri Lanka’s government is aggressively attacking efforts to hold...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 1, 2021
77 Lashes for a Gay Couple in Indonesia
Troubling Trend of Anti-LGBT Actions By Kyle Knight Authorities in Indonesia’s Aceh province publicly flogged two gay men 77 times each...
Human Rights Watch
Jan 31, 2021
Violence May Delay U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan
The Biden administration is reviewing a deal between its predecessor and the Taliban for a May 1 deadline to pull all American troops out...
New York Times 1
Jan 31, 2021
Sri Lanka: UN Rights Chief Decries Mounting Abuses
Report Highlights Need for Strong Human Rights Council Resolution (Geneva) – The United Nations Human Rights Council , at its upcoming...
Human Rights Watch
Jan 30, 2021
Women Fleeing Venezuela Are Targeted With Sexual Assault As They Cross Into Colombia
Editor's note: This story includes details some readers may find disturbing. At a shelter for Venezuelan migrants in the Colombian border...
NPR 1
Jan 30, 2021
Chile police officer sentenced for killing of Mapuche farmer on 'historic day'
Charis McGowan in Santiago Fri 29 Jan 2021 11.00 GMT Camilo Catrillanca, 24, was shot during a vehicle chase Case highlights treatment of...
The Guardian
Jan 30, 2021
Colombia’s JEP indicts former FARC on War Crimes for kidnapping
Eight of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla’s most senior commanders have been formally charged by magistrates...
Richard Emblin | The City Paper
Jan 29, 2021
Holocaust Memorial Day: Jewish figures condemn Uighur persecution
Prominent British Jews warn China’s treatment of its minority Uighur population has chilling echoes of past genocides. At least one...
Al Jazeera
Jan 27, 2021
UN rights chief seeks sanctions against Sri Lankan generals: AFP
Michelle Bachelet accuses Sri Lanka of reneging on promises to ensure justice for thousands of civilians killed in the final stages of...
Al Jazeera
Jan 27, 2021
Uttar Pradesh: Where Religious Conversion Costs You 10 Years in Prison
Uttar Pradesh Sees First Arrest Under New Anti-Religious Conversion Legislation The eighth Indian state to ratify and implement an...
!a Jubilee Campaign 1
Jan 24, 2021
France: Country Report - January 2021
In October 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron proposed a law to "defend France’s secular values against “Islamist radicalism.”...
Genocide Watch
Jan 23, 2021
