Human Rights Watch

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Civil society groups said the current bill contains articles that will violate the rights of women, religious minorities, LGBTQI+, as well as freedom of speech and association.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is driven largely by criminal networks that use violence and intimidation against those who try to stop them, and the government is failing to protect the rainforest’s defenders.

The current document calling for the punishment of religiously active retirees in Tibet is part of China’s new party internal disciplinary campaign.

Nikolai Kuprich was left with severe head injuries after being brutally beaten by an unknown assailant in Minsk. The filmmaker has been working on a documentary about the discrimination faced by LGBTQI+ people in Belarus.

Journalist Hajar Raissouni, 28, has been charged with having an abortion and sex outside marriage, and faces up to two years in prison if convicted.

The government has cut access to mobile phones aside from increasing military presence in the Rohingya camps.

Sentsov, winner of the Sakharov Prize, spent five years behind bars in Russia. Last year he went on hunger strike for 145 days, demanding the release of all Ukrainians held in Russia and in Crimea on politically motivated charges.