April 12, 2021
North Korea’s Leader Warns of Famine
Kim Jong Un May Be Tightening Already Firm Grip on Power
![North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a closing speech at the Sixth Conference of Cell Secretaries of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea, April 8, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/04/202104asia_northkorea_kimjongun.jpg?h=b8671bf6&itok=ke8Jf5Mo)
April 12, 2021
Victims of Sudan Crackdown on Protests Await Justice
More Efforts Needed to Ensure Timely, Transparent Accountability
![Sudanese celebrate after officials said the military had forced longtime autocratic President Omar al-Bashir to step down after 30 years in power in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, April 11, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201904afr_sudan_protests2.jpg?itok=ZGJ5Cmv6)
April 12, 2021
Brazil: Remove Miners from Indigenous Amazon Territory
Bolsonaro Policies Fuel Deforestation in Indigenous Lands
![A mining site in the Munduruku Indigenous Land registered by Brazil's environmental agency IBAMA, May 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/04/202104americas_brazil_munduruku_mining.jpg?h=3fe45f0e&itok=y91M15pt)
April 10, 2021
Top Rights Tweets of the Week
![A person in Soweto, South Africa receives an injection as they participate in a clinical trial for a Covid-19 vaccine in June 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/02/202010africa_southafrica_vaccine.jpg?h=ae306bc7&itok=CZUXhl82)
![A sculpture of African slaves by Ghanaian artist, Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, at the beginning of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/04/201906us_reparations_peaceandjustice_preview.jpeg?h=1a165daa&itok=bQg1fy65)
April 9, 2021
Biden Needs a Middle East-Wide Human Rights Policy
![President Joe Biden speaks about foreign policy, at the State Department in Washington, February 4, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/02/202102us_biden_foreignpolicy.jpg?h=161f5c3d&itok=Cn-1CdoR)
April 9, 2021
Another Woman Killed in Scourge of Kyrgyzstan ‘Bride Kidnappings’
Authorities Should Provide Justice, End to Deadly Crime Against Women
![People attend a rally for the protection of women's rights in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, protesting the kidnapping and killing of Aizada Kanatbekova, April 8, 2021. The banner reads, "The Authorities are Responsible for Femicide."](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/04/202104eca_kyrgyzstan_protest.jpg?h=5cd3bbc6&itok=v5EbTlff)
April 8, 2021
Q&A: US Title 42 Policy to Expel Migrants at the Border
![An asylum seeking family from Guatemala stands on the Paso del Norte international bridge. After border agents turned the family away at the port of entry, the family swam across the Rio Grande.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/04/202104us_immigration_Title42_QA.jpg?h=2992ba0a&itok=kAYMryvL)
April 8, 2021
US: End Misguided Public Health Border Expulsions
Biden Administration Returning Asylum Seekers to Harm
![An asylum seeking family from Guatemala stands on the Paso del Norte international bridge. After border agents turned the family away at the port of entry, the family swam across the Rio Grande.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/04/202104us_immigration_Title42_QA.jpg?h=2992ba0a&itok=kAYMryvL)
April 8, 2021
China’s Techno-Authoritarianism Has Gone Global
Washington Needs to Offer an Alternative
![Chinese paramilitary police wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus stand guard near the portrait of Chinese leader Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate near Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Saturday, January 9, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/01/202101asia_china_covid.jpg?h=1c9b88c9&itok=53zy0VUW)
April 8, 2021
Groups Urge US to End Emergency Scheduling of Fentanyl-related Substances
Class-wide Scheduling Would Exacerbate Pretrial Detention, Mass Incarceration and Racial Disparities in the Prison System
![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)
April 8, 2021
UN Chief Should Support Remote Investigation in Xinjiang
Guterres’ Public Outrage Over Myanmar Should Extend to China
![In this Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, a guard tower and barbed wire fences are seen around a facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. China has responded with swift condemnation on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, a](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/201912asia_china_xinjiang.jpg?itok=NrPg1AHM)
April 8, 2021
Letter to the EU and Its Member States on the Myanmar Crisis
Call for Additional, Coordinated International Sanctions
![Protesters flash the three-fingered salute and hold candles during a rally at night in Yangon, Myanmar, March 14, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/03/202103asia_myanmar_protesters.jpg?h=e5aec6c8&itok=fkHFrNJE)