2025 – Page 2 – Journalists for Human Rights

19 Jun

Indonesia’s Escalating Crackdown on Press Freedom

Syona Vashisth2025, Archive, Asia, Civil & Political Rights, Newspaper, Rights

It is April 2025, and there are rising tensions amongst journalists and the Indonesian government and military. Intimidation, violence, and suppression are engulfing Indonesia’s media community, raising grave concerns among […]

09 Jun

Words Without Action? Assessing International Legal Responses to Myanmar’s Human Rights Abuses

Mara Matilda Munteanu2025, Editors' Picks

Discriminatory policies and laws that have targeted Rohingya Muslims living in Myanmar since the late 1970s, forcing thousands to flee their homes towards neighbouring Buddhist countries. Rohingya Muslims are an […]

27 May

Enemy of the State: American Sanctions on the ICC

John Bollinger2025, Archive, Civil & Political Rights, Newspaper, Rights, The Americas

In the opening to her seminal work “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” Political Scientist Hannah Arendt speaks of the need for a “new political principle,” one that, in the wake of […]

10 May

From Hope to Horror: The Trafficking Pipeline in Cyprus’s Nightlife

Emma Ristic2025, Archive, Europe, Newspaper, Social & Economic Rights

On March 6th of 2025, a chilling tragedy occurred in a Cypriot nightclub. Anastasia Melega, a 23-year-old mother who had immigrated from Moldova, was found dead in the bathroom of […]