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August 15, 2024 Dispatches

Disinformation About US Elections Targets Communities of Color

Safeguarding Accurate Information Needed to Ensure Free and Fair Elections

The Phoenix, Arizona studio of La Campesina, a Spanish-language radio network that seeks to provide Latinx voters the facts about voting and how elections are run, March 20, 2024.
August 14, 2024 Statement

Need for an Urgent Rethink of International Response to the Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan

Joint Statement by the Alliance for Human Rights in Afghanistan

A 15-year-old girl reads out of a notebook because she is barred from attending school in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 2024.
August 14, 2024 Commentary

Community Consultations Must Also Include Women — Not Just Men

A Maasai woman standing near Endulen, Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), Arusha region, Tanzania, on June 22, 2023.
August 14, 2024 Statement

Malawi: Submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

76th Session

August 14, 2024 Dispatches

Renewed Hope for Justice for Burundi Massacre

20 Years After Attack on Gatumba Refugee Camp, Victims File Criminal Cases

Mourners gather during a mass funeral service for the more than 150 Congolese who were massacred the previous weekend, at Gatumba, a UN-run refugee camp in Burundi, August 16, 2004.
August 14, 2024 News Release

US: Los Angeles Criminalizes Unhoused People

Arrests, Tickets, Property Destruction Brutalize People Who Need Housing

Police remove an unhoused woman from her tent
August 14, 2024 Report

India: Hate Speech Fueled Modi’s Election Campaign

Prime Minister, Ruling Party Targeted Muslims, Other At-Risk Groups

 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at a public rally ahead of polling in the national election in Hyderabad, India, May 10, 2024.
August 13, 2024 News Release

Vietnam: Free Democracy Activist Nguyen Chi Tuyen

Citizen Journalist Charged for Speaking Out Against Injustice

Nguyen Chi Tuyen carries a No-U banner (No to China’s Nine Dash Line) at Ky Quan San Peak, Vietnam.
August 13, 2024 Dispatches

Tanzanian Arrests Bad Omen for Upcoming Elections

Respect Rights of Opposition; Release Those Wrongfully Detained

 Supporters of Tanzania's main opposition party, Chadema, protest with the party's deputy chairman, Tundu Lissu, front center, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, January 24, 2024.
August 13, 2024 Dispatches

Cameroonian Social Media Activist Feared Forcibly Disappeared

Confirm Steve Akam’s Detention and Location, Release Him

Screenshot of a video published on social media on July 21, 2024 and showing Steve Akam, also known as Ramon Cotta, at the border between Gabon and Cameroon.
August 13, 2024 News Release

Mexico: Inadequate Abortion Access in State of Mexico Violates Human Rights

State Government Should Fully Decriminalize Abortion

Women take part in a march for the decriminalization of abortion, “Strike for International Day for the Decriminalization of Abortion,” Toluca, Mexico. September 28, 2021.
August 13, 2024 News Release

Iraq: Exhume Mass Grave Sites to Ensure Justice

End of UN Mandate Raises Concerns About Recovery, Identification of Victims

Members of expert teams take part in the opening of a mass grave and the exhumation of the remains of victims who were killed and buried by the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) terror group back in 2014, in Al-Humaydat, Iraq, June 13, 2021.
August 12, 2024 Report

Myanmar: Armies Target Ethnic Rohingya, Rakhine

Killings of Civilians, Mass Arson, Unlawful Recruitment in Rakhine State

A family who fled from Buthidaung, Myanmar, at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, June 25, 2024.
August 12, 2024 Dispatches

Tunisia Hollows Out its Media Landscape Ahead of Elections

Clampdown Stifles Diverse Voices, Political Debate

Protesters with red tape over their mouths hold placards
August 11, 2024 News Release

Afghanistan: Taliban Tighten Grip 3 Years into Rule

Severe Abuses against Women, Critics; Economic Crisis Threatens Millions

Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 28, 2023.

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