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March 29, 2024
During a Diet session last week, Japan’s Ministry of Justice announced it had broadened a directive initially sent to all penal institutions in 2014 that effectively bans the use of restraints on imprisoned pregnant women inside delivery rooms.
A sign in Japanese reads "check door lock" on a gate inside Tochigi prison
March 28, 2024
On March 27, immigration officials at the Ngwenya Border post between South Africa and Eswatini stopped Tanele Maseko, widow of murdered human rights lawyer and opposition activist Thulani Maseko, along with her two young children and her helper while they were trying to enter Eswatini.
A vigil decrying the assassination of Eswatini Human Rights Lawyer Thulani Maseko in Nakuru Town, Kenya, January 30, 2023.
March 28, 2024
Malian armed forces and Wagner Group foreign fighters have unlawfully killed and summarily executed several dozen civilians during counterinsurgency operations in Mali’s central and northern regions since December 2023.
Mali’s Foreign Affairs Minister Abdoulaye Diop (left) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a joint press conference following talks in Moscow, February 28, 2024.
March 28, 2024
The US state of Michigan may protect abortion rights in its constitution, but a key group remains in the lurch – people younger than 18. Parental consent to obtain an abortion is mandatory for Michigan’s minors, and those who cannot or don’t want to involve a parent are forced to defend their decision before a judge, an onerous process called a “judicial bypass.” Amy Braunschweiger speaks with Kylee Sunderlin, a Michigan judicial bypass lawyer with reproductive justice organization If/When/How.
Florida abortion graphic