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December 4, 2024 News Release

India: Police Raid Rights Group in Delhi

Escalating Crackdown on Activists Contesting Hate Speech

 Indian Dalit rights activists protest against the police raid and illegal arrest of human right activists under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) during a protest in New Delhi, August 29, 2018.
December 3, 2024 Dispatches

Afghanistan’s Taliban Ban Medical Training for Women

Closing One of the Last Loopholes for Female Education

Pregnant women wait in the corridor of the maternity hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in Khost, Afghanistan, December 8, 2023.
December 2, 2024 Dispatches

Volkswagen’s China Joint Venture to Exit Xinjiang

Positive Step Doesn’t End Risk of Supply Chain Links to State-Imposed Forced Labor

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November 29, 2024 News Release

Thailand: Cambodian Refugees Forcibly Returned

Political Opposition Activists at Risk of Bogus Prosecution in Cambodia

Detainees stand behind cell bars at the police immigration detention center in Bangkok, Thailand, January 21, 2019.
November 28, 2024 Dispatches

Australia Passes Harsh New Anti-Migration Laws

New Legislation an Attack on Refugee and Migrant Rights

Activists gather in Brisbane's ANZAC Square to protest the indefinite detention of refugees and asylum seekers in Australian-run and funded facilities on the mainland and on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, January 19, 2022.
November 27, 2024 Dispatches

Indonesian Domestic Workers’ Long Wait for Reform

President Prabowo Should Seek Passage of Domestic Workers’ Protection Bill

Activists during a protest and hunger strike demanding that parliament to pass a bill to protect domestic workers, at the parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 14, 2023.
November 27, 2024 Letter

Joint Letter to GANHRI Regarding Review of the Accreditation Status of the National Human Rights Commission of India

November 26, 2024 Dispatches

UN Report Portrays Afghanistan’s Destroyed Media

Taliban Threaten, Detain and Abuse Journalists, Media Workers

The Taliban flag flies over a National Radio Television of Takhar (RTA) building in Talogan, Afghanistan, on October 15, 2024.
November 25, 2024 Letter

Letter to President Dissanayake Regarding Human Rights Recommendations for the new Sri Lankan Government

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 Dispatches

This #16Days, Remember Afghan Women and Girls

Enduring Taliban Abuses, Forgotten Globally, But Still Resisting

An Afghan woman weaves a carpet at a factory on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, November 11, 2024.
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 Witness

“I Didn’t Think the Military Would Lay Mines in My House”

Accounts from Landmine Survivors in Myanmar

Hla Win walks with crutches near her son at a displacement camp near Pekon township, Myanmar, July 29, 2023.
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 Dispatches

Concerns Grow for Health of Detained Chinese Lawyer

Xu Zhiyong Endures Inhumane Treatment While Serving Unjust Sentence

Human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong in Beijing, China.

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