Malawi Amends Constitution to Remove Child Marriage Loophole
By Annerieke Smaak A 14-year-old girl holds her baby at her sister’s home in a village in Kanduku, in Malawi’s Mwanza district. She...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 23, 2017
Canada Commits 'Human Rights Violations' By Locking Up Children: Report
An average of at least 48 Canadian children are being held in immigration detention centres every year, harming their mental and physical...
The Huffington Post (Huffpost)
Feb 23, 2017
South African High Court Rejects ICC Withdrawal
South Africa’s North Gauteng High Court today ruled that the government’s attempt to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 22, 2017
A Step Toward Justice in the Central African Republic
Last month I visited Bakala, a town in the center of the Central African Republic where serious fighting between two rebel groups had...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 22, 2017
South Sudan Famine is A Collective Failure
By Jonathan Pedneault A boy watches sacks of food drop to the ground during a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) airdrop close to...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 20, 2017
Iraq: Looting, Destruction by Forces Fighting ISIS
Armed forces fighting Islamic State (also known as ISIS) to retake a town and four villages near Mosul looted, damaged, and destroyed...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 16, 2017
‘I Don’t Think Her Heart Will Ever Like This Baby’ Protecting Children of Rape, the Invisible Victim
Akinyi was only 11 years old when three men broke into her home in Kericho, Kenya, in December 2007, as post-election violence raged, and...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 15, 2017
Burma Loses a Key Voice for Tolerance
Supporters carry the coffin of U Ko Ni in Rangoon, Burma, on January 30, 2017. © 2017 Reuters The murder of U Ko Ni, a longtime rights...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 4, 2017
Fiji forces Iranian refugee back to Papua New Guinea
By Geoff Hill Fiji outraged rights groups on Friday by forcing an Iranian refugee back to Papua New Guinea where he had spent more than...
The Washington Times
Feb 3, 2017
Pushbacks, Abuse at Borders
Bulgarian border police stand near a barbed wire fence on the Bulgarian-Turkish border on July 17, 2014. © 2014 Reuters Bulgarian law...
Human Rights Watch
Jan 20, 2017
Asylum Seekers Forced Back to Serbia
Croatian police are forcing asylum seekers back to Serbia from inside Croatia, in some cases using violence, without giving them an...
Human Rights Watch
Jan 20, 2017
It’s Time to End Child Statelessness in Estonia
By Helen Griffiths Estonia's President Toomas Hendrik addresses the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York,...
Human Rights Watch
Jan 17, 2017
