16 September 2020 Human Rights. Grave rights violations against anti-government protesters in Venezuela, “amounted to crimes against humanity”, UN-appointed rights investigators said in their first report on abuses inside the Latin American nation. In their findings published on Wednesday, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission
Security Force Abuses. Although the conduct of Guinea’s security forces, which have a decades-long history of human rights abuses and criminality, has improved in recent years, in 2018 the
Pakistan 2022. Grave human rights violations continued, including enforced disappearances, torture, crackdowns on peaceful protests, attacks against journalists and violence against religious minorities and other marginalized groups. A backlash against legal gains in transgender rights led to growing violence against transgender people.
The Attorney General’s Office launched 8,581 investigations on alleged police abuses committed from October 2019 to March 2020. By January 2021, it had closed more than 35 percent of them
A country’s failure to act against abuses by private individuals, such as domestic violence, can itself be a human rights violation. governments that commit human rights violations are held
. (For further information about Russia’s human rights abuses and violations in the context of its war against and occupation of portions of Ukraine, see Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for Ukraine.) Since 2015, Russia’s armed forces have conducted military operations, including airstrikes, in the conflict in Syria.
After 22 Years of Human Rights Abuses, the U.S. Government Must Close the Military Detention Camp at Guantanamo Bay January 10, 2024 – Guantanamo Bay (Mohamed Abed/AFP via Getty Images)
According to the new law, a “person who uses social media to publish, distribute or share information, prohibited under the laws of Uganda or using disguised or false identity, commits an
A Human Rights Watch report in July found child athletes in Japan—at both the grassroots and elite levels—suffer physical, sexual, and verbal abuse when training in sport. Following the report
Armed Conflict. A spike in hostilities, despite the ceasefire, led to civilian casualties. According to United Nations human rights monitoring mission reports, in the first six months of 2021, 56
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