![A 9-year old girl collects sand at a mining site in Uganda.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/06/202106CRD_Uganda_Gold.jpg?h=ef2d6e95&itok=aDkLccQz)
![A 9-year old girl collects sand at a mining site in Uganda.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/06/202106CRD_Uganda_Gold.jpg?h=ef2d6e95&itok=aDkLccQz)
June 8, 2021
UN: Promoting Rights Key to UN Chief Guterres’ 2nd Term
Secretary-General Needs to Denounce Powerful Abusive Governments
![United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks to the press at UN Headquarters in New York, November 20, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/01/202101un_ny_guterres.jpg?h=d4751ec0&itok=RRCOJFuL)
June 7, 2021
Cameroonian Human Rights Lawyer Detained on Bogus Terrorism Charges
Release Unjustly Jailed Critics, Human Rights Defenders
![A patrol of Cameroonian gendarmes during a political rally in the Omar Bongo Square, Buea, capital of the South-West region, on October 3, 2018. © 2018 Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/12/202012us_cameroon_TPS.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=sZLtLW-N)
June 7, 2021
Nigeria’s Twitter Ban Follows Pattern of Repression
Government Should End Restrictions on Free Expression
![Newspaper headline Twitter Banned in Nigeria](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/06/202105nigeria_twitter_banned.jpg?h=f3106082&itok=5nIEUiBs)
June 7, 2021
Bangladesh’s Unplanned Relocation of Rohingya Refugees to Bhasan Char Island is Risky
But the International Community Should Do Much More to Ensure that the Refugees Can Safely Return to Myanmar
![A man climbs through barbed wire fencing at a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, as a massive fire swept through the camps on March 22, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/03/202103asia_bangladesh_fire.jpg?h=82f92a78&itok=61WfG-jO)
June 7, 2021
Bangladesh: Rohingya Refugees on Island Fear Monsoon
UN, Donors Should Urge Protection, Freedom of Movement on Bhasan Char
![An elderly man carries luggage over his head as he walks he off a ship](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/06/202106asia_bangladesh_bhasanchar_main.jpg?h=9eb0d413&itok=cy1So2dW)
June 7, 2021
With Little Hope for Change through the Ballot Box, Iranian Civil Society Debates Strategy
![Iran's national flags are seen on a square in Tehran February 10, 2012.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201806middleeast_iran_flag_tehran.jpg?itok=pZVrOlvB)
June 7, 2021
Tribute to Artur Ligęska, Former Prisoner in UAE
![A photo of Artur smiling](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/06/202106mena_uae_artur.jpg?h=847efedd&itok=7znr78o3)
June 7, 2021
Human Rights Watch Letter to VP Harris
Put Human Rights at Center of Upcoming Migration Management Talks
![Kamala Harris is sworn in as vice president of the United States](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/03/202103us_kamala_harris.jpg?h=e5aec6c8&itok=V9xJW6Qh)
June 7, 2021
Q&A on Fossil Fuel Subsidies
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June 7, 2021
G7 Governments: End Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Concrete Plans Needed to Address Climate Crisis, Protect Rights
![A Uniper coal-fired power plant and a BP refinery steam beside a wind generator in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on Jan. 16, 2020. © 2020 Martin Meissner/AP Photo](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/06/202106germany_coal_fossilfuel.jpg?h=0f823dba&itok=qouo5jRV)
June 7, 2021
Detention of Refugee Shows Need for Policy Change
![202004us_detention_immigration](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202004us_detention_immigration.jpg?itok=ZnEg1Kzh)
June 7, 2021
Bahrain: Stop Denying Abuse of Detained Children
Children Beaten, Pepper-Sprayed, Denied Medical Care, Threatened with Rape
![Sayed Hasan Ameen, 16, has serious medical complications from sickle cell anemia but Bahraini authorities denied him family visits and access to medications in detention. He is being tried as an adult, along with other children.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/03/202103crd_bahrain_sayed.jpg?h=1bbc0e53&itok=PtqALRBm)