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February 7, 2019 News Release

Afghanistan: Prosecute Abuse of Women Football Players

Alleged Sexual Assault, Injustice Violate Rights, Deny Equal Access to Sport

Afghanistan women’s football team.
February 7, 2019 News Release

Russia: Journalist Faces Unjustified Criminal Charges

Misuse of Counter-Terrorism Laws Against Media

Svetlana Prokopyeva, Pskov.
February 7, 2019 News Release

Syrian Rights Activist Honored

2019 Alison Des Forges Award Winner

Nujeen Mustafa
February 6, 2019 News Release

Brazil: Bill Could Shield Abusive Police

Would Put Communities, Other Officers at Risk

A military police armored vehicle passes by a person killed by police on April 7, 2016 in the Jacarezinho favela. Military police killed tow other people during the same raid.
February 6, 2019 News Release

Russia: Jehovah’s Witness Convicted

Prosecution Part of Nationwide Crackdown on Religious Group

Dennis Christensen after the hearing at the Zheleznodorzhy District Court in Oryol, January 28, 2019
February 6, 2019 News Release

Poland: Women’s Rights Activists Targeted

Attacks by Government Put Women, Services at Risk

Women’s rights supporters at a demonstration for International Women’s Day in Krakow, Poland, on March 8, 2018. The center sign uses the slogan “No Woman, No Country.”
February 5, 2019 News Release

Iran: Environmentalists’ Flawed Trial

Detainees Allege Torture in Detention

A campaign poster showing environmental activists, Taher Ghadirian, Niloufar Bayani, Amirhossein Khaleghi, Houman Jokar, Sam Rajabi, Sepideh Kashani, Morad Tahbaz and Abdolreza Kouhpayeh.
February 4, 2019 News Release

Cambodia: Acid Attack Survivors Denied Treatment, Justice

Government Fails to Enforce 2012 Law

Chantheoun, the victim of an acid attack in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in September 1997.
February 4, 2019 News Release

UN: Act to End China’s Mass Detentions in Xinjiang

International Fact-Finding Mission Crucial to Address Rights Crisis

Over 10,000 students and teachers in Hotan pledge loyalty to the “Motherland” in a mass ceremony.
February 3, 2019 News Release

“I’m Actually Freer Than They Are”

Chinese Rights Defenders Tell Their Stories of Government Harassment

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February 3, 2019 News Release

UAE: Pope Should Raise Rights Issues on Visit

Repression at Home; Deadly Campaign in Yemen

Pope Francis will meet with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, in the UAE on February 4, 2019.
February 2, 2019 News Release

Philippines: Congress Aims to Lock Up More Children

Lowering Age of Criminal Responsibility Would Impede Rehabilitation

In this photo taken last year in Manila, children are detained in a Bahay Pagasa detention center, the same type of facility the Philippine government plans to use  under a proposed new law that would lower the age of criminal responsibility. (c) 2018 Car
February 1, 2019 News Release

Vietnam: Hanoi Misleads UN on Rights Record

Widespread Violations Ignored During Geneva Review

Twenty-five political prisoners currently locked up for exercising basic rights. (c) 2018 Private
February 1, 2019 News Release

Senegal: Make Talibé Children a Campaign Focus

Candidates Should Commit to Ending Exploitation, Abuse

Talibés begging in downtown Dakar, Senegal, May 11, 2017.
January 31, 2019 News Release

Myanmar: Peaceful Critics Prosecuted

Repeal or Amend Laws Criminalizing Speech, Assembly

Demonstrators shout slogans at a protest against an amendment to Myanmar’s public assembly law in Yangon, March 5, 2018.

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