US Suit Risks Cloaking Immigrant Detention Abuse
California has a clear interest in monitoring dire health and safety conditions in immigrant detention centers in the state, three human and immigrant rights groups said on May 18, 2018 in a friend-of-the-court brief.
Saudi Arabia: Women’s Rights Advocates Arrested
Saudi authorities since May 15, 2018, detained a total of seven prominent women’s rights defenders, Human Rights Watch said on May 18, 2018. The activists have long advocated ending the ban on women driving and abolishing the discriminatory male...
Teenage girl’s death sentence spotlights Sudan’s failure to tackle forced marriage, gender-based violence – UN rights office
OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani.
Force used against protestors in Gaza ‘wholly disproportionate’ says UN human rights chief
Human Rights Council special session on “the deteriorating human rights situation in the...
Burundi: Killings, Abuse Ahead of Referendum
Burundi’s security services and ruling party youth league members killed, raped, abducted, beat, and intimidated suspected opponents in the months leading up to a constitutional referendum on May 17, 2018, Human Rights Watch said in a report released...
Central African Republic: Crucial Court For Victims
Recent violence in the Central African Republic makes the country’s new Special Criminal Court especially important as a means to offer justice to victims of brutal crimes committed during the country’s conflicts, Human Rights Watch said on May 17,...
Bangladesh: Skirting the Issues at the UN
The Bangladesh delegation to the United Nation’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva on May 14, 2018, failed to respond to pressing human rights concerns in the country, Human Rights Watch said on May 16, 2018.
Declaration by the High Representative, Federica Mogherini on behalf of the EU on the occasion of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, 17 May 2018
On the occasion of the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, the European Union reaffirms its commitment to combat all forms of discrimination and hate crime, on the grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity and sex...
Germany/Russia: Merkel To Meet Putin
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 18, 2018 in Sochi is a crucial opportunity to press for the release of a wrongfully detained Russian human rights defender and to raise other key human rights...
Gambia: Ex-President Tied to 2005 Murders of Ghanaian and Nigerian Migrants
A paramilitary unit controlled by then-Gambian president Yahya Jammeh summarily executed more than 50 Ghanaian, Nigerian, and other West African migrants in July 2005, Human Rights Watch and TRIAL International said on May 16, 2018.
