Myanmar: End Arbitrary Detention of Human Rights Defender Khaing Myo Htun
Myanmar authorities should immediately and unconditionally release human rights defender Khaing Myo Htun and investigate allegations of...
Fortify Rights International
Feb 28, 2017
Yemen Conflict: Red Cross Appeals for Access to Key Port
The ICRC described the port of Hudaydah as a "lifeline" for the people of Yemen The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has...
BBC News
Feb 28, 2017
U.N. Human Rights Experts Unite to Condemn China Over Expulsions of Tibetans
By Edward Wong Buddhist monks at Larung Gar last year. A half-dozen United Nations experts have condemned the expulsions of monks and...
New York Times 1
Feb 27, 2017
Iran Human Rights Violations Continue Unabated
President Hassan Rouhani election was based on his “moderate” campaign, which seemed to signal a change in Iran on various issues,...
Siavosh Hosseini | The Media Express
Feb 26, 2017
Redefining Rape in Jamaica
By Graeme Reid A homeless youth from the LGBT community sits in the sewer where he lives in Kingston, Jamaica. (C) 2014 Human Rights...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 24, 2017
Duterte Vows to Kill 3 Million President of Philippines compares himself to Adolf Hitler
The president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, made perhaps his most controversial remark on record Friday -- openly musing about...
Genocide Watch
Feb 23, 2017
Malawi Amends Constitution to Remove Child Marriage Loophole
By Annerieke Smaak A 14-year-old girl holds her baby at her sister’s home in a village in Kanduku, in Malawi’s Mwanza district. She...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 23, 2017
Canada Commits 'Human Rights Violations' By Locking Up Children: Report
An average of at least 48 Canadian children are being held in immigration detention centres every year, harming their mental and physical...
The Huffington Post (Huffpost)
Feb 23, 2017
South African High Court Rejects ICC Withdrawal
South Africa’s North Gauteng High Court today ruled that the government’s attempt to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 22, 2017
A Step Toward Justice in the Central African Republic
Last month I visited Bakala, a town in the center of the Central African Republic where serious fighting between two rebel groups had...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 21, 2017
South Sudan Famine is A Collective Failure
By Jonathan Pedneault A boy watches sacks of food drop to the ground during a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) airdrop close to...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 20, 2017
Iraq: Looting, Destruction by Forces Fighting ISIS
Armed forces fighting Islamic State (also known as ISIS) to retake a town and four villages near Mosul looted, damaged, and destroyed...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 16, 2017
