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(Johannesburg) – Zambia should provide accountability for its failure to clean up a contaminated mine site that is responsible for the ongoing lead poisoning of children, Human Rights Watch said today in supporting a request for African Union action to require the government and others involved to clean up the site.

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Click to expand Image The Xishiku Catholic Church, in Beijing, China, May 9, 2025. © 2025 Andy Wong/AP Photo A decade into President Xi Jinping’s “Sinicization” of religion campaign, Catholic communities across China face tightened ideological control, strict surveillance, and travel restrictions. The 2018 Holy See-China agreement on bishops h...

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(London, April 15, 2026) – The Singaporean government should immediately halt the execution of Omar bin Yacob Bamadhaj, scheduled for April 16, 2026, for trafficking cannabis, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Capital Punishment Justic...

Click to expand Image Uber Eats delivery drivers protested following the mass deletion of hundreds of accounts in Paris, France, on October, 1, 2022. © 2022 Sipa via AP Photo

Every day, food-delivery workers cross Paris and Bordeaux in all weather, working long hours for pay well below France’s minimum wage. For most, this work provides their on...

Click to expand Image The Hauts Plateaux taken from the village of Namesha in Fizi Territory, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, March 2026. © 2026 Emmet Livingstone

(Nairobi) – Congolese armed forces and armed groups in the South Kivu highlands are interfering with aid delivery and preventing civilians from fleeing fighting in eastern Dem...