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Click to expand Image Deforestation due to plant palm oil plantations near Sandakan city, State of Sabah, North Borneo Island, Malaysia, August 5, 2019.  © 2019 Emy/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP Images...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/08/eu-dont-weaken-anti-deforestation-law

Click to expand Image A police officer aims at protesters in Maputo, Mozambique, November 7, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo/Carlos Uqueio On Thursday in the heart of Maputo, Mozambique’s capital, Ang...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/08/mozambique-police-brutally-repress-election-protesters

Click to expand Image Emir and President of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (L), Gianni Infantino (SUI) FIFA President, (M), Saudi Arabia s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud (R) in t...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/08/saudi-arabia-2034-world-cup-risks-widespread-labor-abuse

Click to expand Image Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth at the 77th United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters, in New York City, US, September 23, 2022. © 2022 Caitlin...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/07/mauritius-ends-social-media-ban-ahead-elections

Click to expand Image The COP29 stand at Baku Boulevard in Baku, Azerbaijan, July 28, 2024. © 2024 Aziz Karimov/Getty Images (Berlin) – Governments participating in the 29th annual United N...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/07/cop29-climate-action-crucial-protect-rights

Click to expand Image Benon Kabale, left, participates during an event on mental health awareness during the Lubowa Community and Toastmasters Mental Health Run/Walk on November 2, 2024, in Lubow...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/07/ugandan-court-hears-case-secluding-restraints

Click to expand Image An Israeli 155mm artillery projectile containing white phosphorus being airburst low over al-Bustan, a village in Lebanon near the border with Israel, October 15, 2023.  ©...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/07/incendiary-weapons-new-use-calls-immediate-action

Click to expand Image A protest against the arrest and removal from office of Ahmet Özer, elected mayor of Esenyurt from Türkiye's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). October 31...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/07/turkiye-government-removes-elected-opposition-mayors

Click to expand Image A woman speaks on a mobile phone ahead of the announcement of provisional results of an October 9 election, in Laulane township, Maputo, Mozambique, October 23, 2024. © 202...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/06/mozambique-post-election-internet-restrictions-hinder-rights

Click to expand Image Reproductive rights activists demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2024. © 2024 Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images A second presidential ...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/06/mixed-results-us-abortion-rights-ballot

Click to expand Image Detainees stand behind cell bars at the police immigration detention center in Bangkok, Thailand, January 21, 2019. © 2019 Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo Thai authorities are con...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/06/un-committee-should-press-thailand-not-deport-refugees-torture

Click to expand Image Secondary school girls in a classroom in a middle secondary school in Sédhiou, southern Senegal. Photo by Elin Martínez. © 2017 Human Rights Watch Millions of children ...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/06/bogota-global-meeting-should-commit-ending-sexual-violence-schools

Mali’s Transitional National Council passed a law on October 31 that makes homosexuality a criminal offense. The new legislation will intensify risks of stigma, discrimination, and violence aga...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/06/new-mali-law-disastrous-lgbt-people

Click to expand Image Republican President-elect Donald Trump after speaking at a campaign rally at Van Andel Arena, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 5, 2024. (C) 2024  © 2024 Carlos Osorio/...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/06/us-second-trump-term-threat-rights-us-world-0

Click to expand Image Protesters attend a demonstration against Kenya's proposed finance bill 2024/2025 in Nairobi, Kenya, June 25, 2024. © 2024 REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi (Nairobi) – Kenyan sec...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/06/kenya-security-forces-abducted-killed-protesters

Click to expand Image Iwao Hakamata waves to supporters while meeting with his sister Hideko, several weeks after his acquittal on retrial for the 1966 murder of a family of four, in Shizuoka, Ja...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/04/inquiry-needed-japans-flawed-criminal-justice-system

Click to expand Image President Felix Tshisekedi gives his annual State of the Nation address during a joint session of parliament in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, December 13, 2021. ©...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/04/dr-congo-president-suggests-changes-term-limits

Click to expand Image Legislators attend a parliamentary session at the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye in Ankara, June 2, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Ali Unal (Istanbul, November 2, 2024) - Tü...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/02/turkiye-spying-bill-threatens-rights-defenders-journalists

Click to expand Image Newspapers for sale outside a store in Lusaka, Zambia, on February 23, 2024. © 2024 Luke Dray/Bloomberg via Getty Images On October 16, police in Zambia’s capital, Lusa...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/01/zambia-should-stop-harassing-investigative-journalist

Click to expand Image Osman Kavala © 2017 Private (Istanbul, November 1, 2024) – Türkiye’s continued unlawful detention of the human rights defender Osman Kavala is a result of prosecutor...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/01/turkiye-osman-kavala-marks-7-years-behind-bars