

Myanmar Needs to Answer to UN Rights Body
Universal Periodic Review Should Address Broken Commitments, Impunity Rohingya gather behind a barbed-wire fence in the border zone...
Human Rights Watch
Jul 23, 2020


Belarus: Full-scale attack on human rights ahead of presidential election
The Belarusian authorities must end their crackdown on political opposition, activists and critics, and fully respect, protect, promote...
Amnesty International
Jun 29, 2020


In pictures: Indigenous nurse on frontline in virus fight
As the coronavirus pandemic has spread across Brazil, indigenous people have been among the worst affected. On the outskirts of the city...
Reuters
Jun 10, 2020


Egypt: Resilient Resistance to Fierce Repression
Small groups of protesters gather in central Cairo shouting anti-government slogans in Cairo, Egypt September 21, 2019. © 2019...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 13, 2020


Syrians in Egypt Fear New Restrictions Signal Worse to Come
The closure of a popular Syrian-owned restaurant in the east Alexandria neighborhood of Asafra over what an employee in the Alexandria...
Al-Monitor
Aug 27, 2019


Burundi forces United Nations to shut human rights office: U.N
FILE PHOTO: Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza claps after signing the new constitution at the Presidential Palace in Gitega Province,...
Genocide Watch
Mar 11, 2019


EU rebukes Saudi Arabia over human rights at UN forum
At least 36 countries including all 28 members of the European Union have signed a statement criticising Saudi Arabia's human rights...
Al Jazeera
Mar 11, 2019


Egypt: Activists, government critics hit by wave of digital attacks
Amnesty International | 6 March 2019, 00:01 UTC An investigation by Amnesty International has revealed that dozens of Egyptian human...
Amnesty International
Mar 11, 2019


Egypt Executes 9 Despite Claims of Unfair Trials
Egyptian police officers stand guard on June 29, 2015, at the site of a bombing in Cairo that killed Egypt’s top prosecutor, Hisham...
Washington Post
Feb 20, 2019


Egypt: Egypt to Throw Out Term Limits to Keep Sissi in Power
Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi speaks after being sworn in for a second four-year term in Cairo on June 2, 2018. (Egyptian...
Washington Post
Feb 16, 2019


They Starve You. They Shock You’: Inside the Anti-Gay Pogrom in Chechnya
By Andrew E. Kramer Ilya and Nohcho, gay men from Chechnya, sought refuge at a house outside the Caucasus region in southern Russia. Both...
New York Times 1
Apr 21, 2017


Chios: Syrian refugee critical after 'self-immolation'
More than 60,000 refugees are stranded across Greece [File: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters] CHICOS, Greece— A Syrian refugee is in critical...
Al Jazeera
Mar 31, 2017