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April 12, 2024 News

Sudan: One Year of Atrocities Requires New Global Approach

Investigations into Deliberate Aid Obstruction, Possible War Crimes Needed

(Nairobi) – As global and regional leaders meet in Paris to spotlight Sudan and mark the one-year anniversary of the country’s brutal conflict between Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF), they should make clear that…
A destroyed medical storage facility in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur province, Sudan, May 2, 2023.
April 12, 2024 News

Belarus Calls LGBT Lives ‘Pornography’

“Depicting” LGBT Relationships May Be Punishable with a Prison Sentence

Belarus has hit a new low in its targeting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. As of today, the definition of pornography under Belarusian law will include depictions of same-sex relationships as well as transgender people.…
Belarusian LGBTQ activists with white-red-white flags participate in the Warsaw Equality Parade, June 25, 2022.
April 12, 2024 News

Georgia: Abandon ‘Foreign Agent’ Registration Law

Proposed Bill Poses Grave Threat to Civil Society, Including Trade Unions

(Tbilisi, April 12, 2024) – The Georgian government should withdraw permanently its plans to reintroduce so-called “foreign agent” legislation, Human Rights Watch and five labor rights organizations and trade unions said in a statement released today…
Protesters march outside the parliament building in protest of “the Russian law” in Tbilisi, Georgia, April 9, 2024.
April 12, 2024 News

Germany: Landmark Vote for Trans Rights Law

Creates Gender Recognition Procedure, Upholds Nondiscrimination

(Berlin, April 12, 2024) – Germany’s parliament on April 12, 2024, passed a landmark law that allows transgender and non-binary people to modify their legal documents to reflect their gender identity through an administrative procedure based on self-…
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April 12, 2024 News

Germany’s Antisemitism Battle Needs Focus on Education

Brutal Attack in Berlin Highlights Need for Cross-Institutional Approach and Commitment

In early February, a 30-year-old Jewish student was hospitalized following an attack by a fellow student at Berlin’s largest public university, Freie Universität Berlin. Berlin’s authorities treated the attack as politically motivated antisemitic…
Beating of Jewish student intensifies deabte over Gaza conflict at Berlin’s largest public university, the Freie Universität, February 9, 2024.
April 12, 2024 News

Mali: Junta Suspends Political Parties, Associations

Action Undermines Fundamental Freedoms

(Nairobi) – Mali’s transitional military government should immediately reverse its suspension of political parties and associations, Human Rights Watch said today. The suspension violates both Malian law and the rights to freedom of expression,…
Abdoulaye Maiga, Malian minister of territorial administration, speaks at the COP27 UN Climate Summit, November 8, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
April 11, 2024 News

Thailand: Halt Forced Returns to Myanmar

Decision Not to Deport 19 Children Should be Expanded to All Refugees

(Bangkok) – The Thai government’s decision not to forcibly return 19 children to Myanmar should be expanded to include all refugees from Myanmar, Human Rights Watch said today. On March 12, 2024, officials from Thai immigration and the Ministry of…
Displaced people from Myanmar carry donated lunch boxes to their tents along the Thai side of the Moei River in Mae Sot
April 11, 2024 News

France: Groups Seek UN Intervention to Address Racial Profiling

(Paris, April 11, 2024) – Racial profiling by French police violates international human rights law, five French and international groups said in a complaint filed today with the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).…
Police officers check IDs of demonstrators near the Palais Vivienne event venue in Paris, France, April 6, 2021.
April 11, 2024 News

Nigeria: 10 Years After Chibok, Schoolchildren Still at Risk

Implement Safe Schools Plan to Protect Schools, Children

(Abuja) –Ten years after the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigerian authorities have failed to put in place and sustain crucial measures to provide a secure learning environment for every child, Human Rights Watch said today. Since…
The freed students of the LEA Primary and Secondary School in Kuriga at the state government house in Kaduna, Nigeria, March 25, 2024. 
April 11, 2024 News

Global Failures on Healthcare Funding

Pandemic Data Reveals Threats, Opportunities to Improve Systems

(Washington) – New data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that many governments around the world did not meet public healthcare spending benchmarks amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Human Rights Watch said today. The new information indicates…
A health worker checks her smartphone.
April 10, 2024 News

Saudi Arabia Hasn’t Earned Women’s Tennis Championships

Women’s tennis has advocated for women’s rights since before Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in the “battle of the sexes” 50 years ago. The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) was a prime mover behind Title IX, the U.S. law that gave millions of women…
Storm Hunter of Australia and Elise Mertens of Belgium during a match during the GNP Seguros Women's Tennis Association Finals in Cancun, Mexico, October 30, 2023. 
April 10, 2024 News

Greek Court Deems Surveillance Powers Unconstitutional

Court Demands Stricter Safeguards on State Monitoring

Greece’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, has declared unconstitutional a 2021 amendment that barred the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE), an independent body which oversees surveillance powers, from…
The Council of State of Greece building in Athens, July 14, 2015.
April 10, 2024 News

Thailand: Court Ruling Could Subvert Democratic Rule

Move Forward Party Faces Dissolution, Banning of Leaders from Politics

(Bangkok) – Thailand’s Constitutional Court will rule on a petition that could result in dissolving the country’s main opposition party and banning its leaders from politics, Human Rights Watch said today. The Move Forward Party (MFP), which won the…
Former leader of the Move Forward Party Pita Limjaroenrat, left, and the party's current leader Chaithawat Tulathon speak at a news conference
April 9, 2024 News

Indian Court, Finding Lack of Evidence, Grants Bail to Activist

Drop Baseless Charges; End Politically Motivated Use of Counterterrorism Law

India’s Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to the activist Shoma Sen nearly six years after she was arrested in 2018 on politically motivated allegations of supporting a Maoist insurgency. “We do not find prima facie commission or attempt to…
Activists demand justice for 84-year-old Father Stan Swamy, the Indian Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist, who had passed away earlier that month in New Delhi, July 23, 2021.

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