![Samia Suluhu Hassan, center, made history when she was sworn in as Tanzania's first female president at a ceremony at State House in Dar es Salaam, March 19, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/05/202105africa_tanzania_suluhu.jpg?h=a9b1ba5e&itok=gdgKOyy1)
![Samia Suluhu Hassan, center, made history when she was sworn in as Tanzania's first female president at a ceremony at State House in Dar es Salaam, March 19, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/05/202105africa_tanzania_suluhu.jpg?h=a9b1ba5e&itok=gdgKOyy1)
Spain: Missed Opportunity on Gender Recognition
Proposal Would Have Upheld Trans, Non-Binary People’s Rights
![The president of the Trans Platform Federation, Mar Cambrollé seen during a rally to pass the so-called 'Trans Law' in the Congress of Deputies in Madrid.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/05/052021LGBT_Spain_MarCambrolle.jpg?h=fa1c963e&itok=cMVqQJ3r)
Authorities in Kazakhstan Can’t Take a Joke
Instagrammer Faces Criminal Prosecution for Satirical News
![Temirlan Ensebek Kazakhstan Free Speech Detained](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/05/202105europe_kazakhstan_free_speech.jpg?h=87f4987b&itok=WnvNWHtY)
Uganda: Drop Charges Against Law Student
Michael Muhima Faces Prison Over a Tweet; End Criminalization of Free Speech
![Mike Muhima](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/05/202105africa_Uganda_Michael.jpg?h=34e43602&itok=03tU0HbV)
Malaysia: Free Speech Under Increasing Threat
Surge in Police Harassment of Journalists, Activists, Protesters
Belarusian Authorities Move to Silence Leading Media Outlet
Searches, Arrests of Journalists and Blocking of TUT.BY Websites
![Marina Zolotova take questions media after announcement](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/05/202105belarus_tutsby_free_speech.jpg?h=f14c36f8&itok=R5APPpVk)
The US Should Respect the ICC’s Founding Mandate
![The International Criminal Court, or ICC, is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, November 7, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/12/202012global_icc_building.jpg?h=310ac57c&itok=gS6zDxua)
Continuing Injustice: The Centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre
Written Testimony of Dreisen Heath Submitted to the US House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
![A view of the Capitol Building in Washington October 15, 2013.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/01/201609us_capitol_building.jpg?h=b82b5380&itok=YsP16zMQ)
Sudan: Lethal Force Used Against Protesters
Allow Peaceful Assembly, Reform Security Forces
![Sudanese protesters gather to commemorate the two-year anniversary of a deadly crackdown by security forces outside the army headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan, on May 11, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/05/202102africa_sudan_demonstration.jpg?h=2992ba0a&itok=legnkX9y)
The other global pandemic: Lost education
![A young girl wearing a face mask holds up a cell phone](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/05/202105crd_covid_education_main.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=DVlyPr13)
Community Response Initiative to Strengthen Emergency Systems (C.R.I.S.E.S) Act
Letter of Support for Assembly Bill 118 (AB 118 Kamlager)
Submission by Human Rights Watch to the UN Human Rights Committee in advance of its adoption of the List of Issues Prior to Reporting for the Republic of Mozambique
132nd session, June/July 2021
Egypt: Prisoner’s Family Detained for Torture Complaints
Release Mother Still in Custody
![From left to right: Abdelrahman al-Showeikh, Gamal al-Showeikh, Salsbeel al-Showeikh, and Hoda Abdel Hamid](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/05/202105mena_egypt_alshoweikh.jpg?h=b69e0e0e&itok=ZikJKA4c)
Europe’s Worrying Surge of Antisemitism
Protect European Jews and Uphold Right to Peaceful Protest
![police officers stand guard at synagogue in germany as antisemtism on rise](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/05/202105crd_antisemitism_rise.jpg?h=69f2b9d0&itok=tbmF31U_)