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Yemen: UAE-Backed Forces Torture Journalist

Click to expand Image Members of UAE-backed southern Yemeni separatist forces stand by a tank during clashes with government forces in Aden, Yemen August 10, 2019. © 2019 REUTERS/Fawaz Salman (Sanaa)...

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Haiti: Attacks on Judicial Independence

Click to expand Image Heavily armed police are part of the group delivering Supreme Court justice Yvickel Dabrésil along with other detained individuals into custody at the penitentiary in...

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Sweden To Investigate Illegal Intercountry Adoptions

Click to expand Image Vy över Sveriges parlament (riksdag) i Stockholm den 9 april 2006. © WikiPedia/Creative Commons A recent inquiry in the Netherlands into intercountry adoptions uncovered such...

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Uganda’s Beaten Journalists Deserve Justice

Click to expand Image In this file photo, people look down from a balcony as military police deploy in downtown Kampala, Uganda, February 20, 2016.  © 2016 AP Photo/Ben Curtis On February 17, military...

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Japan Hair Controversy Highlights Harmful School Policies

Click to expand Image High school students wearing face masks walk in Tokyo, January 16, 2021.  © 2021 The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images  A recent case in Osaka, Japan, about hair color, highlights...

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German Court to Issue First Verdict in Syria Torture Trial

Click to expand Image Photos of Syrians who have been detained or disappeared set up by Families for Freedom, as part of a protest in front of the court in Koblenz, July 2, 2020.  © 2020 Alexander...

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Tunisia: Police Arrest, Use Violence Against LGBTI Activists

Click to expand Image Protesters gather in Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, Tunisia on February 6, 2021. © 2021 Karim Saadi (Beirut) – Tunisian security forces have repeatedly targeted protesters,...

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Attacks Targeting Afghan Civilians Spread Terror

Click to expand Image Kabul street where gunmen fatally shot two women judges who worked for Afghanistan's high court, and wounded their driver, January 17, 2021.  © 2021 AP Photo/Rahmat Gul With...

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Germany: MPs Should Strengthen Proposed Supply Chain Law

Click to expand Image "Peter," 15, working alongside a teenage girl at an artisanal and small-scale mine in Odahu, Amansie West district, Ghana.  © 2016 Juliane Kippenberg for Human Rights Watch...

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Philippines: Free Duterte Critic Held 4 Years

Click to expand Image Philippines opposition Senator Leila de Lima, second right, shows the printout of her cast ballot for the country's midterm elections on May 13, 2019 in Paranaque, southeast of...

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Algeria’s Hirak Protest Movement Marks Second Anniversary

Click to expand Image Algerians demonstrate in Algiers to mark the second anniversary of the Hirak movement, February 22, 2021.  © 2021 AP Photo/Toufik Doudou The numbers were down from the hundreds...

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UN Should Speak Up on Covid-19 “Pandemic of Human Rights Abuses”

Click to expand Image Police block a street in Russia’s capital, Moscow, on July 15, 2020, during a protest against the results of voting on constitutional amendments. The mayor’s office had banned...

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Iraq: Detentions of Alleged “Death Squad”

Click to expand Image Ali Naseer Alawy, after armed masked men beat him and used an acid mixture to try to remove a tattoo on his arm. © 2021 Private (Beirut) – On February 15, Iraqi authorities...

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UN Security Council: Impose Arms Embargo on Myanmar

Click to expand Image A police officer stands in front of anti-coup protesters in Yangon, Myanmar, February 19, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo (New York) – The United Nations Security Council should urgently...

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China: Baseless Imprisonments Surge in Xinjiang

Click to expand Image A perimeter fence around what is officially known as a” vocational skills education center” in Dabancheng in China's Xinjiang region, September 2018.  © 2018 Reuters/Thomas Peter...

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Malaysia: Investigate Return of 1,086 Myanmar Nationals

Click to expand Image Image taken from a video of an immigration truck with security guards and unidentified people on the road to Lumut Naval Base on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 in Lumut, Malaysia.  ©...

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Canada Should Match US Climate Ambitions

Click to expand Image Weenusk First Nation member, Mike Wabano, sets up camp for caribou hunting on a frozen river near Peawanuck, December 14, 2019. As a result of warming temperatures, ice and snow...

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Hong Kong Repression’s True Cost

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 The Hong Kong government’s...

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Dozens Killed in Prison Uprisings in Ecuador

Click to expand Image Tear gas rises from parts of Turi jail where an inmate riot broke out in Cuenca, Ecuador, February 23, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Marcelo Suquilanda Riots that broke out in four large...

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Saudi Arabia: Proposed Reforms Neglect Basic Rights

Click to expand Image The face of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appears on a large billboard on West Cromwell Road, on March 7, 2018, in London, England. "He is bringing change to Saudi...

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