August 19, 2024
Read our latest publications:
Human Rights Defenders: A pending matter with the Colombian people by Juan David Gómez
Beyond the Pandemic: Ensuring Mental Health Recovery for America’s Youth by Kaylee Zimmerman
Impacts of Fossil Fuel Pollution in Texas and Louisiana by Jasmyn J. Tang, MPH
News Briefs
August 14, 2024 - HRRC Condemns Qatar’s Treatment of LGBTQ+ Man, Calls for Greater Transparency and Rights Protections
Other Breaking Human Rights News
August 12, 2024
‘I felt euphoria’: Ukraine’s borderland refugees praise incursion into Russia (Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian)
August 13, 2024
UN expert panel sent to Venezuela blasts lack of transparency in presidential elections (Joshua Goodman, AP News)
Tanzania Arrests 520 People in Mass Opposition Crackdown (The New York Times)
August 14, 2024
Need for an Urgent Rethink of International Response to the Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan (Human Rights Watch)
Critical minerals investment must avoid the mistakes of the past in African mining (Rama Yade and Sibi Nyaoga, Atlantic Council)
August 15, 2024
China's rhetoric turns dangerously real for Taiwanese (Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC News)
India: Authorities must protect protesters demanding justice after rape and murder of Kolkata doctor (Amnesty International)
August 16, 2024
Houthis Raid UN Human Rights Office in Yemen (Niku Jafarnia, Human Rights Watch)
Underwater sculpture installations highlight the dangers of climate change (Malcolm Brabant and Trine Villemann, PBS News)
August 17, 2024
The Rights Of Women And Girls In Iraq On A Downward Spiral (Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Misogyny to be treated as extremism by UK government (Helen Catt and Charlotte Rose, BBC News)
August 18, 2024
Venezuelans Mourn Loved Ones Killed in Protests, and Last Shreds of Democracy (Julie Turkewitz,The New York Times)
Cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed at least 22 people, health minister says (Samy Magdy, AP News)
Malnutrition worsening in Yemen's government-controlled areas, UN says (Mohammed Ghobari and Clauda Tanios, Reuters)
Foreign Office official quits over UK refusal to ban arms exports to Israel (Patrick Wintour, The Guardian)