Human Rights Storyboard
Share the Human Rights Storyboard with FriendsHuman rights concerns in Qatar cause some soccer fans in Chicago and beyond to turn away from World ...
Chicago Tribune - 21 Nov 2022 01:56
The first World Cup match took place Sunday, with Qatar losing to Ecuador. There was plenty of pageantry for the opener,...
Iran committed human rights violations in shooting down Ukrainian plane, UN says
NY Daily News - 25 Feb 2021 04:23
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down shortly after takeoff from Tehran on Jan. 8, 2020.
Otto Warmbier's Mom Says She'll Keep Speaking Out About North Korea's Human Rights Abuses
Time - 4 May 2018 04:06
Otto Warmbier died soon after being sent home from North Korea in a coma
China hosts global forum featuring own take on human rights
Miami Herald - 7 Dec 2017 05:09
China is hosting a global human rights forum as part of energetic new drive to showcase what it considers the strengths ...
Philippines: Duterte Threatens Human Rights Community
Human Rights Watch - 18 Aug 2017 02:56
Expand Activists hold placards as they protest against what they say are drug-related extrajudicial killings, during the...
Turkish court jails 6 human rights activists pending trial
Miami Herald - 18 Jul 2017 06:53
A court in Istanbul ordered six human rights activists -- including Amnesty International's Turkey director -- formally ...
Buddhists protest UN human rights envoy in western Myanmar
Miami Herald - 12 Jul 2017 16:10
Buddhist demonstrators have protested the arrival of the U.N. human rights envoy to Myanmar for an information-gathering...
Theresa May Will Change U.K. Human Rights Laws if They 'Get in the Way' of Fighting Terrorism
Time - 7 Jun 2017 05:35
Recent terror attacks have brought security issues to the fore as election nears
Watch Live: Nikki Haley to Warn That U.S. Could Quit Human Rights Council
Time - 6 Jun 2017 15:13
The U.S. believes there's "anti-Israel bias"
Human rights concerns prove no obstacle in Trump-Saudi ties
Miami Herald - 21 May 2017 15:49
On the first day of his first overseas visit, President Donald Trump presided over a nearly $110 billion sale of militar...
Canada backs sanctions legislation targeting rights abusers
Miami Herald - 18 May 2017 05:40
Canada's government decided Wednesday to create legislation to expand the country's international sanctions law to targe...
Poland faces criticism at UN human rights forum
Miami Herald - 9 May 2017 15:56
The United States and other countries criticized Poland at the U.N.'s Human Rights Council on Tuesday for new laws that ...
China puts leading human rights lawyer on trial for 'inciting subversion'
The Guardian - 8 May 2017 07:09
Xie Yang has been accused of conspiring to overthrow China's political system and faces a possible five years in prison ...
Trump administration drops human rights conditions to sell fighter jets to Bahrain
The Guardian - 30 Mar 2017 07:33
US state department told Congress it would abandon Obama-era demands for Gulf state to step back from crackdown on dissi...
UK police confirm criminal investigation into Iraq human rights lawyer
The Guardian - 18 Mar 2017 15:35
National Crime Agency says it is pursuing a number of lines of inquiry into Phil Shiner, who was struck off last month A...
UN Chief Warns That Women's Rights Are Under Attack Worldwide
The Huffington Post - 14 Mar 2017 16:35
In a speech to the Commission on the Status of Women on Monday night, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ...
Olympics: Host City Contract Requires Human Rights
Human Rights Watch - 28 Feb 2017 07:04
(New York) - The move by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to incorporate human rights principles in its Host Ci...
Israel: Human Rights Watch Denied Work Permit
Human Rights Watch - 24 Feb 2017 07:00
(Jerusalem) - Israeli authorities denied Human Rights Watch's application for a work permit for its Israel and Palestine...
Amnesty International singles out SA police and politicians for human rights abuses
TimesLIVE - 22 Feb 2017 07:39
Amnesty International has slammed South African police and politicians for heavy-handed tactics in quelling protests.
Jewish Human Rights Group Calls For Special Probe Into Anti-Semitic Bomb Threats
The Huffington Post - 22 Feb 2017 03:56
A leading Jewish human rights organization called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to create a special task force to in...
Syria: Make Human Rights Priority of Geneva Talks
Human Rights Watch - 21 Feb 2017 07:00
(Geneva) - Participants in the February 23, 2017, UN-sponsored Syria peace talks in Geneva should prioritize five key hu...
Air pollution crisis 'plagues' UK, finds UN human rights expert
The Guardian - 31 Jan 2017 16:49
'Silent pandemic' of air pollution affects UK children and no indication current protection against toxic waste will be ...
Germany Says the Human Rights Situation in Libya is 'Catastrophic'
Time - 31 Jan 2017 04:29
An internal Foreign Ministry memo described migrants facing torture and execution at detention camps in Libya
UN urges Burundi to reverse ban on oldest human rights group
Miami Herald - 5 Jan 2017 00:01
The United Nations is calling on Burundi's government to reverse its decision to ban the African country's oldest human ...
Imogen Foulkes: Are we facing a 'post human rights world'?
BBC - 30 Dec 2016 04:54
With more states seemingly reluctant to honour human rights treaties, what does the future hold?
Why Christmas time in China means jail for human rights activists
The Guardian - 25 Dec 2016 04:40
Beijing accused of bringing campaigners to trial when foreign observers are least likely to be paying attention As peopl...
UN human rights chief urges murder inquiry into Duterte's killing claim
Eyewitness News - 21 Dec 2016 05:06
Duterte told a gathering of businessmen last week that as mayor of Davao City he "personally" killed criminals.
Cambodia signs pact to renew UN human rights presence
Miami Herald - 20 Dec 2016 15:49
Cambodia has agreed to let the U.N. human rights agency keep an office in the country for another two years. The agreeme...
2 Yazidi women accept EU's Sakharov Prize for human rights
Miami Herald - 13 Dec 2016 15:56
Two Yazidi women who escaped sexual enslavement by the Islamic State group accepted the European Union's Sakharov Prize ...
Burma Could Be Guilty of 'Crimes Against Humanity' as Rohingya Crackdown Intensifies
Time - 12 Dec 2016 05:40
"Things are not as they are being portrayed by the government"
Human Rights Day: Will Trump's administration side with the dictators?
The Huffington Post - 10 Dec 2016 15:24
It is Human Rights Day today, and with Donald Trump about to become our next president, we have to wonder whether the Tr...
Post-custody deaths raise concern of human rights body
BBC - 10 Dec 2016 07:05
A report says 400 people killed themselves after being held by police in England and Wales in the last seven years.
China torturing suspects in 'war on corruption' says Human Rights Watch
The Guardian - 6 Dec 2016 07:15
Opaque extralegal detention system used by officials to hold suspects indefinitely until they confess Regular beatings, ...
China detains editor of human rights website for subversion
Miami Herald - 25 Nov 2016 06:06
An announcement on a Chinese human rights monitoring website says the site's editor has been detained on suspicion of su...
Trump and China: fears that deal-making will consign human rights to political 'roadkill'
The Guardian - 15 Nov 2016 05:07
New US president could be preparing an extreme makeover of US-China ties that would ditch status quo and broker an audac...
Qatar World Cup 2022: Amnesty hits out at UK silence on human rights
The Guardian - 9 Nov 2016 16:23
Organisation criticises trade minister Greg Hands for failing to highlight abuse of migrant workers during trip to trade...
Ai Weiwei to west: tackle China on human rights whatever the cost
The Guardian - 3 Nov 2016 06:20
'It doesn't matter it will hurt me or not - do what you think is right': celebrated artist says Beijing has axed rule of...
US halts sale of 26,000 assault rifles to Philippines police amid human rights concerns
The Guardian - 1 Nov 2016 03:33
Ties already strained by President Rodrigo Duterte's insults and controversial drug war which has killed thousands of pe...
Iran criticizes Saudi re-election to UN human rights council
Miami Herald - 30 Oct 2016 13:53
Iran has criticized the re-election of Saudi Arabia to the U.N. Human Rights Council. A Sunday report by the official IR...
Russia voted off United Nations Human Rights Council
Fox News - 29 Oct 2016 06:15
The General Assembly voted Russia off the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday, a stunning rebuke to the country which is...
This AI Can Accurately Predict the Outcome of Human Rights Trials
Motherboard - 24 Oct 2016 02:00
But replacing human judges is "impossible" right now, researchers say.
Human rights law is not a scam
Al Jazeera English - 13 Oct 2016 06:57
In armed conflict, human rights law is the best protection, for civilians and soldiers alike.
U.N. human rights chief: Trump would be "dangerous" president
CBSNews - 12 Oct 2016 16:06
Agency head, a Jordanian prince, says GOP nominees remarks on torture among those he finds "deeply unsettling and distur...
Imprisoned Chinese minority scholar given human rights award
Fox News - 11 Oct 2016 06:31
A group of leading rights organizations has awarded its annual prize for human rights defenders to imprisoned Chinese Mu...
'What about our human rights?': Kurds feel force of Turkey's crackdown
The Guardian - 6 Oct 2016 07:00
Kurds believe their harsh treatment by the Turkish state, particularly since July's failed coup, is being ignored by the...
U.N. Fails To Agree On Independent Inquiry Of Human Rights Abuses In Yemen
The Huffington Post - 30 Sep 2016 16:33
GENEVA ― Good news for the Saudis and not-so-good news for the civilians of Yemen: The United Nations Human Rights Cou...
Experts urge broader probe of human rights abuses in Burundi
Miami Herald - 20 Sep 2016 15:39
A group of independent experts called Tuesday for the creation of an U.N. panel to deepen a probe of "gross human rights...
Human Rights Watch: Palestinians abuse media, activists
Miami Herald - 30 Aug 2016 05:32
Palestinian authorities are silencing dissent by cracking down on free speech and abusing local journalists and activist...
US Calls For Release Of 4 Chinese Human Rights Activists
IBTimes - 9 Aug 2016 05:51
The United States called on China on Monday to release four human rights lawyers and activists who were convicted of sub...
Rodrigo Duterte: 'I don't care about human rights'
Al Jazeera English - 7 Aug 2016 00:48
President publicly accuses Filipino government officials including judges and members of Congress of having drug links.
Privacy warriors drag GCHQ into Euro human rights court over blanket spying, hacking
The Register - 6 Aug 2016 11:03
Brit overseers not interested, so groups ask ECHR instead Having failed in its bid to block GCHQ's hacking activities at...
UN thinks internet access is a human right
Business Insider - 23 Jul 2016 05:57
Shutterstock Is the Internet so embedded in the lives of so many people, acting as the main way for information exchange...
Air Conditioning Is a Human Right
Time - 21 Jul 2016 15:07
Texas, like other states, does not air condition its prisons--and by doing so, it kills people
US envoy in Cambodia to discuss human rights, politics
Miami Herald - 18 Jul 2016 15:35
A Cambodian official says talks with a visiting U.S. envoy focused on Cambodia's political situation and human rights. �...
China to prosecute rights lawyer, 3 activists for subversion
Miami Herald - 15 Jul 2016 14:31
A human rights lawyer and three activists have been indicted on subversion charges, Chinese prosecutors said Friday, sig...
Boy, eight, who died of SCURVY was 'denied basic human rights' by his parents who refused to let him...
Daily Mail - 9 Jul 2016 12:58
Glynn and Julie Seabridge, of Pembrokeshire, Wales, 'may have denied basic human rights' to their son Dylan, eight, who ...
U.S. sanctions Kim Jong Un over human rights abuses
The Week - 7 Jul 2016 07:44
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been placed on the U.S. sanctions list for human rights abuses, the State Department...
Human rights group outlines Egyptian abuses during June
SABC - 5 Jul 2016 14:15
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information has condemned Egyptian human rights abuses committed in June, and in the...
Human Rights Campaign Takes on Gun Control After Orlando Shooting
Time - 17 Jun 2016 17:00
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy group, is veering from its normal set of priorities and ...
Human Rights Watch: Over 400 killed in Ethiopia protests
Eyewitness News - 17 Jun 2016 06:20
Ethiopia's government has rejected findings of a report, saying there's no evidence to back up the death toll.
Human Rights -- A Growing Risk For Companies Doing Business In Tough Places
Forbes - 10 Jun 2016 14:54
Yousuf Aftab is the Principal of Enodo Rights, a corporate human rights strategy firm based in New York. He advises lead...
Eritrea commits crimes against humanity, UN says
Al Jazeera English - 8 Jun 2016 15:21
UN investigation reports a litany of crimes committed in Eritrea since 1991, including enslavement, rape and murder.
U.S. steps up pressure on China over prison labor
CNN - 7 Jun 2016 04:03
The U.S. has stepped up efforts to battle forced labor in prisons overseas, and the move is spelling trouble for some Ch...
Report Accuses Mexico of Crimes Against Humanity in Drug War
The New York Times - 6 Jun 2016 06:00
A study by the Open Society Justice Initiative concluded that indiscriminate force -- killings, forced disappearances an...
China human rights campaigner Harry Wu dies
Miami Herald - 27 Apr 2016 05:42
Longtime Chinese human rights campaigner, author and founder of the Laogai Research Foundation, Harry Wu has died. He wa...
Anders Breivik's human rights violated in prison, Norway court rules
The Guardian - 20 Apr 2016 15:22
Court says mass killer's prison conditions breach article in European convention on human rights prohibiting degrading t...
Call For Breast Ironing To Be Criminal Offence
Sky News - 10 Apr 2016 02:35
The ritual involves young girls having their breasts beaten, burnt and massaged in order to stop them developing.
Human rights lawyer gets death threats after plea to Scottish Muslims
The Guardian - 3 Apr 2016 14:36
Aamer Anwar attacks 'climate of fear' after condemning extremism in wake of Asad Shah killing and recent terrorist attac...
Amnesty: Qatar human rights abuses a 'stain on world football'
Goal.com - 31 Mar 2016 01:01
The 2022 World Cup is being built on forced labour, according to the campaign group, with many workers paid half of what...
Somalia's Prime Minister Is Backing a Campaign to End Female Genital Mutilation
Time - 24 Mar 2016 04:58
More than 90% of Somalian girls reportedly undergo genital mutilation
Encryption an 'Enabler of Human Rights,' Amnesty Says
NBC News - 22 Mar 2016 03:04
Human rights group Amnesty International released a report on encryption just one day before Apple is due to go to court...
Human rights body to examine new Polish police law
Miami Herald - 14 Mar 2016 14:56
A human rights body that rebuked Poland last week over moves that hobble the Constitutional Tribunal plans to investigat...
Chinese Activists Call on Authorities to Release Detained Rights Lawyers
Time - 3 Mar 2016 06:28
The lawyers have been held in arbitrary detention since last July
Attack on human rights 'has accelerated'
CNN - 24 Feb 2016 05:30
"In Madaya, you see walking skeletons."
Human rights body concerned that racism still a problem in SA
TimesLIVE - 19 Feb 2016 15:28
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has formally acknowledged receipt of a petition on racism from the Afr...
Top UN human rights official arrives in Sri Lanka
Miami Herald - 6 Feb 2016 07:25
The top U.N. human rights official arrived Saturday in Sri Lanka on a four-day visit aimed at reviewing the measures tak...
The Photos Linked to Detainee Abuse Released By U.S. Military
Time - 6 Feb 2016 01:21
The Pentagon has released 198 photos related to prisoner abuse by U.S. military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, a dec...
ACLU on Detainee Photos: Americans Must Know What Was Done in Their Name
Time - 6 Feb 2016 01:16
Democracies confront their misdeeds, not conceal them