Lebanon: Migrant Family Detained
Lebanon’s General Security has detained a Sudanese-Sri Lankan family of seven, including four children under age 18, threatening to deport the parents to different countries for lacking residency papers, the Anti-Racism Movement (ARM), Amnesty...
Cluster Munitions: Ban Treaty Is Working
No state party to the 2008 treaty prohibiting cluster munitions has violated the prohibition on using these weapons, while very few outside the treaty engage in this banned activity either, Human Rights Watch said on August 20, 2019 during the release...
India: Restore Kashmir’s Internet, Phones
The Indian government’s lengthy shutdown of the internet and telephones in Jammu and Kashmir inflicts disproportionate harm on the population and should be immediately lifted, Human Rights Watch said on August 28, 2019. The disruption to services...
‘There has never been a more urgent time,’ to safeguard children’s right to safe water and sanitation, says UNICEF
A young boy carries water in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Iraq: School Doors Barred to Many Children
The Iraqi government is denying thousands of children whose parents have a perceived Islamic State (also known as ISIS) affiliation of their right to access an education, Human Rights Watch said on August 28, 2019. The children, who were born or lived...
Nigeria: Anguish, Poverty Confront Trafficking Survivors
Many survivors of sex and labor trafficking struggle with unaddressed health challenges, poverty, and abhorrent conditions upon their return to Nigeria. Nigerian authorities have failed to provide the assistance that survivors need to rebuild their...
Sri Lankan authorities must work ‘vigorously’ to ease simmering ethno-religious tensions, urges UN rights expert
Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief Ahmed Shaheed.
Egypt: 20 Rights NGOs Call On President Macron To Denounce Egypt's Human Rights Record During The G7 Meeting
It was a striking choice for France to invite Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to attend the 24-26 August G7 summit in Biarritz, for which the chosen theme is “the fight against inequality”. The number of Egyptians under the poverty line has...
Thailand: Investigate Detainee’s Death
Thai authorities should immediately conduct an independent and credible investigation into the death of a suspected insurgent after being interrogated in military custody. Abdulloh Esormusor, 34, died on August 25, 2019, after more than a month-long...
South Sudan: UN rights experts see little headway on peace deal amid spike in local-level violence
Child Soldiers are released in South Sudan in July 2019 as the country's efforts towards...
