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August 30, 2024 News Release

Azerbaijan: Escalating Crackdown on Critics

Peace Activists Among the Latest Targets

Left - Bahruz Samadov. © Bahruz Samadov/Facebook and Right - Igbal Abilov. © Private
August 28, 2024 Statement

Update on Human Rights in the Russian Federation and the Continuing Need for a Special Rapporteur on Russia

August 27, 2024 News Release

Ukraine Moves to Join ICC

But Limits in Ratification Law Compromise Hopes for Justice

 Ukrainian Parliament during a session in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 21, 2024.
August 26, 2024 Statement

Joint Statement Requesting EU Action on Israel’s Unprecedented Killing of Journalists and Other Violations of Media Freedom in Gaza

Yair Lapid, then Israeli foreign minister and current prime minister, speaks with the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borell during a July 2021 meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
August 23, 2024 Commentary

Britain Needs to End its Two-Tier Approach to Protection of Civilians in Gaza and Ukraine

To end civilian suffering in Ukraine and Gaza, the UK must quit its double standards and apply international humanitarian law equally

August 23, 2024 Statement

Children's Rights to Access to Justice and Effective Remedies

Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child

August 20, 2024 Report

Georgia: Violent Attacks on Government Critics

Investigations Falter, Accountability Needed

A demonstrator draped with the Georgian national and EU flags stands in front of police who are blocking the way to the parliament building, during a protest against the “foreign agent” law in Tbilisi, Georgia, May 14, 2024.
August 15, 2024 Dispatches

Türkiye: Kurdish Songs and Dances Are Not Terrorist Propaganda

End Abusive Prosecutions and Detentions

A group in a dance formation
August 15, 2024 Dispatches

Deaths of People with Disabilities Surge in Spain, As Does the Heat

Better Data Needed to Improve Protections

Fernando Uceta, who has COPD, uses a portable oxygen concentrator to breathe as he sits on the balcony of his home during the summer heatwave, in Barcelona's Raval neighbourhood, Spain, June 27, 2023.
August 8, 2024 News Release

Türkiye: Restore Access to Instagram

Social Media Censorship Violates Millions of People’s Rights

A person holds a phone showing the Instagram logo while a computer screen displays the message “This site can not be reached'”
August 8, 2024 Dispatches

We Can’t Ignore the Racism and Islamophobia Fueling Riots in the UK

UK Government Needs to Tackle Threat Posed by the Far Right

 Far-right activists protest in Sunderland, England, August 2, 2024.
August 8, 2024 Dispatches

Kazakhstan Comic Finds Authorities Can’t Take a Joke

Crackdown on Freedom of Expression, Including Prosecutions of Comics, Should End

Kazakhstan’s national flag flies in the village of Saumalkol, North Kazakhstan region, March 22, 2023.
August 7, 2024 News Release

Russia: Repressive Laws Used to Crush Civic Freedoms

Government Should Foster Environment Allowing Civil Society to Thrive

Illustration of a hand pinning labels onto people
August 1, 2024 Commentary

Lithuania Leaving Cluster Munition Ban Undermines Agreement, Threatens Crucial Norms

Lithuania’s representative signing the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Oslo, Norway on December 3, 2008.
August 1, 2024 News Release

Greece: EU Ignores Deteriorating Rule of Law

Misleading Report Plays Down Curbs in Media, Civic Space

A woman reads newspaper's headlines referring to the killing of a Greek journalist in Athens on April 10, 2021.

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