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Zimbabwe’s President Shouldn’t Sign Repressive NGO Bill

Click to expand Image Zimbabwe's president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, at the World Economic Forum in Cape Town, South Africa, on September 4, 2019. © 2019 Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images...

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Hardship in Nagorno-Karabakh as Lifeline Road Remains Blocked

Click to expand Image Azerbaijanis protesting on the Lachin road, opposite Russian peacekeeping forces, in Nagorno Karabakh, leading to the closure of the road since December 12, 2022. © 2022 Resul...

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Food Crisis in Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh

Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees wait at a UN World Food Program facility to receive food supplements for their children in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, August 24, 2018.  © 2018 Altaf...

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Haiti: FIFA Failing Sex Abuse Survivors

Click to expand Image In this file photo dated Thursday, May 21, 2020, Yves Jean-Bart, then-president of the Haitian Football Federation, wearing a protective face mask, arrives for a court hearing...

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Haiti: FIFA Failing Sex Abuse Survivors

Click to expand Image In this file photo dated Thursday, May 21, 2020, Yves Jean-Bart, then-president of the Haitian Football Federation, wearing a protective face mask, arrives for a court hearing...

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Australia Should Ban New Coal, Oil, and Gas Projects

Click to expand Image The Bayswater Power Station, a coal-powered thermal power station, in New South Wales, Australia, November 2, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Mark Baker Australian lawmakers are engaged in...

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Thousands of Refugee Students Cut off from Classes in Lebanon

Click to expand Image Chairs are placed on classroom tables at a closed public school in Beirut, Lebanon September 22, 2022. © 2022 Mohamed Azakir/Reuters Thousands of Syrian refugee students in...

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South Korea Court Recognizes Equal Benefits for Same-Sex Couple

Click to expand Image So Seong-wook (L) and Kim Yong-min attend a news conference after filing a lawsuit against South Korea’s National Health Insurance Service for dependent family status, in Seoul...

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Iraq: Environmentalists Face Retaliation

Click to expand Image Jassim al-Asadi. © 2023 Private (Beirut) – Iraq’s environmental activists are facing threats, harassment, and arbitrary detention by government officials and armed groups, Human...

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El Salvador Fails to Meet Deadline for Trans Rights Ruling

Click to expand Image © 2022 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch (New York) – El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has brazenly ignored the one-year deadline that the Supreme Court gave it to create a...

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Mexico Needs to Change Its Disabling Legal System

Click to expand Image Lawmakers meet for a plenary session at the Chihuahua state congress, Chihuahua City, Mexico. © 2023 Congreso del Estado de Chihuahua by Claudia Diaz, Intern, Disability Rights...

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Shamima Begum Ruling a Dark Stain on the UK Justice System

Click to expand Image Renu Begum, eldest sister of Shamima Begum, 15, holds her sister's photo as she is interviewed by the media at New Scotland Yard, London, England, February 22, 2015. © 2015 Laura...

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Indonesia: Free Anti-Mining Activist in Sulawesi

Click to expand Image Robison Saul shows bruises that he received from alleged mistreatment in Tahuna prison on Sangihe Island, North Sulawesi province, October 12, 2022. Saul said prison guards beat...

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Tunisia: Wave of Arrests Targets Critics and Opposition Figures

Click to expand Image Kais Saied during the sworn ceremony in Bardo, Tunis, Tunisia on October 23, 2019. © 2019 Nicolas Fauque/Images de Tunisie/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP Images (Tunis) – Tunisian...

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Japan to ‘Appropriately Handle’ Project Benefiting Myanmar’s Military

Click to expand Image Myanmar people living in Japan protest against military rule in their country on the first anniversary of the coup, outside the Japanese prime minister's office in Tokyo,...

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Prominence of Central Asian Countries on The Human Rights Council Is an...

Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019...

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Somalia: Revamp Intelligence Agency Bill

Click to expand Image Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud speaks at his inauguration ceremony in Mogadishu, Somalia, June 9, 2022.  © 2022 AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh (Nairobi) Somalia’s president...

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Nepal: New Government Should Keep Rights Pledges

Click to expand Image Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal appears at parliament in Kathmandu, Nepal, January 10, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha (New York) – Nepal’s new government led...

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Tunisia: President Intensifies Attacks on Judicial Independence

Click to expand Image People enter the Tunis hall of justice, Friday May, 26, 2017. © 2017 Hassene Dridi/AP Images (Tunis) –  Tunisian authorities should immediately reinstate judges and prosecutors...

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Beirut Blast Victims Are Still Reaching for Justice

Click to expand Image Lebanese activists and families of the victims of the 2020 Beirut port blast gather outside the Palace of Justice to protest a decision by Lebanon's top prosecutor to release the...

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