December 18, 2020
December 18, 2020
Trending Rights Tweets of 2020
![A woman carries a white-red-white flag as law enforcement officers block the street during an opposition rally against presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/12/202012global_top_tweets.jpg?h=6acbff97&itok=uU2zGZa6)
December 18, 2020
Italy: Flawed Migrant Regularization Program
Opportunity to Learn Lessons for Future
![An immigrant worker picks clementines in Corgiliano-Rossano, Calabria, southern Italy, December 12, 2020. ©](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/12/202012ec_italy_regularization.jpg?h=6f8e2d4a&itok=QrMkjDku)
December 18, 2020
Western Sahara: Morocco Cracks Down on Activists
US Recognition of Moroccan Sovereignty Doesn’t Change Territory’s Status
December 18, 2020
Tanzanian Activist Still Jailed One Year On
Tito Magoti and His Friend Arbitrarily Detained
![Tito Magoti and Theodory Giyani attend a court hearing in Dar es Salaam on December 24, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/12/202012africa_tanzania_magoti.jpg?h=05fa261e&itok=51YomuA-)
December 17, 2020
Russia Is Cracking Down on Political Performance Art. It Should Listen, Not Lash Out.
![Pussy Riot’s “Caution: Fragile” performance, Moscow. November 28, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/12/202012eca_russia_pussyriot.jpg?h=b2ba47e4&itok=71dLBvhv)
December 17, 2020
Why Are Russians Paying for Bombing Schools in Syria?
![Woman and child in rubble in Idlib](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/10/202007CC_Syria_Idlib.jpg?h=4cce6f57&itok=jZz1mh_H)
December 17, 2020
Kazakhstan Adopts Long-Promised Amendments to Trade Union Law
Authorities Should Register Shuttered Trade Unions, Confederation
![Workers at the ArcelorMittal steel plant in Temirtau, June 13, 2012.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-11-eca-kazakhstan-main.jpg?itok=DdK4EIAu)
December 17, 2020
Romanian Court Slams Law Banning Discussion of Gender in Education
Law Curtailed Rights to Freedom of Expression, Health, Non-discrimination
![The Constitutional Court of Romania, July 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/12/202012europe_romania_court.jpg?h=3aef9282&itok=zlOv46AW)
December 17, 2020
France: Law for Responsible Asset Return Urgently Needed
ICJ Rejects Challenge to Confiscating “Ill-Gotten” Mansion
![201904europe_france_africa_equitorialguinea_obiang](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201904europe_france_africa_equitorialguinea_obiang.jpg?itok=6Gnd82iE)
December 17, 2020
Peru: Serious Police Abuses Against Protesters
Ensure Accountability; Prevent Future Abuses
![A woman lights a candle at a memorial for protesters who were injured or killed in Lima in November 2020, outside of Peru’s Congress building.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/12/202012americas_peru_police_abuse.jpg?h=78f13c78&itok=fc_pDOxs)
December 17, 2020
South Asia: Justice, Services Can Curb Sexual Violence
Death Penalty Push Ignores Real Solutions to Regional Failings
December 17, 2020
Egypt: Collective Punishment in Scorpion Prison
New Restrictions on Ventilation, Electricity Follow Suspicious Killings
![A satellite photograph of Scorpion Prison taken in September 2016. Inmates suffer abuses in secret and are denied most access to the outside world. Satellite imagery](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/egypt0916_prison-01.jpg?itok=4aMz2KuV)
December 17, 2020
Hungary’s Family Minister Undermines Equality for Women
Government Should Act to Redress Domestic Violence and Pay Gaps
December 16, 2020
Saudi: Terrorism Court Rushes Activist’s Unfair Trial
Charges Relate Solely to Peaceful Women’s Rights Activism
![Prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul had been on hunger strike for six days before Saudi authorities finally allowed her parents to visit on August 31, according to family members. Al-Hathloul had spent almost three months before that in incommunicado detention.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/09/202009mena_saudi%20arabia_loujain.jpg?h=c33107fd&itok=ZABV8hy7)