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How to Help US Families Hit Hardest by Covid-19

Click to expand Image A restaurant employee with her son leaves with her paycheck, in Brooklyn, New York, March 19, 2020. The restaurant company, which has closed its four locations due to the...

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Russian Activist Spends Two Years Under House Arrest

January 23 marks two years of house arrest for Russian activist Anastasiya Shevchenko. Police raided her apartment in Rostov-on-Don on January 21, 2019, before a court placed her under house arrest two...

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Honduras: Attack on Reproductive Rights, Marriage Equality

Click to expand Image Women participate in a march in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, for International Women’s Day on March 8, 2019. Some wear green handkerchiefs, a symbol of the abortion...

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Central African Republic: First Seleka Suspect in ICC Custody

Click to expand Image Permanent premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. © 2018 Marina Riera/Human Rights Watch The surrender by Central African Republic authorities...

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Covid-19 School Closures, Inaction Fuel Children’s Loss of Education

Click to expand Image A chalkboard with text and formulas in a secondary school classroom in the city of Mwanza, Tanzania. © 2016 Elin Martinez/Human Rights Watch “I feel like the earth has just...

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Russia: Police Detain Thousands in Pro-Navalny Protests

Click to expand Image Police officers clash with people during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. © AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin...

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Thailand Should Fully Decriminalize All Abortion

Click to expand Image Protesters led by the Woman Help Woman group, the Free Feminist and other women's rights groups march to Parliament to protest Thailand's abortion law, Bangkok, December 23, 2020...

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Malaysia: Government Steps Up Attacks on LGBT People

Click to expand Image Transgender people face discrimination and abuse from state officials and agents, including from public sector health workers, teachers, and local government administrators. ©...

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African Union: No Reparations for Ex-Chad President’s Victims

Click to expand Image Supporters of Habre's victims, Dakar, 2015. © 2015 Reed Brody/HRW (Addis Ababa) – The African Union has yet to set up a Trust Fund to compensate victims of the former Chadian...

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US: Protect Tenants’ Right to Adequate Housing

Click to expand Image Tenants’ rights advocates demonstrate in front of the Edward W. Brook Courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts, January 13, 2021. © 2021 Michael Dwyer/AP Photo (Washington) – Federal...

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Japan: Introduce LGBT Equality Act Before Olympics

Click to expand Image LGBT Rainbow Flag  © 2008 Ludovic Berton (Wikimedia Commons) (Tokyo) – Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan should commit to introducing a law to protect against discrimination...

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An Innovative Approach to Justice for New York Police Violence

Click to expand Image New York City police detain a legal observer during a peaceful protest in Mott Haven on June 4, 2020. © 2020 C.S. Muncy The Bronx Defenders, a public legal defense organization...

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Oklahoma Wants to Make Gender-Affirming Care a Crime

Click to expand Image The transgender pride flag.  © Wikimedia Commons Oklahoma lawmakers have introduced a new bill that would make it a felony to provide gender-affirming medical treatment, other...

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UAE: Persecution of Rights Defender

Click to expand Image In this Aug. 25, 2016 file photo, human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor speaks to Associated Press journalists in Ajman, United Arab Emirates. © 2016 AP Photo/Jon Gambrell (Beirut)...

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Greece: Migrant Camp Lead Contamination

Click to expand Image A child plays next to an earth digger moving soil on Mavrovouni hill on January 25, 2021.  © 2021 DunyaCollective The Greek government should release test results and other vital...

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ICC to Rule on Lord’s Resistance Army Leader

Click to expand Image Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army, waits for the judge to arrive as he made his first appearance at the International Criminal Court in The Hague,...

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France: End Systemic Police Discrimination

Click to expand Image Police perform a stop during the Covid-19 lockdown in Nice, France, April 8, 2020 © 2020 Eric Gaillard/Reuters (Paris) – Police in France engage in longstanding and widespread...

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New York City Should Support Street Vending for a More Just Recovery

Click to expand Image Street vendors and supporters march across Brooklyn Bridge during a rally in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, November 12, 2020. © 2020 Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty...

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US: Newly Released Files Show Fast-Track to Deportation

Click to expand Image Migrants seeking asylum wait in line with their case paperwork to meet with an attorney on Oct. 5, 2019, during a weekly trip by volunteers, lawyers, paralegals and interpreters...

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Time to Stop Ethnic Profiling in France

Click to expand Image Police perform a stop during the Covid-19 lockdown in Nice, France, April 8, 2020 © 2020 Eric Gaillard/Reuters Yesterday in Paris, a bailiff delivered a 145-page letter putting...

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