Human Rights

Azerbaijan’s human-rights record is under fire as it prepares to host UN climate talks

5:20pm October 08, 2024

Azerbaijan has carried out an “escalating crackdown” on government critics and activists over the past two years, according to Human Rights Watch and Freedom Now.

China frees American pastor after 18 years in detention

12:10pm September 16, 2024

The State Department said that 68-year-old David Lin is coming home after being arrested in China on vague contract charges that he and his family deny. He had been jailed there for 18 years.

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A Russian court has ordered the arrest of Alexei Navalny's widow, who lives abroad

12:17pm July 10, 2024

by Charles Maynes

A Moscow court ordered the arrest of the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a hearing that was conducted in absentia as part of a sweeping Kremlin crackdown on the opposition.

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Heavy security in China and Hong Kong on 35th anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown

5:38am June 04, 2024

by Associated Press

China has long quashed any memory of the killings, when the government ordered in the army to end the months-long protests and uphold Communist rule. The death toll remains unknown to this day.

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What does the death of a jailed Jesuit priest say about India's democracy under Modi?

11:43am June 02, 2024

by Lauren Frayer

Indian police accused Stan Swamy of terrorism. His supporters say he was framed and evidence planted on his computer. Some call it Narendra Modi's Watergate. Six years on, no one has resigned.

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Thai activists hold a portrait of Netiporn Sanesangkhom, a member of the activist group Thaluwang outside of Criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, on Tuesday.

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A monarchy reform activist in Thailand dies in detention after a hunger strike

3:00am May 15, 2024

by The Associated Press

Netiporn Sanesangkhom, 28, was a member of the activist group Thaluwang, known demanding reform of the monarchy and abolition of the law that makes it illegal to defame members of the royal family.

Plaintiffs, lawyers and activists gather outside South Korea's constitutional court in Seoul ahead of a public hearing for a climate lawsuit on Tuesday, April 23, 2024.

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South Koreans sue government over climate change, saying policy violates human rights

10:39am April 24, 2024

by Anthony Kuhn

Plaintiffs including 17-month-old boy nicknamed Woodpecker bring landmark climate litigation in South Korea, the first in Asia to get a public hearing.

President Biden attends a welcoming ceremony hosted by Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the Presidential Palace of Vietnam in Hanoi on Sept. 10, 2023.

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As Vietnam grows ties with U.S., a secret directive seeks to gird the Communist Party

5:27pm March 01, 2024

by John Ruwitch

A leaked document offers a window into the motivations and concerns of party leaders as they seek to deepen ties with the U.S.

A 16-year-old boy who was captured and claimed to have been beaten by members of El Salvador's naval force in November 2022 in Usulután, a small town in eastern El Salvador.

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Portraits from El Salvador's nearly 2-year, sprawling crackdown on gang suspects

3:08pm February 06, 2024

by Carlos Barrera

Salvadoran photographer Carlos Barrera takes a look at the nearly two years of human rights violations allegedly committed by the government of El Salvador during the country's state of emergency.

Yuly Velásquez (center in tan vest) president of a local fishers association and a clean-water advocate, meets with its members on a tributary of the Magdalena River. She has been attacked three times in the past two years for her environmental work.

Colombia is the most dangerous country in the world for environmental defenders

1:19pm December 06, 2023

by John Otis

Of the 177 environmental activists killed around the world last year, 60 were murdered in Colombia, says the advocacy group Global Witness. In most cases, no one is tried or convicted.

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