Iran: Environmentalists Face Arbitrary Detention
Iranian authorities should immediately release eight environmental activists detained for six months unless they can immediately charge them with recognizable crimes and produce evidence to justify their continued detention, Human Rights Watch said on...
Syria: Armed Group Recruiting Children in Camps
The People’s Protection Units (YPG), the largest member of the Syrian Democratic Forces military alliance in northeast Syria, has been recruiting children, including girls, and using some in hostilities despite pledges to stop the practice, Human...
Businesses, don’t risk forced labour affecting your cotton
Anti-Slavery has worked to end state-sponsored forced labour in the cotton sector in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan for a decade. We have witnessed some changes – particularly in Uzbekistan – so, should businesses now start feeling it is safe to invest...
Legal charges initiated by Turkey against Turkish Cypriot journalists Şener Levent and Ali Osman should be dropped, urges OSCE Representative
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, on August 2, Harlem Désir in a letter to the Turkish authorities expressed his concern over recent judicial action launched by the country’s prosecution against two journalists of the Turkish Cypriot daily...
Chinese Police Remove Professor During Broadcast of VOA Program
Chinese police broke into the home of a retired Shandong University professor who is critical of China's human rights record as he was expressing via a telephone interview his opinions on the Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin television show, Issues...
UN officials call for children’s rights to be respected in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel
On 12 July 2018 in the State of Palestine, 8-year old Hamid looks out over the old city of...
Malaysia: Drop Remaining Sedition Cases
The Malaysian attorney general's office should withdraw all pending cases under the country’s abusive Sedition Act of 1948, Human Rights Watch said on Aug 01, 2018. The recently formed Pakatan Harapan government should promptly seek repeal of the law...
Greece: Sick Children Blocked From Care
Screenshot taken from video footage of an Afghan woman with her 15-year-old daughter who...
Syria: Thousands of Displaced Confined to Camps
The de facto authorities of two areas of northeast Syria are unlawfully restricting the movement of people who escaped from Islamic State (also known as ISIS)-held areas in displacement camps, Human Rights Watch said on Aug 01, 2018.
Analysts Question Myanmar's 'Independent' Human Rights Commission
A new government commission investigating human rights abuses in Myanmar's Rakhine state is being criticized by skeptics a day after it was announced.
