Human Rights | WPN World People News

A 12-year-old boy crushes stones at Homase processing site, Amansie Central district, Ashanti Region, Ghana.

The United States should make the need for progress on key human rights issues in China a top priority in the final US-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue (S&ED) for the Obama administration, Human Rights Watch said on 5 June. The talks, involving more than a dozen agencies from each government, will be held in Beijing from June 6-8, 2016.

On 1 June 2016, UNICEF goodwill ambassador Ricky Martin plays football with Syrian refugee children at Al-Hissa informal refugee settlement in northern Lebanon.

As the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza entered its 50th year, Human Rights Watch called on JUNE 5 on the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to open a formal investigation into serious international crimes committed in Palestine by Israelis and Palestinians.

Children at the protection of civilians (POC) site in Malakal town, South Sudan.

A submunition or "skeet" from a BLU-108 canister from a CBU-105 Senor Fuzed Weapon found by the main road between Sanaa and Saada, about 250 meters south of the al-Amar village on May 16, 2015.

The parties to the conflict in Yemen should release captured children and make a commitment to not re-enlist child soldiers, Human Rights Watch said on June 2. Parties on all sides of the conflict have used child soldiers, who are an estimated one-third of the fighters in Yemen.

The Chinese government should cease its denial about the state’s role in the massacre of unarmed pro-democracy protesters and citizens around June 4, 1989, and acknowledge the government’s responsibility for the killings, detentions, and persecution associated with suppression of the protests, Human Rights Watch said on 1 June.

Ukrainian authorities should immediately drop a ban on 17 Russian journalists and protect media freedom, Human Rights Watch said on 1 June. On May 27, 2016, President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree to implement a May 20 National Security and Defense Council resolution barring 17 Russian reporters, editors, and media executives from entering Ukraine through December 31, 2017.