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Chinese government officials are systematically using extreme forms of pressure to coerce rural Tibetans to relocate their long-established villages. Officials have relocated or are currently relocating 500 villages with over 140,000 residents to new locations, often hundreds of kilometers away.

One year on, the armed conflict that broke out in Sudan on 15 April 2023 continues. Since fighting erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their affiliated forces, thousands of people have lost their lives and 8.6 million have been displaced.

Daily Brief, 21 May, 2024

Iranians woke up on Monday to the news that President Ebrahim Raeesi, Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian, and several other government officials were killed in a helicopter crash in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. How Raeesi’s death will affect human rights in the country is already the subject of much commentary.

Karim Khan’s decision to seek arrest warrants for five people for grave international crimes committed in Israel and Palestine since October 7 in the face of pressure from US lawmakers and others reaffirms the crucial role of the International Criminal Court.

What happens to cargo ships at the end of their lives? Often, they wind up beached on shores in the global south where untrained and unprotected workers are tasked with breaking them apart in dangerous conditions. In this episode, Host Ngofeen Mputwbwele takes listeners to the beaches of Bangladesh where Human Rights Watch

In April 2014, Dionna—a native of Flint, Mich.—was experiencing the water crisis firsthand. To cut costs, Flint city officials had switched the city's drinking water supply from Detroit's system to the dangerous Flint River. The Flint River is naturally high in corrosive chloride, and the absence of certain phosphates that control metal corrosion in the water treatment process allowed rust containing lead to contaminate the water supply. Reports of foul-smelling, discolored, and off-tasting water began to arise, especially from Flint's working-class Black and brown communities.

In April 2019, South Korea’s Constitutional Court decriminalized abortion after finding the current laws unconstitutional. Although the deadline to amend the legislation has passed, abortion has been completely decriminalized in the country since 2021 and is no longer subjected to penalties.