Quad Leaders: Spotlight Rights, Democracy in Asia

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image From top left, clockwise: US President Joe Biden. © 2022 AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta; Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. © 2021 Toru Hanai/Pool Photo via AP; Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. © 2022 Darrian Traynor/Pool Photo via AP; and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. © 2022 AP Photo/Ajit Solanki. (Tokyo) – Leaders of the United States, Japan, India, and Australia should reach agreements on new measures to address human rights crises and democratic backsliding in Asia, Human Rights Watch said today. The Quad, a security alliance of the leaders of…

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