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September 20, 2024

UN: World Leaders Should Act to End Rights Crises

World leaders gathering for the United Nations General Assembly’s annual General Debate should call for action to end the global human rights crises, Human Rights Watch said.
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September 20, 2024

UK Government Should End Cruel ‘Two-Child Limit’ Now

The United Kingdom Labour Party is about to meet for its annual conference. Now that Labour is in government, with their leader Keir Starmer as prime minister, it should act to strengthen social security, and tackle poverty and inequality.
Children play in a park on a housing estate in Redcar, Teesside, May 17, 2023.
September 20, 2024

Protect Women and Girls in DR Congo’s Prisons

A September 9 internal report by the United Nations Population Fund found that 268 out of the 348 women held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Makala prison were victims of rape and other sexual violence when an attempted prison break earlier this month turned deadly.
Police vehicles outside the Makala Central prison in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, after an attempted jailbreak left many people dead, September 3, 2024.
September 19, 2024 Audio

Afghanistan’s Women Judges, Three Years After the Taliban Takeover

When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, one of their early actions was to ban women from the legal profession. In this conversation, HRW’s Macarena Sáez is joined by Judge Marzia Babakarkhail, Justice Mona Lynch, Judge Basira Qazizada, and Judge Bahida Rahimi to discuss this crisis.
Women gather to demand their rights under Taliban rule during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 3, 2021.
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September 19, 2024

Foreign Agent Laws in the Authoritarian Playbook

From Russia to Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia to Hungary, “foreign agent” style laws have become a preferred instrument for authoritarians to extinguish critical voices, shield their rule from scrutiny and strengthen their hold on power.
On the night before the infamous “foreign agents” law came into force back in 2012, unknown individuals sprayed graffiti reading, “Foreign Agent! ♥ USA” on the buildings hosting the offices of three prominent NGOs in Moscow, including Memorial. 
September 18, 2024

“If It’s Not Racism, What Is It?”

Discrimination and Other Abuses Against Papuans in Indonesia

The 80-page report, “‘If It’s Not Racism, What Is It?’: Discrimination and Other Abuses Against Papuans in Indonesia,” finds that the protests, built around the Papuan Lives Matter social media campaign, were centered on human rights violations against Papuans, including denial of the rights to health and education, and peaceful calls for sovereignty for West Papua, where most Indigenous Papuans live. The report profiles cases of Papuan activists convicted for their role in the protests and the baseless charges brought against them.

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