Thousands of children in Afghanistan are currently working in conditions hazardous to their health, according to a report released Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . According to the report, many of these children work in jobs that could lead to illness, injury, or even death as a result of failure to enforce safety and [...]
According to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, 200,000 civilians stuck in three Syrian towns are in grave danger as attacking forces draw near. Opposition-controlled areas of Aleppo, following recent airstrikes over the past few months, have lost around 10,000 to 30,000 civilians, who have fled, leaving at least 150,000 civilians [...]
The Supreme Court of El Salvador on Wednesday struck down the amnesty law of 1993 , opening the way for prosecution of those associated with various war crimes and crimes against humanity during the country’s civil war. In a 4-1 decision the court held the law unconstitutional and stated the government was under obligation to [...]
Following Thursday’s attack in Nice, French President François Hollande has chosen to extend for three months the state of emergency, which had been set to expire on July 26. Stating that “t is the whole of France which is under threat from Islamic terrorism,” Hollande stepped back from his previous statements that it would be [...]
The Arizona affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging an Arizona law they claim will “prevent low-income women from obtaining healthcare from their provider of choice.” The groups are challenging HB 2599 , which would require medical providers to “segregate taxpayer dollars from abortions, including [...]
China is set to prosecute prominent human rights lawyer Zhou Shifeng on charges of subverting state power, furthering its recent crackdown on political dissidents. Zhou, who has been secretly detained for months, is the director of the Beijing Fengrui law firm, which has represented several high-profile clients, including political dissident Ilham Tohti. Zhou and other [...]
The UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report Thursday claiming that an estimated 9,300 people in Ukraine. including 2,000civilians, have been killed since the beginning of the separatist conflict in 2014. The report stated that there has been very little accountability for the deaths, and called for an end to [...]
In a report released Thursday, Amnesty International (AI) documented numerous human rights violations committed by Cameroon authorities in the country’s crackdown on Boko Haram . In a military campaign that AI West and Central Africa Regional Director calls the right end accomplished through “the wrong means,” Cameroon citizens have reportedly been subjected to arbitrary arrest, [...]
The Gloucester County School Board in Virginia filed an emergency application Wednesday asking the US Supreme Court to block a ruling in favor of a Virginia transgender student. The application, filed to Chief Justice Roberts , asks the court to halt the application of both an order by the US District Court for the Eastern [...]
Local groups and the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Baton Rouge Police Department for violating the First Amendment rights of protestors who were peacefully protesting the police killing of Alton Sterling . The suit claims that the police used excessive force, physical and verbal abuse, and wrongful arrests [...]
