Myanmar: ‘Multidimensional and long-standing’ root causes behind rights minority abuses, says Bachelet
Rohingya refugee children wade through flood waters surrounding their families'...
Thailand: Court Dissolves Opposition Party
Thailand’s Constitutional Court dissolved the opposition Future Forward Party on February 21, 2020, on politically motivated allegations, seriously damaging the country’s return to genuine democratic rule, Human Rights Watch said on Febuary 22. The...
Tajikistan: Journalist Held on Baseless Charges
Tajik authorities have detained a prominent independent journalist, apparently for his writing, Human Rights Watch said on Febuary 21. Daler Sharipov, who has been detained since January 28, 2020 for “inciting religious discord,” faces up to five...
Australia: Don’t Cozy Up to Myanmar’s Army
Australia should avoid dealings with Myanmar that play down its military’s egregious rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne. Human Rights Watch urged the Australian government to immediately end...
Declaration of the European Council on the situation in Idlib
The renewed military offensive in Idlib by the Syrian regime and its backers, causing enormous human suffering, is unacceptable. The EU calls on all actors to cease hostilities immediately.
ACLU Statement Regarding Administration Plan to Deploy Elite Tactical Units to “Sanctuary Cities”
In the latest effort to pressure local law enforcement agencies to join its detention and deportation machine, the Trump administration now plans to send elite law enforcement tactical units into so-called “sanctuary cities” across the nation.
Approximately 1 in 4 survivors of female genital mutilation were cut by a health care provider
In Ethiopia, girls in Afar region undergo training to teach their communities about the harms of female genital mutilation....
Closing the gap: A strategy to strengthen community engagement and accountability in Africa 2020-2023
Almost 8,000 Cameroonian refugees have fled to Nigeria’s eastern and southern states of Taraba and Cross Rivers over the past fortnight, bringing the total Cameroonian refugee population in the country to nearly 60,000 people.
Syria: Failure to renew UN resolution on cross-border aid spells humanitarian disaster
Russia and China’s callous use of their veto power to stop the renewal of a UN resolution which expires on January 10,2020, will leave millions of civilians in northern Syria cut off from lifesaving aid, said Amnesty International on January 10,2020...
Following Soleimani Assassination, Center for Constitutional Rights Condemns Terrifying Replay of Fraudulent Grounds for War and Inevitable Human Suffering
In response to the Trump administration’s aggression in Iraq and Iran and the assassination of Iranian military Commander Qassim Soleimani, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement:
