Saudi Arabia: 3 Alleged Child Offenders Await Execution
Three Saudi men are awaiting execution for alleged, protest-related crimes committed while they were children. Saudi judges based the capital convictions primarily on confessions that the three defendants retracted in court and said had been coerced....
Gambia: Ban calls for release of detained protesters after death of opposition members
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Nepal: End Intimidation of Human Rights Commission
The Nepal government should immediately stop all intimidation and harassment of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and its staff and respect its independence in line with international standards, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and...
Turkey: Open Borders to Syrians Fleeing ISIS
North Korea: Kim Il-Sung’s Catastrophic Rights Legacy
As North Korea prepares to celebrate the birthday of the country’s late founder and perpetual president, Kim Il-Sung, on April 15, the world should urgently demand an end to the systematic and pervasive human rights abuses taking place today in North...
Australia: Turnbull Should Spotlight China’s Abuses
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull should use his first official visit to China to speak out about human rights concerns, Human Rights Watch said on April 12, in releasing a letter to Turnbull.
Ban highlights need to fight ‘genocide ideology,’ as UN reflects on 1994 atrocities in Rwanda
Rwandan refugees, who fled the genocide, returning in July 1994 from Goma, Zaire, (now the Democratic...
Malaysia: Ensure Independence of the Bar
The Malaysian government should reject a proposal made during parliamentary debates that the attorney general head the independent Bar Council, Human Rights Watch said on April 10, 2016. Such an action would give the government effective control over...
UN food aid reaches besieged Syrian city of Deir Ezzor by air
A WFP air drop.
Morocco: Victims of Attack Jailed for “Homosexual Acts”
Screenshot from a video apparently filmed by youths on March 9, 2016 in...
