Category: Human Rights

City councilors are considering splitting ties with Winnipeg’s sister city in China over concerns about human rights abuses in that country. Winnipeg has been in a sister city relationship with Chengdu, China, since 1988. Read more: Vote passes recognizing China’s treatment of Uyghurs as genocide Read next: ‘Total fraud’: U.S. Rep. George Santos faces calls […]

(Jakarta) – Singapore’s government resumed executions and pressured activists and lawyers handling death row cases in 2022, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023. The government also repressed rights to free expression and peaceful assembly and arrested people attempting to exercise those rights. “Singapore authorities emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic and went […]

Consider a world where everyone may support a human rights group secretly and without the federal government’s involvement. Or a place where people are escaping conflict could securely buy necessities without carrying around a lot of cash. It refers to the crypto exchange industry. Credits: iStock A digital asset known as blockchain employs cryptography to […]

(New York) – Governments in Latin America and the Caribbean should address chronic human rights concerns, including poverty, inequality, corruption, insecurity, and environmental degradation while protecting democracy, Human Rights Watch said today, in its World Report 2023. Longstanding failure to address these concerns has been used by some politicians to justify policies that restrict or […]

The exhibit opens to the public Friday, January 13 at noon. Photo by Donnell Suggs/The Atlanta Voice The National Center for Civil and Human Rights located in the heart of downtown and only blocks from Dr. Martin Luther King‘s childhood home will be home to a special collection of documents, speeches, and photos from the […]

(London) – The United Kingdom government repeatedly sought to damage and undermine human rights protections in 2022, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023.  “In 2022, we saw the most significant assault on human rights protections in the UK in decades,” said Yasmine Ahmed, UK director at Human Rights Watch. “From your right to […]

1/4 Ongoing protests, like those taking place in China over “zero-COVID” policies, put extreme pressure on authoritarian regimes throughout 2022 — a sign that totalitarian regimes were increasingly losing their grip on power, according to new analysis by Human Rights Watch. File Photo by Mark R. Cristino/EPA-EFE Jan. 12 (UPI) — Relentless public protests in […]

(Berlin, January 12, 2023) – Belarusian authorities further escalated their crackdown on dissenting voices and doubled down on eviscerating the vestiges of civil society during 2022, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023. Belarusian authorities have prosecuted human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, opposition politicians, trade union representatives, activists, and peaceful protesters, and brutally […]

(Istanbul) – Turkey’s government has increased its censorship powers and targeted perceived critics and opponents with bogus criminal proceedings and prison sentences in advance of 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023. On December 14, 2022, an Istanbul court imposed a prison sentence on the city’s mayor, Ekrem […]