Dispatches: Are Rights on the Agenda for India’s and South Africa’s Leaders?
By Dewa Mavhinga India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in South Africa today to meet with President Jacob Zuma to[…]
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US: Senate Misses Opportunity on Disability Convention
The United States missed an opportunity to display global leadership on disability rights on December 4, 2012, as the Senate[…]
Read moreGuinea: Stadium Massacre Victims Await Justice
Hundreds of victims of the 2009 massacre, rapes, and other abuses by security forces in Guinea have yet to see justice[…]
Read moreUS: Honor Public Workers’ Bargaining Rights
Proposals in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, and other states to strip public workers of collective bargaining rights violate international labor rights[…]
Read moreGuinea: One Year On, No Justice for Bloody Stadium Massacre
Making sure that those responsible for the massacre of more than 150 opposition supporters in a Conakry stadium are brought[…]
Read moreCroatia: Locked Up, Limited Lives
Thousands of people in Croatia with intellectual or mental disabilities are forced to live in institutions that strip them of[…]
Read moreWestern Sahara: Polisario Arrests Rare Dissenter
The Polisario Front, the Western Sahara independence movement, should release a dissident detained on September 21, 2010, if the real[…]
Read moreThailand: Lift Emergency Decree
Five months after violent clashes between anti-government groups and state security forces, the Thai government still uses emergency powers to[…]
Read moreVietnam: Widespread Police Brutality, Deaths in Custody
The Vietnamese government should promptly open thorough and transparent investigations into a series of deaths caused by the use of[…]
Read moreUS: European Corporate Hypocrisy
Many European companies that publicly embrace workers’ rights under global labor standards nevertheless undermine workers’ rights in their US operations,[…]
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