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November 21, 2024 Dispatches

UN Review of DR Congo Exposes Lack of Progress on Rights

Address Constraints on Rights, Civilian Protection in Conflict Areas, Accountability

People displaced by fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels at a camp on the outskirts of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, March 13, 2024.

November 21, 2024 Dispatches

Ugandan Military Court to Try Opposition Leader

Authorities Should End Military Prosecutions of Civilians

Ugandan opposition leader and four-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye, stands in the dock at the Makindye Martial Court in Kampala, Uganda, November 20. 2024.

November 20, 2024 Dispatches

Turkmenistan Forcibly Hospitalizes Human Rights Defender

Authorities Detain Soltan Achilova to Prevent Her from Traveling Abroad

Human rights defender Soltan Achilova, forcibly held in an infectious disease hospital in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. November 20, 2024.

November 20, 2024 Dispatches

Concerns Grow for Health of Detained Chinese Lawyer

Xu Zhiyong Endures Inhumane Treatment While Serving Unjust Sentence

Human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong in Beijing, China.

November 20, 2024 Dispatches

Trans Day of Remembrance Marked with Grim Murder Data

More Than 5000 Killed in Past 16 Years due to Lack of Legal Protections

People carry the names of murdered transgendered women as dozens of transgender women and allies gather to commemorate murdered members of their community on Transgender Day of Remembrance in Mexico City.

November 20, 2024 Dispatches

Study Finds Third of UK Children Living in Poverty

Ending Two-Child Limit Crucial to Protect Rights

Children play in a park on a housing estate in Redcar, Teesside, May 17, 2023.

November 20, 2024 Dispatches

Colombia Charges Former FARC Leaders with Child Recruitment

Transitional Justice Chamber Finds Torture, Killings, Sexual and Anti-LGBT Violence

Relatives of victims of extrajudicial executions and magistrates are pictured during a hearing of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Cali, Colombia on June 5, 2023.

November 20, 2024 Dispatches

Uzbekistan Targets 'Undesirable' Foreigners and Stateless Persons

Ignoring Objections, President Signs New Law Threatening Freedom of Expression

Chorsu Bazaar in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, July 26, 2023.

November 19, 2024 Dispatches

EU Adopts New Regulation to Curtail Forced Labor

Enforcement Vital to Tackling Forced Labor Globally

Workers carry bags as they harvest cotton in a field in Hami in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, September 21, 2016.

November 19, 2024 Dispatches

The NBA Risks ‘Sportswashing’ UAE Violations

Emirates NBA Cup Part of Reputation Laundering Strategy

November 19, 2024 Dispatches

Authorities Fail to Address Ethnic Violence in India’s Manipur State

Armed Groups Targeting Civilians in Reprisal Attacks

People run past burning vehicles of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during a protest to condemn the alleged killing of women and children in Imphal, capital of India's northeastern state of Manipur, November 16, 2024.

November 19, 2024 Dispatches

A Thousand Days of War in Ukraine

Civilians Need Greater Protection, Justice for Russia’s War Crimes

Firefighters extinguish a fire after a Russian attack on a neighborhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine, February 10, 2024.

November 18, 2024 Dispatches

Prominent Russian Rights Defender Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison

Criminal Prosecution, Draconian Ruling against Exiled Critic

Tanya Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch, with Sergey Lukashevsky, director of Moscow's Sakharov Center, at the Andrei Sakharov Anniversary Conference.

November 14, 2024 Dispatches

US Jury Awards $42 Million to 3 Iraqis Abused at Abu Ghraib Prison

Still No Accountability for US Military Abuses During ‘Global War on Terror’

A detainee in an outdoor solitary confinement cell talks with a military police officer at the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, June 22, 2004.

November 13, 2024 Dispatches

Libyan Minister’s ‘Morality’ Measures Would Violate Women’s Rights

Government Should Forcefully Disavow Regressive Proposals

Emad Trabelsi (2nd-L), acting interior minister in the Libyan Government of National Unity, holds a press conference in Tripoli, August 23, 2024.

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