Spotlight on Human Rights
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Records Show DC and Federal Law Enforcement Sharing Surveillance Info on Racial Justice Protests A public records lawsuit brought by the Brennan Center and Data for Black Lives revealed that the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) collaborated with federal law enforcement agencies to surveil protestors in 2020 and 2021. We obtained…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Nasrin Sotoudeh on prison, the hijab, and violence in Iran Iran’s Qarchak jail has been called many things: a torture chamber; the worst women’s prison in the world; unfit for humans. Nasrin Sotoudeh uses just one word to describe the nine months she spent there: “Hell.” Sotoudeh does not speak of the appalling conditions or stench…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Across the world, journalists are under threat for sharing the truth Conflict in Gaza, war in Ukraine, a battle over the global environment – the world is becoming an increasingly hostile place, particularly for frontline journalists. Last year saw 99 killings of reporters, up 44% on 2022 and the highest toll since 2015.…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share SCOTUS Will Decide if Homelessness is a Crime On April 22, the Supreme Court will hear the case of Johnson v. Grants Pass, the most significant court case about the rights of people experiencing homelessness in decades. At its core, Grants Pass will decide whether cities are allowed to punish people for things…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Exclusive: groups call for US inquiry into police killing of ‘Cop City’ protester Two organizations – Robert F Kennedy Human Rights and the Southern Center for Human Rights – together with the University of Dayton Human Rights Center have filed a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights calling for a US…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Authoritarians Threaten Journalists Around the Globe From Vladimir Putin in Russia to the theocrats in Iran, authoritarian leaders are increasingly shutting down independent media and locking up reporters, with hundreds of journalists now in jail around the globe. Learn more ‘Every Day Is Hard’: One Year Since Russia Jailed a U.S. Reporter…
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