Myanmar Filmmaker Sentenced to Life in Prison
Release Shin Daewe and Others Unfairly Convicted
![Portrait of filmmaker Shin Daewe.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2024/01/202401asia_myanmar_shin_daewe.jpeg?h=a1e1a043&itok=WbYAPU-y)
Global Rights Crises Deepen as World Leaders Shy Away
Principled Diplomacy Critical to Uphold Human Rights Framework
![World Report collage](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2024/01/202401world_report_collage.jpg?h=67bd4490&itok=t-jLt17e)
Brazil: Mixed Rights Record for Lula’s First Year
Administration Should Defend Human Rights Abroad Consistently
![People take part in a demonstration by the Movimento Negro (Black Movement) against police violence and operations in the favelas, São Paulo, Brazil, August 24, 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2023/12/202312ame_brazil_protest_police_violence.jpg?h=6f22a9f1&itok=WZtOx0tK)
Asia: Regional Leadership Needed on Human Rights
Worsening Repression Puts Rights at Risk at Home and Abroad
![collage of 2023 events in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and the Philippines.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2024/01/202401asia_wr_collage.jpg?h=2e111cc1&itok=rkZhKKsU)
Israel/Palestine: Unprecedented Killings, Repression
Urgent Action Needed to Prevent Further Mass Atrocities
![A resident walks amid the rubble of residential buildings after Israeli airstrikes in al-Zahra neighborhood in the Gaza Strip, October 19, 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2024/01/202312mena_israel_palestine_wr.jpg?h=b8c0c725&itok=mk8fGoeI)
EU: Falling Short of Protecting Those Most in Need
Policies Expose Gap Between Commitments, Practice on Rights
![People take part in a march on the 34th anniversary of the first democratic elections in postwar Poland, in Warsaw, Poland, June 4, 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2023/12/202312eca_eu_wr_0.jpg?h=a5d057f6&itok=4f5w8TIu)
Politicized Courts, Muzzled Media as Türkiye Reaches 100
Erdogan Re-elected as Rule of Law Crisis Deepens
![A woman waits beside a building that collapsed in the February 6 earthquakes that devastated provinces of southern Türkiye and killed over 50,000 people, injuring and displacing hundreds of thousands more. Pazarcık, Kahramanmaraş province, February 13, 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2023/12/202312eca_turkey_wr.jpg?h=e93a7206&itok=1BaodE9h)
UK Government Severely Eroded Human Rights in 2023
Stop Curtailing Rights at Home; End Foreign Policy Double Standards
![Protesters hold placards outside the UK’s Supreme Court as it rules that the UK Government's Rwanda asylum plan is unlawful, London, United Kingdom, November 15, 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2023/11/202311eca_united_kingdom_protestors_rwanda_asylum_plan.jpg?h=a49d782d&itok=nr4mUYnh)
Belarus: Crackdown Amid Growing Information Vacuum
Politically Motivated Repression; Attacks on Critics in Exile
![Activists gather in support of ‘Freedom to Political Prisoners of Belarus’ on Sunday, May 21, 2023, at the Market Square in Krakow, Poland .](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2024/01/202312eca_belarus_wr.jpg?h=10144aec&itok=klfz84vn)
Central Asia: Renewed Engagement Offers Rights Opportunities
Western States Should Push for Concrete Reforms
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Russia: New Heights on Repression
No Space For Dissent, Opposition Pushed Into Exile or Behind Bars
![Russia WR](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2024/01/202312eca_russia_wr.jpg?h=1687c988&itok=Z55gqjTg)
Philippines: ‘Red-Tagging’ Puts Activists at Risk
Pledging to Improve Rights, President Marcos Should Address Longstanding Problems
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Singapore: Decade-High Surge in Executions
Media Freedom in Decline; Human Rights Defenders Targeted
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![A Christian man looks at a home vandalized by a Muslim mob in Jaranwala, Pakistan, August 17, 2023.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2024/01/202312asia_pakistan_wr.jpg?h=30e01b64&itok=vu7rnA3W)