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Iran: Free Students Long in Solitary
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Climate Change an Emerging Threat to Pregnancy Health
Click to expand Image© RuslanDashinsky/Getty Images The Covid-19 pandemic promises to make it even harder for many people to endure the heat of the coming summer season. In other years, people...
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Saudi Arabia: Release Yemeni Blogger
Click to expand ImageIllustration of string sealing person’s lips. © 2020 Malte Mueller / Getty Images(Beirut) – Saudi authorities should immediately release a Yemeni blogger and human rights activist,...
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UK Failing Domestic Abuse Victims in Pandemic
Click to expand Image© 2020 Alberto Pezzali via AP(London) – The government of the United Kingdom is stalling on establishing a robust legal framework to address violence against women and girls even...
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Mental Health Support Necessary During Covid-19 Pandemic
Click to expand ImageA man walks past a street art mural by the artist ADW in County Laois, Ireland, May 30, 2020. Entitled "Is it Still raining? I hadn't noticed", the work deals with the issue of...
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Africa: Covid-19 Exposes Healthcare Shortfalls
Click to expand ImageHealthcare workers treating Covid-19 patients in Tanzania wear personal protective equipment used to protect against the transmission of the disease. The spread of Covid-19 has...
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Lebanon: Huge Cost of Inaction in Trash Crisis
Click to expand ImageWorkers clean a shore from garbage days after an extended storm battered the Mediterranean country, at the Zouq Mosbeh costal town, north of Beirut, Lebanon, January 23, 2018. ©...
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Systemic Inequities Increase Covid-19 Risk for Indigenous People in Canada
Click to expand ImageRoxanne Moonias, mother to an infant with a chronic illness, demonstrates one of the steps she takes to ensure her baby is not exposed to contaminants in the water. Roxanne lives...
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EU: Strengthen Rules on Surveillance Tech Exports
Click to expand ImageEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a presentation on Europe's Digital Future at EU headquarters in Brussels, February 19, 2020. © 2020 AP...
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South Sudan: Soldiers Kill Civilians in Land Dispute
Click to expand ImageCivilians walk past burning tires during a protest in Shirkat, Juba, South Sudan on June 3, 2020. © Private 2020(Nairobi) – South Sudanese security forces killed at least five...
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UN: Strengthen Humanitarian Aid for People with Disabilities
Click to expand ImageLagkadika camp, Thessaloniki, home to 234 asylum seekers and other migrants, as of January 5, 2017. The rocky terrain in many camps makes it difficult for people who use...
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US: Reject #8CantWait Policing Program
Click to expand ImageDemonstrators gather outside City Hall to protest the police shooting of Stephon Clark, in Sacramento, California, U.S., March 30, 2018. © 2018 Reuters(Washington, DC) –...
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Hong Kong: Rights Under Attack on Anniversary
Click to expand ImageProtesters in Hong Kong, July 5, 2019. © 2019 Chris McGrath/Getty Images(New York) – Hong Kong’s and China’s governments should reverse measures threatening the fundamental...
View ArticleProtect Human Rights Defenders in Liberia
(Nairobi) – Recent credible threats against human rights defenders who, for many years, have been fighting for justice alongside victims of Liberia's civil wars are a source of great concern, nine...
View ArticleColombia: Uribe’s House Arrest Tests Rule of Law
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View ArticleDeath Penalty Danger in the Philippines
Click to expand Image Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during a late night live broadcast in Malacanang, Manila, Philippines, April 3, 2020. © 2020 Toto Lozano/Malacanang Presidential...
View ArticleRussia: Reject Anti-LGBT ‘Traditional Values’ Bill
Click to expand Image The Russian flag flies on a courthouse building in St. Petersburg, Russia, March 15 2020. © 2020 Alexander Koriakov/Kommersant/Sipa via AP Images (Moscow) – A draft bill before...
View ArticleLebanon: Set Impartial, Expert Probe of Beirut Blast
Click to expand Image Aftermath of the explosions at Beirut's seaport, August 5, 2020. © 2020 AP Images (Beirut) – Lebanese authorities should invite international experts to conduct an independent...
View ArticleIndonesia: Reinstate Students Expelled Over Papua Protest
Click to expand Image Four students at Khairun University, Ternate, filed a lawsuit against their rector over their dismissal. They attended a hearing with lawyers and supporters at the Ambon court,...
View ArticlePakistan: End Anti-Corruption Agency’s Abuses
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