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Human Rights Watch (HRW) called out Myanmar’s military junta on Monday for years of unlawful attacks on the healthcare system that have left 2 million people in need of assistance following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake last month. According to HRW, the junta has arrested over 872 health workers, attacked 263 medical facilities, and killed 74 [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that Jordanian authorities forcibly evicted and demolished residences in an informal Palestinian refugee camp in Amman without following proper procedures, as part of an urban development project. The project’s stated goals include improving living conditions, managing urban growth, and recovering the costs of upgrading and expanding infrastructure facilities through [...]

Standing Rapporteur on Human Rights for the Council of Europe, Gudrun Mosler-Törnström, on Friday denounced the recent demolition of Roma houses in the Zaharna Fabrika area of Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, in spite of an interim order from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that ordered Bulgaria to stop the forced evictions. According to NGO [...]

Amnesty International condemned Thursday the Dominican Republic’s new health protocol that requires migrants to provide documentation and pay fees to access public health services. The group argued that the new protocol is discriminatory and may violate international human rights standards. On April 6, the government announced a new health protocol consisting of 15 migration measures. [...]

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) raised  serious concerns Thursday about prison conditions and psychiatric care practices across Europe. The 34th General Report highlights issues pertaining to prison overcrowding, the continued influence of informal prisoner hierarchies, and the excessive use of pharmacological treatments [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on the sale, sexual exploitation, and sexual abuse of children Fatima Singhateh welcomed on Thursday efforts from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to combat child sale and exploitation. She stated that the country demonstrated a firm commitment to protecting children and providing them with the necessary support. Singhateh noted that the UAE [...]

Haiti is facing a humanitarian catastrophe as gang violence intensifies, displacing over 60,000 people in just weeks and pushing the country toward collapse, a United Nations official warned Monday. UN Special Representative María Isabel Salvador told the Security Council that Haiti is “approaching a point of no return.” February and March alone saw over 1,000 [...]

The Vietnamese government has significantly escalated its suppression of dissent, increasingly punishing individuals, including ordinary citizens, for peacefully expressing concerns about state policies and public officials, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released today. Titled “We’ll All Be Arrested Soon’: Abusive Prosecutions under Vietnam’s ‘Infringing of State Interests’ Law,” the report highlights the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Thursday that the escalating violence in Haiti is putting civilians at “grave risk,” urging the international community to protect human rights in the country. HRW said Haiti’s transitional government is unable to contain the spread of violence throughout the country while criminal groups maintain a hold on the capital of [...]

On March 25, Trinidad and Tobago’s Court of Appeal overturned a High Court ruling that the country’s colonial-era “Buggery and Serious Indecency laws” are unconstitutional. The decision brought worldwide scrutiny and criticisms about backsliding human rights and what many rights groups deem the “re-criminalization of homosexuality.” The Court of Appeal’s reasoning in the decision is [...]