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World Food Day Amid a Global Food Crisis

Click to expand Image Afghan workers prepare food supplies during a humanitarian aid campaign in Kabul, February 16, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Hussein Malla Today is World Food Day, commemorating the...

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The EU Continues to Acquiesce to Greece Border Abuses

Click to expand Image Demonstrators gather in front of the Greek parliament in Athens during a protest against violence at the Greek-Turkish border on February 6, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Yorgos...

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Sri Lanka: Draft ‘Rehabilitation’ Law Would Spur Abuse

Click to expand Image Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe visits the Army Headquarters in Colombo, August 9, 2022. © 2022 Ruwan Walpola/Pacific Press/Sipa via AP Images (New York) – The Sri...

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Fire, Explosions Erupt at Evin Prison in Tehran

Click to expand Image A photo obtained from the Iranian Mizan News Agency on October 16, 2022 shows damage caused by a fire in the notorious Evin prison, northwest of the Iranian capital, Tehran. ©...

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FIFA Yet to Back Workers’ Remedy Fund Despite Growing Support

Click to expand Image Workers outside Al Janoub Stadium, one of the 2022 World Cup stadiums, in Doha, Qatar, Monday, Dec. 16, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Hassan Ammar (New York) – FIFA has yet to officially...

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DR Congo: Army Units Aided Abusive Armed Groups

Click to expand Image People fleeing fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels near Kibumba in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 24, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa (Goma) –...

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UN Rights Body Fails Yemeni People, Again

Click to expand Image A Yemeni boy sits in a dry goods shop in a traditional market in Sanaa. The conflict has left many Yemenis on the brink of starvation and food prices have spiked again amid an...

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Civilians in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region at Heightened Risk

Click to expand Image Displaced Tigrayans sit alongside metal shacks at a reception center for internally displaced people in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, May 9, 2021.  © 2021...

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Haiti: Urgently Address Cholera Outbreak

Click to expand Image A tent where people suffering cholera symptoms are treated at a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, October 7, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph...

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Ukraine: Russian Forces Tortured Izium Detainees

(Kyiv, October 19, 2022) – Russian forces and others operating under their command routinely tortured detainees during their six-month occupation of Izium, a city in the Kharkiv region of northeastern...

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Iraq: Iran Attacks Kill Civilians in Kurdistan Region

Click to expand Image A member of an Iranian opposition party based in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq lies injured on a hospital bed following Iranian air attacks, September 28, 2022.   © 2022 Ismael...

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All Children Have a Right to Pre-Primary Education

Click to expand Image Children attend a lesson at a preschool in Molieres, France, September 5, 2017. © 2017 ERIC CABANIS/AFP via Getty Images The “time has come” for countries to align their...

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Indonesia Shamelessly Abandons Uyghurs

Click to expand Image Indonesia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN Headquarters, September 26,...

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Obstruction Threatens Probe into Disappeared Mexico Students

Click to expand Image Families and friends march in Mexico City seeking justice for the missing 43 Ayotzinapa students on the eighth anniversary of their disappearance, August 26, 2022.  © 2022 Marco...

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Afghanistan: Women Protesters Detail Taliban Abuse

Click to expand Image Taliban fighters fire into the air to disperse women protesters in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 13, 2022. ©2022/ AFP via Getty Images/Wakil Kohsar (New York) – Three Afghan women...

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Qatar/FIFA: Reimburse Migrant Workers’ Recruitment Fees

Click to expand Image Parents of Ram Kishun Sahani, a Nepali migrant worker who died in Qatar.  © 2022 Private (Beirut) – Many migrant workers paid exorbitant and illegal recruitment fees to make the...

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Nepal: Next Parliament Should Prioritize Justice for Conflict Victims

Click to expand Image A Nepali man looks at photographs of disappeared persons displayed by human rights activists at an event to mark the International Day of the Disappeared in Kathmandu, Nepal,...

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US/Mexico: Expelling Venezuelans Threatens Rights, Lives

Click to expand Image Venezuelans walk near a bridge that crosses the Rio Grande River after being expelled from the United States into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022. The Biden...

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Hundreds Flee Attacks in Mozambique’s Ruby Mining Region

Click to expand Image People arrive in Montepuez after fleeing violence in several villages across Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique, October 20, 2022.  © 2022 Private This week, suspected Al-Shabab...

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UN Chief Admonishes India to Protect Rights of Minorities

Click to expand Image Women stand near the rubble of a shop after authorities demolished a number of Muslim-owned businesses after a Hindu religious procession resulted in communal violence, New...

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