US: CIA Torture Revelations
The recent release of documents related to the US Central Intelligence Agency’s detention and interrogation program provide excruciating new details about CIA torture, Human Rights Watch said. On June 16, 2016, Human Rights Watch sent a letter to...
UN rights experts urge India to repeal law restricting civil society access to foreign funding
UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Michel Forst.
UN human rights panel concludes ISIL is committing genocide against Yazidis
Yazidi refugees, including several children, go about their lives in Nawrouz refugee camp, approximately 40...
Ethiopia: Protest Crackdown Killed Hundreds
Ethiopian security forces have killed more than 400 protesters and others, and arrested tens of thousands more during widespread protests in the Oromia region since November 2015. The Ethiopian government should urgently support a credible,...
Pakistan: Prosecute Rampant ‘Honor’ Killings
Pakistan’s government should urgently investigate and prosecute those responsible for the recent jump in reported “honor” killings in the country, Human Rights Watch said on 14 June. The government needs to send a message of zero tolerance.
Marking World Day, UN stresses need for coherent policies to end child labour
Child labour on family farms should be addressed in an appropriate and context-sensitive way that...
Human rights: opposition in Cambodia, prisoners of conscience in Tajikistan, continuing violations of human rights in Vietnam
Parliament deplores the worsening climate for opposition politicians and human rights activists in Cambodia, calls on Tajikistan to allow opposition groups, lawyers and journalists to operate freely, and urges Vietnam to put an immediate end to all...
Syria: UN agencies reach families with food in the besieged town of Darayya
On 9 June 2016, WFP and partners delivered food for 2,400 women, children and men in besieged Darayya.
School Doors Closed for Millions
Turkmenistan: Dissident’s Family Allowed to Leave
Turkmen authorities dropped a 13-year travel ban against three family members of an exiled dissident, Pirkuli Tanrykuliev, allowing them to leave the country on June 4, 2016, a coalition of human rights groups said on June 9. Tanrykuliev’s daughter,...
