MARCH 9, 2017
(São Paulo) – Brazilian authorities should reform laws that have been used to impose disproportionate punishments on military police officers who speak out publicly to advocate reform or voice complaints, Human Rights Watch said today.
Politics
8 March 2017
Urgent attention, creativity and cooperation are needed to address online gender-based abuse, but authorities should be careful to avoid curtailing freedom of expression in doing so, two United Nations human rights experts said today.
Photo:Wide view of the Security Council.
Photo:A UN peacekeeper outside the big mosque of Timbuktu, Mali.
Photo:Pakistani migrants in Kos, Greece, showing a map he received with information about the closure of Hungary border and suggesting to go through Croatia instead.
Photo:Women and girls in the garment industry are often subject to forced overtime and low wages, and on domestic workers because of the unprotected nature of their work.
Photo:Elderly people have been particularly hard hit by the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
Photo:People participate in a protest against the Trump administrations's travel ban outside Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, on January 28, 2017.
Photo:IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano (left) arrives for the 1453rd Board of Governors Meeting. IAEA, Vienna, Austria, 6 March 2017.
Photo:Security Council representatives speak to journalists during the Council's first ever visit to Niger.