US Program Executive Director Nicole Austin-Hillery delivers Human Rights Watch’s Item 9 statement to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). This statement was for the UNHRC general debate on racism and racial discrimination which took place March 19, 2021.

Power of the Streets Episode 6: How do you prove that the home you fled was unsafe, if you could never report the violence you faced there? Thomars Shamuyarira is a Zimbabwean migrant rights activist living in South Africa. He speaks on South Africa’s restrictive asylum process and the experiences of LGBT people from

Power of the Streets Episode 5: What’s it like being a vocal African woman online? Entrepreneur Carol Ndosi discusses the importance of women’s voices on the internet in Tanzania, and how her work led to the creation of support systems for women who are trolled on social media. Check out Women at Web’s work on Twitter using

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Women's Independence in Qatar is Severely Restricted by Male Guardianship Laws (Marriage)

Women's Independence in Qatar is Severely Restricted by Male Guardianship Laws

Ensure Rights to Personal Security, Privacy, Nondiscrimination

On November 1, a Novy Chas photographer, Dmitry Dmitriyev, was reporting on a peaceful Sunday protest in Minsk when officers in civilian clothes, military vests, and helmets detained him using violence and pushing him to the ground. They took Dmitriyev to a police vehicle, where riot police officers beat and kicked him. He said he was later diagnosed with a perforated eardrum and a severe ear infection that resulted from it. © 2020 Yana Trusilo for Novy Chas