Human Rights Watch

In a new episode of HRW's Rights & Wrongs podcast, host Ngofeen Mputubwele looks at Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, a 2023 law that punishes same-sex intimacy with life in prison or even death. 🔊 ⬇️ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3UmP1BQ Apple: https://apple.co/4bghhgA

Four years ago, thousands of Cubans took to the streets in nationwide demonstrations against the government. Protesters detained for participating in the peaceful protests have been subject to serious abuses in prison.

Amid increasing threats to democracy and rights around the globe, Human Rights Watch is featuring activists who are fighting for human rights. Laura Hernandez is the Executive Director of Freedom for Immigrants, where she fights tirelessly for immigrant rights in the US. Hear more from Laura ⤵️

In South Korea, laws and policies have been enacted to protect workers from age discrimination. But some actually do the opposite. And what should be the benefits of retirement often look more like a punishment.

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order ending birthright citizenship. The judge said his decision to block the policy, which would have made some children “effectively stateless,” was “not a close call.”

"Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the fight of the century – the battle of our lives – here in the sold-out EU arena in Brussels." In his Daily Brief, Andrew Stroehlein looks at an epic fight for the future in Brussels:

In South Korea, the system is rigged against older people in three essential ways. Learn more in Andrew Stroehlein's Daily Brief:

Amid increasing threats to democracy and rights around the globe, Human Rights Watch is featuring activists who are working to defend human rights. We spoke with Aziz Muhamat, an activist from Sudan who was detained in Australia's offshore detention centre in Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.

At least 31 people were killed and dozens injured during anti-government protests in Kenya. Kenya’s National Commission on Human Rights accused the police of using excessive force and abducting at least two protestors.

In South Korea, you can get penalized simply for getting older. In a new report, HRW documents how South Korea’s laws and policies to protect older workers from age discrimination actually do the exact opposite. The government should abolish the mandatory retirement age of 60 or older and the “peak wage” system and review re-employment and social security programs.