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Myanmar: Investors Should Act to Halt Funds to Junta

(New York) – Payments by energy and extractive companies to entities under the control of the Myanmar military are providing key funds to sustain the junta and pose serious legal, financial, and...

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Intersex Person Victim of Horrific Attack in Cameroon

A violent mob sexually assaulted, beat, threatened, and humiliated a 27-year-old intersex person on November 15, in Yaoundé, Cameroon’s capital. The perpetrators filmed the attack, which lasted for...

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Nepal: 15 Years On, Act on Peace Agreement Pledges

Click to expand Image Nepalese human rights activists and relatives point to photographs of disappeared persons at an event to mark the International Day of the Disappeared, in Kathmandu, August 30,...

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UAE: Dissidents Labeled ‘Terrorists’

Click to expand Image Saeed al-Tenaiji (top left), Hamad al-Shamsi (top right), Ahmed al-Shaiba al-Nuaimi (bottom left), and Mohammed Saqr al-Zaabi (bottom right).  © Private 2021 (Beirut) – UAE...

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Egypt: UNDP Report Whitewashes Human Rights Violations

Click to expand Image President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi appears with UNDP officials at the release of the new UNDP Egypt report in the new administrative capital, east of Cairo, September 14, 2021....

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Egypt: End Harassment of Rights Defender

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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Afghanistan: Taliban Crackdown on Media Worsens

Click to expand Image Taliban fighters stand guard at the entrance to the former Ministry of Women Affairs, which the Taliban has replaced with the Ministry of Vice and Virtue, which oversees the...

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US: Texas Targeting Migrants

Click to expand Image Texas Governor Greg Abbott talks about Operation Lone Star during a press conference at the Texas Department of Public Safety Weslaco Regional Office on April 1, 2021, in...

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Olympics: Don’t Promote Chinese State Propaganda

Click to expand Image Peng Shuai waves at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia on January 15, 2019.  © AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File (New York) – The International...

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Sudan: Security Forces Use Lethal Force on Protesters

Click to expand Image Protestors clash with police in Khartoum, Sudan during a protest against the October military takeover of the transitional government, November 17, 2021 © 2021 AP Photo/Marwan...

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Bangladesh: Halt Forced Relocation of Rohingya Refugees

Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees board a ship while being moved to Bhasan Char, Bangladesh, December 29, 2020. © 2020 Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto via AP (New York) – Bangladesh authorities...

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Documents Claim France Abets Deadly Egyptian Air Strikes

Click to expand Image French President Emmanuel Macron, left, greets Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi before a conference with several world leaders in Paris, November 12, 2021.  © 2021 AP...

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Belarus/Poland: Abuse, Pushbacks At Border

Click to expand Image Two women and a child huddle in sleeping bags on the forest floor after crossing the Polish-Belarusian border near Michalowo on October 6, 2021. © 2021 Maciej...

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South Africa: Broken Promises to Aid Gender-Based Violence Survivors

Click to expand Image General view during the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) protest march organized by the Office of The Premier in collaboration with Phepha Foundation on April 26, 2021 in Durban,...

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Central African Republic: Minister Faces Atrocity Charges

Click to expand Image Hassan Bouba Ali (R) with Ali Darassa (C) surrounded by other UPC leaders, during a meeting at their headquarters in Alindao, October 2017. © 2017 Alexis Huguet (Nairobi) – The...

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LGBT Qataris Call Foul Ahead of 2022 World Cup

Click to expand Image A general view of the Al Thumama Stadium is seen in Doha, Qatar, October 22, 2021. The stadium will be one of the venues for the 2022 World Cup. © 2021 AP Photo/Hussein Sayed As...

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Biden Administration Confronts US Anti-Trans Violence

Click to expand Image Celebrating the life of Marsha P. Johnson on what would have been her 75th Birthday, members of the LGBTQI+ community and their allies assembled in Washington Square Park in New...

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Yemen: Houthi Forces Attack, Displace Villagers

Click to expand Image A truck searches for victims under the rubble. The house was destroyed by a Houthi missile in Al-Amoud in al-Jubah district, Marib governorate pictured on October 29, 2021. ©...

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Morocco: Journalist in Prison After Unfair Trial

Click to expand Image Supporters of Omar Radi in front of the Casablanca Courthouse, Morocco, September 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar (New York) – Omar Radi, an investigative journalist in...

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Belarus’s Political Crackdown Affects Everyday Life

Click to expand Image View of the Catholic Church in Hrodna, Belarus.  © Tanya Lokshina/Human Rights Watch This October, my colleague and I spent a few days in Hrodna, Belarus’s fifth largest city and...

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