By Dan O. Eboka and Dechen D. Piya
World
- Uighurs: ‘Credible case’ China carrying out genocide (BBC News)
- Amnesty launches first global emergency appeal to counter growing anti-human rights agenda worldwide(Amnesty International)
- New guidelines put youth at the forefront of humanitarian response (UN News)
- Major airlines join forces with UNICEF to support ‘monumental’ COVID-19 vaccine roll-out plan (UN News)
- Covid-19 triggers a wave of free speech abuse (Human Rights Watch)
- With their mother’s Australian citizenship cancelled over alleged ISIS-links, how will NZ deal with her children?(The Conversation)
Asia:
- Myanmar: Arrests Mount as Protests Expand (Human Rights Watch)
- Myanmar: Scrap Sweeping Cybersecurity Bill (Human Rights Watch)
- Duterte Should Leave Alone Philippines TV Network (Human Rights Watch)
- Japan’s Muji Stops Short of Ban on Cotton From Xinjiang, Where Forced Labor is Rife (Radio Free Asia)
- Labor Rights Groups Urge Cambodian Government to Assist Illegal Migrant Workers in Thailand (Radio Free Asia)
- China Bans BBC Broadcasts in Move Seen as Warning to Journalists Over Xinjiang (Radio Free Asia)
- Singapore activist jailed for train protest (France24)
- Bangladesh sends fourth batch of Rohingya refugees to new island (Wion News)
- Disha Ravi: The jailed Indian activist linked to Greta Thunberg (BBC News)
- Philippine General Should Answer for ‘Red-Tagging’ (Human Rights Watch)
- UN Finds Torture, Forced Labor Still Rampant in North Korean Prisons (Human Rights Watch)
- Nepal Plans to Limit Women’s Travel for Work, Again (Human Rights Watch)
- Thailand: Prominent Activists Held in Pre-Trial Detention (Human Rights Watch)
- Nepal, the Beacon of LGBTQ+ Rights in Asia? Not Quite. (The Diplomat)
- Pakistan: Supreme Court judgement bans executions of prisoners with mental disabilities (Amnesty International)
- Uzbekistan: Blogger Held on Dubious Extortion Charge (Human Rights Watch)
Middle East:
- Australia Should Stop Blocking International Justice in Israel and Palestine (Human Rights Watch)
- Saudi Arabia: Further Textbook Reforms Needed (Human Rights Watch)
- The Right That Vanished from Algeria’s Constitution (Human Rights Watch)
- Saudi Women’s Rights Defenders Released, But Not Free (Human Rights Watch)
- Saudi Arabia Drops Death Sentence Against Child Protestors (Human Rights Watch)
- UAE: Jordanian Convicted for Criticizing Jordan on Facebook (Human Rights Watch)
- Egypt: Activist Stripped of Citizenship (Human Rights Watch)
- Palestine: Lawyers rally against ‘intrusion on judiciary’ after controversial decrees (Middle East Eye)
- Bahrain: Dreams of reform crushed 10 years after uprising (Amnesty International)
- Justice Stalled in Egypt’s ‘Fairmont’ Rape Case (Human Rights Blog)
- Mass grave discovery highlights Iraq’s impunity gap for worst crimes (The New Arab)
- Syrian ‘Military Evaders’ Face Unlawful Seizure of Property, Assets (Human Rights Watch)
- UAE: Detention of UK National Appears Arbitrary (Human Rights Watch)
Europe:
- Russia Cracks Down on Planned Valentine’s Day Protest (Human Rights Watch)
- In Ukraine, taking three pro-Russia channels off the air raises complex issues (Human Rights Watch)
- Child of Lesbian Mothers Has Right to Bulgaria Citizenship (Human Rights Watch)
- Hungary Forces Klubradio Off Air (Human Rights Watch)
- Ensure safety of two Chechen men arbitrarily detained and forcibly transferred to Chechnya (Human Rights Watch)
- Russia: Social Media Pressured to Censor Posts (Human Rights Watch)
- Asylum seekers go on hunger strike over poor food that caused some ‘to end up in hospital’ (Sky News)
Africa:
- Joint letter to UN HRC (Human Rights Watch)
- AU: Tshisekedi Should Set Rights-Driven Agenda (Human Rights Watch)
- Nigeria Finally Unfreezes Protesters’ Bank Accounts (Human Rights Watch)
- Ethiopia: Unlawful Shelling of Tigray Urban Areas (Human Rights Watch)
- We had to run for our lives’: The pregnant women fleeing Tigray (UN News)
- Burundi: UN refugee agency appeals for over $220 million in ‘crucial’ support (UN News)
Americas:
- Independent UN rights expert calls for unilateral sanctions to be dropped against Venezuela (UN News)
- Colombia: Protection Gaps Endanger Rights Defenders (Human Rights Watch)
- Government tactics to silence criticism deepen human rights crisis in Nicaragua (Amnesty International)
- US States Take Aim at Protesters’ Rights (Human Rights Watch)
- Anti-Asian Violence in US Demands Response (Human Rights Watch)
- What Biden Needs to Do to Restore Rights at the Border (Human Rights Watch)
- News Amnesty International joins civil liberties groups to ask Biden to drop case against Julian Assange(Amnesty International)
