DOWNLOAD PDF THE ISSUE Parties to the armed conflict in Syria committed war crimes and other grave violations of international humanitarian law and human rights abuses with impunity. Government and allied forces, including Russia, carried out indiscriminate attacks and direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects using aerial and artillery bombing, including with chemical and
DOWNLOAD PDF THE ISSUE Since the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA), under the command of General Haftar, attacked the Government of National Accord (GNA) capital of Tripoli in March 2019, there has been a consistent deterioration in the human rights and humanitarian situation in Libya. The worsening crisis and tremendous suffering of people in Libya
DOWNLOAD PDF THE ISSUE A wave of nationwide protests erupted October 17, 2019, against a ruling class accused of steering Lebanon towards its worst economic crisis since the 1975-1990 armed conflict. The Lawyers’ Committee to Defend Protesters in Lebanon estimates that security forces have arrested as many as 100 people across the country, including five
DOWNLOAD PDF THE ISSUE The international community has long recognized that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. By continuing with its discriminatory settlement policy, Israel is brazenly breaching multiple UN Security Council Resolutions. In 2019, Israel continued to expand illegal settlements and related infrastructure in the occupied West Bank, including in East Jerusalem. Israel’s
DOWNLOAD PDF THE ISSUE Civil society activists are a driving force of change and reforms in Ukraine. They are at the frontline of fighting corruption and defending human rights. Because of their success, anti-corruption campaigners, journalists, and LGBTI and women’s rights activists are increasingly being physically attacked and threatened. Many sustained injuries and were silenced
DOWNLOAD PDF THE ISSUE THE RIGHT TO EXPRESS FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION In Turkey, the crackdown on real or perceived dissent continues, despite the end of the two-year long state of emergency in July 2018. Thousands of people are held in lengthy and punitive pre-trial detention, often without any credible evidence of their having committed any
DOWNLOAD PDF THE ISSUE SUPPORT THE STRUGGLE OF THE JUDGES, PROSECUTORS AND LAWYERS FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE JUDICIARY Since late 2015, the government of Poland has implemented legal and policy changes that undermine the independence of the judiciary. This represents a problem for both the judiciary and for people in Poland who rely on
DOWNLOAD PDF THE ISSUE States have an obligation to respect the rights to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief, and to protect those rights against acts committed by non-state actors that would impair the enjoyment of the rights. In Pakistan, this right is under assault. The country’s draconian blasphemy laws violate human rights,
DOWNLOAD PDF THE ISSUE TREATMENT OF ETHNIC UIGHER AND KAZAKH ASYLUM-SEEKERS FROM XINJIANG UIGHER AUTONOMOUS REGION (UAR) The UN and states around the world have condemned the ongoing systematic oppression of ethnic minorities in China, including the mass arbitrary detention of Chinese Uighurs and other Muslim minorities, including Kazakhs in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
DOWNLOAD PDF THE ISSUE The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has embarked on a concerted campaign to destroy civil society and free media in Hungary. On June 13, 2017, the Hungarian Parliament adopted the ‘Law on the Transparency of Organizations Supported from Abroad,’ which aims to stigmatize and further hamper the work of independent