CIA Leaders Should Denounce Use of Torture
At his confirmation hearing last month, Mike Pompeo, now head of the US Central Intelligence Agency, made clear that US law bars the CIA from using “enhanced interrogation techniques” – methods more commonly known as “torture.” So his hiring the day...
Nepal: Key Moment for Justice
The mandates of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission on Investigation of Disappeared Persons (COID) should be extended indefinitely to ensure that justice, accountability, and reparations are achieved for the thousands of...
UN report details 'devastating cruelty' against Rohingya population in Myanmar's Rakhine province
An IDP camp in Rakhine state, Myanmar.
Philippine Education Department Says No to Condoms
The Philippine Department of Education this week rejected a proposal to distribute condoms in public high schools. The proposal, made by the Department of Health, was an overdue response to the country’s worsening human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)...
Indonesia’s Religious Minorities Under Threat
Acts of religious intolerance and violations of religious freedom increased in Indonesia in 2016, with the country’s religious minorities bearing the brunt of the rise.
Iraq: Men Fleeing Mosul Held in Secret
Groups within the Iraqi military are screening and detaining men fleeing Mosul in unidentified detention centers where they are cut off from contact with the outside world.
EU: Put Rights Above Politics
The European Union and its member states should ensure that any migration cooperation with Libya and other North African countries puts the lives, rights, and dignity of migrants front and center, Human Rights Watch said on Feb 01.
US travel ban a 'significant setback' for those needing international protection – UN rights experts
Wide view of the Human Rights Council.
UN releases $100 million to sustain relief operations in world's most neglected crises
In Diffa, Niger, a family uprooted from Malam Fatouri, Nigeria, by Boko Haram shelter at a site for displaced...
KRG: Children Allege Torture by Security Forces
Boy prisoners in the yard of the Women and Children's Reformatory in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Many...
