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Chinese Diplomats Try Using UN as Shield for Xinjiang Crimes

Click to expand Image Police officers check the identity cards of a people as security forces keep watch in a street in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China on March 24, 2017. © 2017...

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Multiple Knife Attacks in France

Click to expand Image People set flowers at a memorial in front of the Notre Dame church, in Nice, France, October 30, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Daniel Cole The French public has been shaken in recent...

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Egypt Detains Men for Alleged Sexual Orientation, Alongside Alleged Rapists

Click to expand Image Seif Bedour, 21 (Left) and Ahmed al-Ganzoury, 40 (Right) © 2020 Private When Seif Bedour, 21, returned to Egypt this year to visit his family after years studying abroad, he did...

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Russia Should Support Health Workers, Not Silence Them

Click to expand Image A medical specialist wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) takes a break at the City Clinical Hospital Number 15 which delivers treatment to COVID-19 patients in Moscow,...

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Cameroon: Gunmen Massacre School Children

Click to expand Image Screenshot of a video filmed outside Mother Francisca Bilingual Academy, in Kumba, South-West region, after the attack which killed 7 children on October 24, 2020 © Private (New...

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Nepal: Carry Out Rights Panel’s Recommendations

Click to expand Image Nepal's Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli, left, shakes hand with former Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal, February 15, 2018. In May 2018, Oli and Dahal parties merged their...

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Lebanon: Broken Promises On Women’s Rights

Click to expand Image Lebanese women have long been leaders in the country’s protest movements. Here, women shout slogans and wave the Lebanese flag during a demonstration in down town Beirut on...

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What Does the Council of Europe Have Against People with Disabilities?

Click to expand Image The headquarters of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. © 2018 Human Rights Watch In what may seem like a contradiction, the Council of Europe—the continent’s leading human...

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US: Electoral Process Needs Time

Click to expand Image Municipal workers extract Luzerne County ballots from their envelopes, Wednesday, November 4, 2020, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. © AP Photo/Mary Altaffer (New York) – The...

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Oregon Decriminalizes Simple Possession of All Drugs

Click to expand Image Election workers empty ballots at the Multnomah County Elections Division in Portland, Oregon, November 3, 2020.  © 2020 AP Photo/Paula Bronstein Oregon voters have made history...

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Bullying, Violence Common in Schools Worldwide

Click to expand Image Since Lebanon opened classes for Syrian refugee students, the number of children in public schools has more than doubled. But teachers need training in positive discipline....

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Dozens of Prisoners Released in Syria

Click to expand Image A checkpoint in the Syrian city of Daraa. © 2018 Friedemann Kohler/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images On November 4, local news outlets reported that the Syrian government had...

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Belarus: Expert Report Calls for International Inquiry into Torture

Click to expand Image A protester waves the former national Belarus' flag in Minsk, on June 7, 2020, during a collect of signatures in support of alternative candidates ahead of Belarus presidential...

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Several US States Advanced Gender Equality on Election Day

Click to expand Image Boxes of vote-by-mail ballot envelopes are shown at the King County election headquarters in Renton, Washington, October 23, 2020.  © 2020 AP Photo/Ted S. Warren With all eyes...

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Honduras: Regional Court Hears Trans Murder Case

Click to expand Image Picture of Vicky Hernández. © Red Lésbica Cattrachas (New York) – The government of Honduras has an obligation to conduct an effective investigation into any alleged violation of...

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Spain: Respect Rights of People Arriving by Sea to Canary Islands

Click to expand Image Nach einer gefährlichen Reise über den Atlantik verlassen Männer ein Holzboot am Arguineguín-Pier in Gran Canaria. © 2020 Javier Bauluz (Milan) – Spanish authorities should...

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Libya: Outspoken Benghazi Lawyer Murdered

Click to expand Image Hanan Al-Barassi, a Benghazi-based lawyer, was assassinated by unidentified gunmen on November 10, 2020, in her hometown. © 2020, Hanan Al-Barassi’s Facebook Live (Beirut) –...

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Russia: New Effort to Stifle Independent Groups

Click to expand Image Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin addresses the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s Parliament, in Moscow, Russia. July 22, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko...

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Afghan Victims Deserve Justice in Australian Inquiry

Click to expand Image Australian SAS search operation in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, in May 2012. Screenshot from ABC News, Four Corners, March 16, 2020. The Australian military has long been known...

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New Philippine Police Chief Has Troubling Record

Click to expand Image Major General Debold Sinas. © NCRPO PIO/Facebook President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed police Maj. Gen. Debold Sinas as the new head of the Philippine National Police (PNP),...

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