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November 28, 2024 News Release

Kazakhstan: Ensure Journalist Gets Fair Appeal

Revise Anti-Free Speech Laws, Uphold Media Freedoms

Daniyar Adilbekov

November 27, 2024 News Release

Myanmar: ICC Prosecutor Requests Arrest Warrant

Key Step Toward Justice for Rohingya

Rohingya refugees walk through rice fields after crossing the border from Myanmar into Palang Khali, Bangladesh, October 19, 2017.

November 25, 2024 News Release

Sri Lanka: New President Should Reset Course on Rights

Dissanayake Administration Needs to Address Longstanding Abuses, Impunity

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (right) and Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya during the swearing-in of the new cabinet members on November 18, 2024, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

November 25, 2024 News Release

Lebanon: US Arms Used in Israeli Strike on Journalists

Three Killed, Four Injured in Apparent War Crime

Two destroyed vehicles and a demolished building where three journalists were killed in an Israeli airstrike at the Hasbaya Village Resort, in sourthern Lebanon on October 25, 2024.

November 25, 2024 News Release

Kenya: Justice Overdue for 2023 Protest Abuses

Adopt Fundamental Police Reforms, Reparations

Armed riot police officers run towards protesters

November 24, 2024 News Release

Mozambique: Security Force Crackdown Kills, Injures Children

Police Detain Hundreds Without Notifying Their Parents

A boy wears a “bullet-proof vest” made of cardboard while walking on the streets of Maputo, Mozambique, November 5, 2024.

November 22, 2024 News Release

SADC: Denounce Security Force Violence in Mozambique

Investigate Excessive Use of Force during Post-Election Protests

Police deploy amid opposition protests in Maputo, Mozambique

November 21, 2024 News Release

Palestine: ICC Warrants Revive Hope for Long-Delayed Justice

Governments Should Defend Court Amid Mounting Pressure

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan gives an interview with Reuters about Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, The Hague, Netherlands, October 12, 2023.

November 20, 2024 News Release

Thailand: Insurgents Target Civilians in South

Grenade Attack on Chinese Goddess Statue, Workers an Apparent War Crime

The concept art for the Guan Yin statue, Songkhla, Thailand.

November 20, 2024 News Release

Myanmar: Surging Landmine Use Claims Lives, Livelihoods

Highest Casualties Worldwide Since 2023

A member of the opposition Karenni Nationalities Defence Force holds antipersonnel mines planted by the Myanmar military and removed during demining operations near Pekon township, July 11, 2023.

November 20, 2024 News Release

Proposed US Landmine Transfers Gravely Threaten Civilians

Reprehensible Rejection of 1997 Mine Ban Treaty

A pile of shoes during the annual demonstration by NGO Humanity and Inclusion denouncing antipersonnel landmines and cluster munitions in Lyon on September 20, 2014.

November 20, 2024 News Release

Hong Kong: 45 Democracy Advocates Harshly Sentenced

Beijing Crushes Democracy Leadership in Mass Trial to Intimidate Hong Kongers

Elsa Wu, foster mother of activist Hendrick Lui, was taken into a police van outside a court

November 20, 2024 News Release

UN: Approve Next Steps on Crimes Against Humanity Treaty

Crucial for Countries to Support a Vote to Move Ahead

UN Headquarters

November 20, 2024 News Release

Iran: Flurry of New Death Sentences

Minorities and Political Prisoners Facing Execution after Rampant Due Process Violations

A demonstration on the anniversary of the death in custody of Mahsa Jina Amini with signs calling to stop the executions in Iran, September 14, 2024.

November 20, 2024 News Release

Tajikistan: Tajik Activist Deported from Germany Jailed

Berlin Should Request His Release, Ensure He Is Not Mistreated

Dilmurod Ergashev at a demonstration in Berlin on December 23, 2022 in support of Abdullohi Shamsiddin who was detained and ultimately deported to Tajikistan in January 2023.

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