Opportunities for All: Improving Reproductive Health and Education for Women and Girls in the Sahel Region
Niamey, 4 November 2015. The “Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend” Project was officially launched on 2 November 2015, under the patronage of His Excellency, Mr. Brigi Rafini, Prime Minister of the Republic of Niger at the Palais des...
Pakistan: Bring Killers of Journalist to Justice
Pakistani authorities should conduct a prompt and impartial investigation into the November 4, 2015 killing of journalist and rights monitor Zaman Mehsud, Human Rights Watch said on November 5. Those responsible should be promptly and fairly...
Papua New Guinea’s domestic violence crisis is being ignored
Ruth, 29, shows me a fresh wound, slowly healing, on the top of her head, while she stays at a safe house in Port Moresby. “About 6.30am. I was getting ready for work. We had an argument ... My husband threw a rock. My head was broken. No one helped...
UK: Press Egypt on Rights Crisis
British Prime Minister David Cameron should press Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to take urgent, concrete steps to address grave human rights abuses by his government, Human Rights Watch said on November 4. Cameron is due to meet al-Sisi...
‘Racial superiority’ myth must be debunked, experts tell UN event on challenges faced by people of African descent
UNICEF Good Will Ambassador, Harry Belafonte, addresses event “Confronting Silence Perspectives and...
Citizens’ initiative: “Every time they reject an initiative, it creates a million eurosceptics”
György Schöpflin
Refugee crisis: European Commission to give €28 million in humanitarian aid to Jordan
The European Commission will give €28 million in humanitarian aid to support Syrians displaced by the conflict in their host communities in Jordan.
UAE: A Move to Protect Migrant Workers
A United Arab Emirates ministerial decree that takes effect in January 2016 could help protect low-paid migrant workers from a practice that can contribute to forced labor. It is the first measure of its kind in Gulf Cooperation Council countries, but...
In Lesbos Tragedy, the Shape of Europe’s Migrant Scandal
On October 28, 2015, a Turkish fishing boat carrying some 300 people trying to...
Cambodia: Chilling Account of Attacks on Legislators
Two opposition members of parliament described in chilling detail how an organized group dragged them from their cars and beat them as they tried to leave Cambodia’s National Assembly building in Phnom Penh on October 26, Human Rights Watch said today...
