Turkmenistan: UN Blames Government for Activist’s Death
The United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) has found the Turkmen government responsible for the torture and death of a human rights activist, the Prove They are Alive Campaign! said on Aug 09, 2018. The activist, Olgusapar Muradova, died in state...
UN urges protection of indigenous peoples’ rights during migration
Santa Francisca Manzano is an indigenous woman from the high Andean pastures of Peru.
Papua New Guinea: Video Shows Police Brutality
Papua New Guinean authorities should promptly conduct a thorough and credible investigation into the beating of a boy by police in Kimbe, West New Britain, that was captured on video and shared on social media, Human Rights Watch said on Aug 09, 2018...
South Sudan: Release Peace Activist
The South Sudanese National Security Service (NSS) should immediately and unconditionally release peace activist and academic Peter Biar Ajak or take him to court and charge him with a recognizable crime. The authorities should also end the arbitrary...
Argentina: Pass Law to Legalize Abortion
The Argentine Senate, in a vote set for August 8, 2018, should approve a bill that would limit the country’s criminalization of abortion, which undermines the fundamental rights of women and girls, Human Rights Watch said on August 8. The bill passed...
Tajikistan: Allow 10-Year-Old to Reunite with Mother
Tajik security services forced an activist’s 10-year-old daughter, elderly mother, and brother off an airplane at Tajikistan on August 4, 2018, seven human rights groups said on August 7. They were on their way to Europe to reunite with the activist...
Central African Republic: Short Sentences Cheat Victims
Three-year prison sentences for three Congolese peacekeepers convicted for the 2014 murder of 11 civilians in the Central African Republic does not reflect the gravity of the crime. The sentences deny justice to the victims, who included women and...
Zimbabwe: Intensified Crackdown on Opposition
The Zimbabwe Security Forces and unidentified gunmen have intensified a crackdown on supporters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDCA) in the aftermath of August 1, 2018 post-election protests in Harare, Human Rights Watch...
Bangladesh: Rohingya Endure Floods, Landslides
The Bangladeshi government should relocate Rohingya refugees living in a severely overcrowded mega camp to safer ground in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued on Aug 05, 2018. The refugees, who fled the Burmese military...
Human rights experts denounce Trump’s attacks against media
Journalists being briefed during Intra-Syrian talks at the UN Office at Geneva in 2017.
