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May 10, 2021 News Release

Nepal: Act to Avert Looming Covid-19 Disaster

Desperate Need for Supplies, Oxygen as Cases Surge

A family member mourns next to the bodies of COVID-19 victims at a crematorium near Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, May 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
May 6, 2021 News Release

Afghanistan: Health Care for Women Hit by Aid Cuts

Dropping Donor Support Threatens Essential Services

A new mother holds her hour-old baby in the maternity ward at Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 2020. She had travelled from neighboring Laghman province to give birth at the hospital. On May 12, 2020, unidentified gunmen attacked the hospital’s maternity ward, killing 24 people, including 16 mothers, 2 children, and a midwife. Three new mothers were killed in the delivery room. Another 20 people, including babies, were injured in the four-hour attack. Ongoing security concerns have lef
May 5, 2021 News Release

Cambodia: End Food Insecurity, Abuses During Lockdown

Ensure Aid Reaches Residents of Covid-19 ‘Red Zones’

Military Police patrol in a Red Zone to ensure people abide by the lockdown measures. Phnom Penh remains in lockdown as Cambodia takes drastic measures to reduce the spread of its worst COVID-19 outbreak to date.
May 3, 2021 News Release

UN: Stand with Bangladeshi Journalists on Press Freedom Day

Free Expression Under Serious Threat

Journalists work in front of a Covid-19 Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 20, 2021. 
May 3, 2021 News Release

EU: Prioritize Rights at India Summit

Provide Essential Medical Supplies; Urge India to Free Rights Defenders, Address Abuses

People suffering from breathing problems receive free oxygen support at a gurdwara, a place of assembly and worship for Sikhs, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease, in Delhi, India.
April 7, 2021 Dispatches

How to Chart an Equitable Exit from the Pandemic

On World Health Day, a Call for a ‘Fairer and Healthier World’

A man wearing a mask receives a vaccination in the arm
March 24, 2021 Letter

Coalition Calls for Equity in American Rescue Plan Funding

HHS and CDC Should Ensure Funding Addresses Disproportionate Impact of Covid-19 on Communities of Color

A resident of a nursing home is loaded into an ambulance in Texas.
March 9, 2021 News Release

Egypt: Provide Equitable Covid-19 Vaccine Access

Government Planning Opaque, Inadequate

Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed
March 4, 2021 Statement

Human Rights Watch Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the United Arab Emirates

80th Pre-Session

March 4, 2021 News Release

UAE: Greater Progress Needed on Women's Rights

Significant Discrimination Against Women, Girls in Law and Practice

A foreign domestic worker with a child under a billboard in the United Arab Emirates.
February 7, 2021 Letter

Joint Letter to the European Union Ahead of Meeting With Bahraini Delegation

EU-Bahrain Cooperation Agreement Must Depend on Human Rights Improvements

Bahraini political opposition leaders, activists, bloggers, and human rights defenders imprisoned for their roles in the 2011 pro-democracy protests.
February 3, 2021 Commentary

Not helping low-income countries get the vaccine could come back to haunt us

A health worker displays a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine in Istanbul, Turkey on October 9, 2020.
January 28, 2021 Report

Lebanon: Gaps Remain in Vaccine Program Planning

Build Public Confidence; Ensure Equitable Distribution

Red Cross volunteers waiting with a coronavirus patient for a place in the intensive care unit of Rafic Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, January 11, 2021.
January 26, 2021 Commentary

China's Covid Success Story is Also a Human Rights Tragedy

China's Official Covid Rates Are Down. But Has That Come at the Cost of Human Rights?

Chinese paramilitary police wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus stand guard near the portrait of Chinese leader Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate near Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Saturday, January 9, 2021. 
January 21, 2021 Letter

Joint Statement: Iran should base COVID-19 vaccine decisions on science

Paramedics work in a laboratory that tests samples taken from patients suspected of being infected with the new coronavirus, in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, Iran, March, 10, 2020.

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