UNAIDS urges end to gender-based violence in effort to reduce risk of HIV infection
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé.
Kyrgyzstan: Reports of Torture, Extortion by Police
Kyrgyzauthorities should immediately, thoroughly, and impartially investigate allegations that police illegally detained and ill-treated three people in connection with an armed robbery. Two of the men were hospitalized following alleged treatment...
Angola: Officials Implicated in Killing Protest Organizers
Angolan authorities should prosecute all state security officials responsible for the killing of two protest organizers who have been missing since May 2012, Human Rights Watch said. A confidential Interior Ministry report leaked to the Angolan media...
Russia: Stop Harassing Environmental Activists
Detention of Andrey Rudomakha on October 31, 2014
UN: Reject Mass Surveillance
The United Nations General Assembly should approve a new resolution and make clear that indiscriminate surveillance is never consistent with the right to privacy, five human rights organizations said in a November 20, 2013 letter to members of the...
First-ever Environment and Gender Index ranks 72 countries
Woman with baby carrying water back from the well to her village, near Catine, Mozambique
On Universal Children’s Day, put hidden violence and abuse in the spotlight, says UNICEF
As the world marks Universal Children’s Day - the anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - UNICEF is urging a much stronger light be shone on the millions of children in every country and at every level of society who are victims...
Zimbabwe: Water and Sanitation Crisis
The water and sanitation crisis in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, places millions of residents at risk of waterborne disease, Human Rights Watch said in a report released. Five years after cholera killed over 4,000 people and sickened 100,000 more, the...
Ghana: Urgent Need to Fix Mental Health System
At Heavenly Ministries Spiritual Revival and Healing Center, some people with...
Libya: Militias Kill Unarmed Protesters
Militias from Misrata fired assault rifles, machine guns, and heavy weapons at overwhelmingly peaceful protesters in Tripoli on November 15, killing several people. Ensuing clashes between armed groups and militias left 43 people dead and at least 460...
