Tag: freedom of peaceful assembly and of association

A cryptocurrency trading firm, Genesis Global Trading, Inc., has shuttered its operations and agreed to pay an $8 million penalty while surrendering its licenses...

Kenya’s former Assistant Minister for Internal Security, Stephen Kipkiyeny Tarus, appeared in court in Kampala on January 10, 2024, facing charges related to falsifying...

The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) Superintendent, Adrienne A. Harris, announced that Genesis Global Trading, Inc. will pay an $8 million...

Global law firm Clyde & Co received a £500,000 ($635,613) fine on Thursday for numerous violations of money laundering regulations involving a longstanding client,...

(Bangkok) – Increasing repression by governments in Asia is negatively affecting human rights locally and internationally, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its...

(Jerusalem) – Civilians were targeted, attacked, abused, and killed over the past year at a scale unprecedented in the recent history of Israel and...

(Brussels, January 11, 2023) – The European Union and its member states renewed their commitments to uphold and protect rights in 2023, but they...

(Istanbul, January 11, 2024) – Politically motivated court decisions and signs of power struggles in the justice system following the re-election of President Recep...

(London, January 11, 2024) – The United Kingdom government’s policies and practices both severely eroded domestic human rights protections and undermined its efforts to...

(Berlin, January 11, 2024) – Western governments are intensifying their relations with Central Asian countries against the backdrop of Russia’s war on Ukraine, offering...

Aleksandra (Sasha) Skochilenko, a 33-year-old artist and musician facing charges of spreading false information about the army after replacing supermarket price tags with slogans...

(Vilnius, January 11, 2024) – Belarusian authorities carried out a widespread and systematic crackdown on dissent and on the spread of information about rights...

(Beirut) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) hosted the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in 2023 and used it to burnish its image...

(Washington, DC, January 11, 2024) – The United States government adopted important rights-respecting policies in 2023 but these policies did not reverse the overall...