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Egypt: Leading Rights Group Official Arrested

Click to expand Image Several European diplomats attend a meeting at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights' (EIPR) office in Cairo on November 3, 2020.  © 2020 Egyptian Initiative for Personal...

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Iran: No Justice for Bloody 2019 Crackdown

Click to expand Image Iranian protesters gather around a burning car during a demonstration against an increase in gasoline prices in the capital Tehran, on November 16, 2019.  © AFP/Getty Images...

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Ukraine: Armed Groups’ Arbitrary Pandemic Restrictions

Click to expand Image People listen to an armed man with the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic as they wait before crossing the line of contact at a checkpoint, which was temporary closed due...

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Trump Administration Moves to Entrench Global Gag Rule

Click to expand Image A woman walks past a mural on a Family Health Options clinic in the Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya, May 16, 2017. © 2017 Reuters With attention turning toward what the...

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Trans People at Risk in Honduras

Click to expand Image People participate in the March against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on May 17, 2019. © 2019 Mirte Postema/Human Rights Watch William Alejandro...

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Guatemala: Congress Assaulting Judicial Independence

Click to expand Image Lawmakers vote in Congress, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on September 11, 2017. © REUTERS/Luis Echeverria (Washington, DC) – The Guatemalan Congress’s efforts to press criminal...

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Bad News for the US on World Prematurity Day

Click to expand Image Farmworkers, considered essential workers under the current Covid-19 pandemic guidelines, work a strawberry field in Santa Paula, California, April 15, 2020.  © 2020 AP...

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Myanmar’s Military Still Using Children in Fighting

Click to expand Image Myanmar military officers salute at their national flag during a ceremony to mark the 72nd anniversary of Independence Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar.  © 2020 AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo...

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Hungary: Intensified Attack on LGBT People

Click to expand Image People march with a giant rainbow flag from the parliament building in Budapest during the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Pride Parade on July 6, 2019. © © 2019...

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Haiti: End Sexual Abuse in Football

Click to expand Image Residents of the Centre Technique National in Croix-des-Bouquets play in a match on May 12, 2020. Earlier this year, survivors and family members accused Haitian Football...

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Film Shows Why George Soros Believes in an Open Society

Click to expand Image SOROS © 2020 Vital Pictures, LLC. All of us are the product of our backgrounds. George Soros is no exception. “Soros,” a new documentary about him opening tonight, shows vividly...

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Australia: Follow Up Afghan Report with Prosecutions

Click to expand Image Australian SAS search operation in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, in May 2012. Screenshot from ABC News, Four Corners, March 16, 2020. (Sydney) – The findings of the four-year...

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Pushbacks in Greek Waters Put Lives at Risk

Click to expand Image An officer from the European Union’s border protection agency, Frontex, holds the arm of a migrant as they board a ferry in the port of Mytilini, Lesbos island, Greece, on...

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Guinea: Post-Election Violence, Repression

(New York) – The post presidential-election period in Guinea has been marred with violence and repression, with at least 12 people dead, Human Rights Watch said today. Following the October 18, 2020...

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Turkey: Opposition Politicians Detained for Four Years

Click to expand Image Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-chair of the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been held in Edirne F-type Prison since November 4, 2016. © 2020 Private (Istanbul) –...

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Thailand: Police Violence Against Democracy Demonstrators

Click to expand Image Democracy demonstrators take cover with inflatable ducks and umbrellas as police use water cannons during a protest rally near the parliament in Bangkok, November 17, 2020.  ©...

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Lame Duck US Congress Should Pass Bill to Study Reparations for Slavery

Click to expand Image A young boy raises his fist during a demonstration in Atlanta, Georgia, May 31, 2020. © 2020 Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images Before the 116th US Congress adjourns for the year, it...

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Greece Commits to End “Protective” Child Detention

Click to expand Image Unaccompanied children line up for an evening meal at a detention facility run by the Greek police.   © 2015 Kelly Lynn Lunde In a huge victory for children’s rights, the Greek...

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Still no Accountability for Hong Kong’s Police Force

Click to expand Image A protester is tackled by riot police during a demonstration outside the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, June 12, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Kin Cheung Among the gloomy news coming...

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Uganda: Authorities Weaponize Covid-19 for Repression

Click to expand Image Musician and opposition candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine during a press conference in Kampala, Uganda, October 1, 2019. © 2019 Sipa via AP Images (Nairobi) – The arrest...

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