On May 19, 2020, 20 human rights organizations including the Legal and Human Rights Center in Dar es Salaam, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch sent a letter to Tanzanian President John Magufuli, urging the authorities to ensure that all detainees and prisoners have access to lawyers…
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Bangladesh: Cyclone Endangers Rohingya on Silt Island
The authorities should take immediate steps to ensure safety and transfer the refugees, including…
Sri Lankan Officials Stoke Covid-19 Communal Hate
Eleven years since the end of Sri Lanka’s long and brutal civil war, the government has disavowed promised…
Imagine discovering private – and perhaps intimate – photos of yourself online. Strangers are posting humiliating comments, with personal details, making you identifiable to the world.
This is increasingly a reality for women and girls in Nepal – with little response from the government.…
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Indonesia: Blogger Held Over Land Dispute Report
(Jakarta) – The Indonesian police in South Kalimantan province should drop criminal…
In Germany, Anti-Semitism Creeps into Covid-19 Protests
The right to peaceful protest is fundamental, but when demonstrations become a platform for racism,…
“The prime minister should act on his pledge to protect unaccompanied children and make sure that hundreds of vulnerable children are freed from dirty, crowded cells, sometimes alongside adults, where they are exposed to the risks of Covid-19 infection,” said Eva Cossé, Greece researcher at…
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DR Congo: Bloody Crackdown on Political Religious Group
The call by BDK leader Zacharie Badiengila, commonly known as Ne Muanda Nsemi (“the creative spirit” in…
US: Abusive Transfers of Asylum Seekers to Guatemala
The joint report by Refugees International and Human Rights Watch, “Deportation with a Layover: Failure…
In fact, Pakistan has had at least 43,966 confirmed cases and more than 900 deaths since March, and the numbers keep rising. Given minimal testing, the actual count is almost certainly much higher. At least 500 Pakistani healthcare workers have been infected too, which shows that despite the…
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