Human Rights Post

Thai authorities should immediately and impartially investigate the attack on a Cambodian opposition activist who had sought refuge in Thailand, Human Rights Watch said today. Three Khmer-speaking men beat Phorn Phanna at around noon on August 22, 2023, in Rayong province, causing injuries to his face and chest. Phanna, 40, a member of Cambodia’s opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, fled ...

The social audits and certifications that brands and retailers use are totally inadequate to monitor and respond to threats to workers trying to organize independent unions, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing an analysis of standard social audit reports of garment factories in Bangladesh. Most audit reports either barely addressed the issue of freedom of association, or in some cases, ...

Dramatic scenes of villagers and environmental activists protesting the felling of thousands of trees in order to expand a coal mine have received widespread media coverage in Turkey over the past two weeks. Police used teargas and water cannon against the protesters and numerous were arrested as they attempted to stop the tree felling in Akbelen forest in Turkey’s western ...

Latin American countries meeting at the Amazon Summit in Brazil on August 8 and 9, 2023, should commit to ratify and carry out the Escazْ Agreement, Human Rights Watch said today as it released a video explaining the importance of this treaty. The regional agreement would help shore up protection of the Amazon rainforest and other vital ecosystems across the ...

A study released on September 13, 2023, in Kenya indicates that pesticides that are banned for use in the European Union due to their risks to health and the environment continue to be sold by European and other international companies in Kenya, Human Rights Watch said today. Kenyan authorities should ban all imports of highly hazardous pesticides and their active ...

September 4, the United Nations Environment Programme published the zero draft of the new global plastics treaty. The text, based on previous negotiations, lays the foundation for a legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution and could help confront some of the harmful impacts of plastics on the environment and protection of human rights. The draft proposes options to address ...

On Wednesday, The United Nations held a Climate Ambition Summit in New York City alongside the annual meeting of the General Assembly. The summit broke ground for several reasons, particularly its push for governments to “stamp out fossil fuels.” UN Secretary General Antَnio Guterres has become increasingly steadfast in his commitment to taking on the industry at the forefront of ...

Today, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child launches new guidance for governments on protecting children’s rights in the face of climate change and other environmental crises. From toxic pollution in Zambia and harmful plastics recycling in Turkey, to rising sea levels affecting housing in Panama and higher temperatures diminishing food supplies in Canada, environmental crises pose immense risks to children worldwide. Children ...

Brazil should urgently address the chronic problem of police abuse and impunity by ensuring that prosecutors lead investigations and that those investigations comply with international standards, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the attorney general, Augusto Aras. Police killed more than 6,400 people in 2022, according to the nonprofit Brazilian Forum of Public Security, which compiles the ...

Violence against Indigenous people in Brazil has marred the Amazon Summit, a high-level meeting of presidents of countries in the Amazon region aimed at improving protection of the Amazon rainforest. The violence is a stark reminder that there is no future for the Amazon without protecting the people living in, and dependent on, the rainforest. On August 7, I visited ...

On September 21, Brazil’s Supreme Court upheld Indigenous peoples’ rights to their traditional lands by ruling against the so-called cutoff date, a legal argument that Indigenous peoples should not obtain title of their ancestral territories if they were not physically present on them on October 5, 1988, the day Brazil’s current Constitution was adopted. Following the decision, Indigenous people across ...

The people of Ecuador voted on Sunday to halt all current and future oil drilling in the heart of Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest. This comes after decades of organizing led by a coalition of Indigenous peoples, youth, and activists from across the country. Voters also chose to ban all mining in the Choco Andino forest, near the ...

جاوید الرحمن خان اسلامیہ یونیورسٹی بہاولپور میں منظر عام پر آنے والے منشیات و سیکس اسکینڈل نے نہ صرف ہر پاکستانی کی آنکھیں شرم سے جھکا دی ہیں، بلکہ والدین کا سکھ چین ختم اور راتوں کی نیندیں حرام کر دی ہیں۔ والدین بجا طور پر یہ سوچنے پر مجبور ہو گئے ہیں کہ وہ اپنی بچیوں کو تعلیم حاصل ...

ارباز خان بھارت کی جانب سے مقبوضہ کشمیر کی خصوصی حیثیت ختم کرنے کے اقدام کو 4 برس مکمل ہونے پر ملک بھر میں یوم استحصال کشمیر منایا گیا۔ اس موقع پر صدر مملکت ڈاکٹر عارف علوی، وزیر اعظم شہباز شریف، وزیر خارجہ بلاول بھٹو، چیئرمین جوائنٹ چیفس آف اسٹاف کمیٹی اور مسلح افواج کے سربراہان نے کشمیریوں سے اظہارِ ...

ریاست میں ڈھائی ماہ سے جاری نسلی فسادات کے دوران ایک ہجوم کے سامنے دو خواتین کے کپڑے اتارنے اور ان پر جنسی تشدد کی ایک ویڈیو حال ہی میں منظر عام پر آئی جس نے انڈیا کے سیاسی و سماجی حلقوں کو ہلا کر رکھ دیا ہے۔ منی پور کی پولیس نے ویڈیو کی تصدیق کرتے ہوئے بتایا تھا ...