![A Shariah law official uses a rattan cane to whip one of two men convicted of gay sex in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, January 28, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/01/202101asia_indonesia_lgbt_flogging.jpg?h=e5aec6c8&itok=IfdH7Al4)
![A Shariah law official uses a rattan cane to whip one of two men convicted of gay sex in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, January 28, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/01/202101asia_indonesia_lgbt_flogging.jpg?h=e5aec6c8&itok=IfdH7Al4)
Pressure Builds on Japan to Protect Child Athletes
Ensure Safe Sport Ahead of Tokyo’s 2021 Summer Olympics
![Soccer player holding ball in front of Olympic rings](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/07/2020ASIA%20Japan%20Taibatsu.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=yefgUuSn)
China Signals Roll-Back on Minority Languages
Growing Constraints on Mother-Tongue Education
![202003Asia_Tibet_main](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202003asia_tibet_main.jpg?itok=LAoqOWYn)
Proposed Pakistan Law Seeks Greater Control of Media
Government Should Protect Journalists, Not Suppress Free Speech
![Pakistani journalists hold nationwide protests to denounce rampant censorship, and hold a banner that reads: "black day," in Karachi, Pakistan, July 16, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/01/202101asia_pakistan_media.jpg?h=1205af70&itok=CR4zNdmm)
Mexico: Public Accountability, Privacy Under Threat
Government Seeks to Shutter Independent Agency Ensuring Access to Information
![A police officer walks outside the offices of the National Institute for Transparency and Access to Information and Data Protection (INAI) in Mexico City, Mexico.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/01/202101Americas_Mexico_INAI.jpg?h=6f8e2d4a&itok=1oE2DJdd)
70 Immigrants' Rights Organization Write to President Biden and Congressional Hispanic Caucus
![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)
Kazakhstan: Independent Union Under Threat of Suspension
Drop Lawsuit; Cease Interference in Trade Union Activities
![Kuspan Kosshygulov (center) is one of the workers at an oil construction company who went on a hunger strike demanding that Kazakhstan not liquidate the independent confederation of trade unions.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/01/202001eca_kazakhstan_kuspan.jpg?h=c12e0b96&itok=EAb1VZdK)
Brazil: Crackdown on Critics of Covid-19 Response
Bolsonaro Administration Uses Dictatorship-Era Law to Repress Dissent
![Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, without a mask, attends a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Brasilia, along with ministers and other authorities, most of whom are wearing mask, on September 7, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/01/202101america_brazil_covid_0.jpg?h=f22457f2&itok=JuvYFzdT)
Lebanon: Gaps Remain in Vaccine Program Planning
Build Public Confidence; Ensure Equitable Distribution
![Red Cross volunteers waiting with a coronavirus patient for a place in the intensive care unit of Rafic Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, January 11, 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/01/202101mena_lebanon_coronavirus.jpg?h=bec9e4ef&itok=2hapzcl_)
![Police arrest protesters in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, during demonstrations opposing the newly appointed president of the electoral commission, July 8, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/01/202101africa_drc_protestgoma1.jpg?h=484d6632&itok=cg8iKK6r)
Time to Stop Ethnic Profiling in France
Organizations Initiate Procedure to Push for Reforms to End Widespread Abuses
![Police officers perform an identity check and body pat-down of a young man in Paris, France.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/france0112_coverimage.jpg?itok=5hIOjKmp)
US: Newly Released Files Show Fast-Track to Deportation
Reveal How Asylum Seekers at Border Were Short-Changed on Rights
![Migrants seeking asylum wait in line with their case paperwork to meet with an attorney on Oct. 5, 2019, during a weekly trip by volunteers, lawyers, paralegals and interpreters to the migrant campsite outside El Puente Nuevo in Matamoros, Mexico.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/01/202101usp_unitedstates_asylumseekers.jpg?h=ac778ff2&itok=__Cr8evW)
New York City Should Support Street Vending for a More Just Recovery
Lifting the Permit Cap Would Make Thousands Eligible for Financial Assistance
![Street vendors and supporters march across Brooklyn Bridge during a rally in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, November 12, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/01/202101us_bhr_newyork_vendors.jpg?h=d5c62dad&itok=-U7PwXn4)
First Step Toward Redress for Wrong ‘Man in the Hat’ in Belgium
![Fayçal Cheffou, un journaliste qui a été confondu à tort avec l’« homme au chapeau », l’un des principaux suspects des attentats meurtriers perpétrés à Bruxelles le 22 mars 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/01/202101CCD_Faycal_Cheffou_FR.jpg?h=98f54bfa&itok=FHqiURyc)
France: End Systemic Police Discrimination
Civil Society Organizations File Class Action Challenging Ethnic Profiling
![Police search a man at night](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/06/202006eca_france_police.jpg?h=6af8ba7d&itok=avhtXGKg)