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Rajapaksa Government Should Uphold Commitments to UN Rights Council (New York) – Sri Lankan security forces and intelligence agencies have intensified surveillance and threats against families of...

End Arbitrary Detention, Ill-Treatment (Nairobi) – The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child’s call for Rwanda to take “urgent measures” to end abuse of street children should be...

Authorities Should Ensure Safety of All Refugees Brad Adams Asia Director Taher, a Rohingya Christian pastor, and his 14-year-old daughter were abducted from their shelter in a refugee camp in...

JOINT STATEMENT BY 29 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS We, the 29 undersigned organizations, call on the Government of Myanmar to immediately lift restrictions on mobile...

Stop Use; Secure and Destroy Stocks (Beirut) – Forces affiliated with the Libyan National Army (LNA) used cluster munitions in a residential area in Tripoli on December 2, 2019, Human Rights Watch...

No Political Will to Prosecute Powerful Perpetrators (New York) – Two recent cases in Afghanistan highlight the failure of authorities to prosecute sexual assault implicating powerful people, Human...

Ex-President Bashir May Finally Face Trial for Alleged Darfur Crimes (Khartoum) – Sudan’s leaders say that they will cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which could mean that...

(Washington, DC) – A United States government program exposes children, as well as their parents, seeking asylum to serious risk of assault, mistreatment, and trauma while waiting for their cases to...

Il faut enquêter sur les abus et garantir la justice (Nairobi) – Des séparatistes armés dans les régions anglophones du Cameroun ont enlevé plus d’une centaine de personnes, incendié des biens et...

Investigate Abuses; Ensure Justice (Nairobi) – Armed separatists in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions kidnapped over 100 people, burned property, and threatened voters in the period before the February...