Refugees fleeing South Sudan pass one million mark
The number of South Sudanese refugees sheltering in neighbouring countries has this week passed the 1 million mark, including more than 185,000 people who have fled since fresh violence erupted in the country in Juba on July 8, UNHCR, the UN Refugee...
UNHCR, OSCE welcome decision to form Co-ordination Team to monitor implementation of refugees and displaced persons rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ Regional Representation for South-Eastern Europe (UNHCR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to BiH welcome the decision of the...
Animal Protection Groups Seek to Stop Steel-Jaw Leghold Traps' Return to New Jersey
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and the Animal Protection League of New Jersey (APLNJ) on September 15 provided video footage to all members of the New Jersey Legislature demonstrating the barbarity of enclosed leghold traps. In contravention of...
INDIA: Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez arbitrarily arrested and denied due process rights
Our organisations strongly condemn on September 16’s arbitrary arrest of Kashmiri human rights defender Mr. Khurram Parvez, and call for his immediate and unconditional release.
Egypt: Asset freeze is a shameless ploy to silence human rights activism
The Zeinhom Criminal Court’s decision on 17 September to freeze the personal and organizational bank accounts of a group of leading and award-winning human rights lawyers and campaigners over politically motivated accusations that they are using...
ACLU Seeks Intervention in Lawsuit Targeting Anti-Discrimination Protections for Transgender People and Women
The American Civil Liberties Union on September 16 filed a motion to intervene in a case challenging a section of the Affordable Care Act that prohibits health care entities from discriminating based on race, national origin, sex, age or disability....
A dangerous backward step for women and girls in Poland
Pregnant at 11, a girl raped by her own father, will have no choice but to give birth. Equally, a woman at high risk of dying in childbirth or of carrying a dead baby, will not be able to seek a termination. This will be the impact of new legislation...
‘We cannot let innocent people be buried by indifference,’ says Ban, receiving #WithRefugees petition
Just days before the 19 September Summit for Refugees and Migrants, at a ceremony in New York on 16 September, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accepted a 1.3 million signature-strong petition that expressed solidarity with millions of...
Vietnam: Drop Charges and Free Land Rights Activist
Vietnamese authorities should drop all charges and unconditionally release a prominent land rights activist facing trial for peacefully exercising her rights, Human Rights Watch said today. On September 20, 2016, a court in Hanoi will begin the trial...
Philippines: Independent Investigation of Duterte Needed
The Philippine government should invite an independent investigation involving the United Nations into allegations of direct involvement by President Rodrigo Duterte in extrajudicial killings, Human Rights Watch said on September 16. On September 15,...
