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Gambia Calls for Justice as Rohingya Face Dire Threats

Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees await the arrival of a U.N. Security Council team at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, April 29, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/A.M. Ahad A...

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South Sudan: Government Critics Held on Dubious Charges

Click to expand Image South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, center, arrives for the opening session of the 33rd African Union (AU) Summit at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 9,...

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EU: Keep Borders Open for People Fleeing Ukraine

Click to expand Image People fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine arrive at a temporary camp in Przemysl, Poland, February 28, 2022. © 2022 REUTERS/Yara Nardi (Brussels) – The European Union and...

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France Expands Abortion Access in Two Key Moves

Click to expand Image People attend a rally to defend the right of abortion in Paris, France on September 26, 2020.  © 2020 Pierrick Villette/Avenir Pictures/Abaca/Sipa via AP Images Over the past 10...

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Afghanistan: Hunger Crisis Has Economic Roots

Click to expand Image Afghans waiting in lines to receive emergency assistance from the World Food Program (WFP) in Kabul, Afghanistan, November 3, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Bram Janssen (Washington, DC)...

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In Afghanistan, Burning Our Past to Protect Our Future

Click to expand Image Documents and laptop destroyed by a resident to avoid confiscation by the Taliban, in Kabul, February 28, 2022. © 2022 Private “I had to burn all of your books and your...

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United Kingdom: Provide Sanctuary to Those Fleeing Ukraine

Click to expand Image People fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, cross train tracks to get to a train leaving for Poland, at the train station in Lviv, Ukraine, February 28, 2022. © 2022...

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Reinvigorating Public Housing by ‘Reimagining’ Eviction in NYC

Click to expand Image The Queensbridge Houses, managed by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), sit beneath the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, November 16, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Mark Lennihan The...

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Global Plastics Treaty: A Historic Opportunity to Protect Human Rights

Click to expand Image UN Environment Assembly President Espen Barth Eide walks past a heap of plastic bottle waste during a field trip to Dandora Dumping site in Nairobi, Kenya ahead of the Fifth...

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Ukraine: Countries Request ICC War Crimes Inquiry

Click to expand Image Permanent premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. © 2018 Marina Riera/Human Rights Watch Thirty-eight governments have taken a significant...

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Pending Execution Highlights Singapore’s Failures on Disability Rights

Click to expand Image Activists demonstrate against the impending execution of Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, sentenced to death for trafficking heroin into Singapore, outside the Singaporean Embassy in...

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Afghan Women Watching the Walls Close In

Click to expand Image A woman wearing a burqa walks to her home in Kabul, Afghanistan, November 14, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris When the Taliban gained control of Afghanistan on August...

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Sri Lanka: UN Report Describes Alarming Rights Situation

Click to expand Image Tamil National Alliance lawmaker Shanakiyan Rasamanickam urges repeal of the abusive Prevention of Terrorism Act, Colombo, Sri Lanka, February 15, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Eranga...

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Greece Should Know that Refugees Can Come from Anywhere

Click to expand Image A dinghy with migrants, left, in the narrow stretch of water between the eastern Greek island of Lesbos and the Turkish coast on April 2, 2021. © 2021 Hellenic Coast Guard via AP...

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Cameroon Court Punishes Anti-LGBTI Violence

Last week a court in Cameroon handed down a 6-month prison sentence and fine of 650,000 CFA (US$1,106) to one of the perpetrators of a violent attack on an intersex person last year in Yaoundé,...

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Qatar: Wage Abuses by Firm in World Cup Leadup

Click to expand Image Doha Skyline, Qatar.  © 2018 Šarūnas Burdulis (Beirut) – Migrant workers at a prominent Qatari trading and construction firm have not received their salaries for up to five...

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Florida’s 15-Week Abortion Ban Threatens Rights and Dignity

Click to expand Image Advocates stand at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee to protest a bill before the Florida legislature to limit abortions, February 16, 2022. © 2022 Photo by Mark...

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Ukraine: Cluster Munitions Launched Into Kharkiv Neighborhoods

Click to expand Image The cargo section of a 9M55K cluster munition rocket that hit a street in Kharkiv. The 72 submunitions would have been stacked inside this carrier. © 2022 Private Russian forces...

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The UK Sees No Evil in Bahrain’s Detention of Children

Click to expand Image © 2016 Human Rights Watch Despite mounting evidence of abuse, the United Kingdom government has yet to criticize or even retract statements that appear to support Bahrain’s...

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Ukraine: Unequal Treatment for Foreigners Attempting to Flee

Click to expand Image Nigerian students in Ukraine wait on a platform in Lviv railway station for a train to evacuate across the border, Sunday, February 27, 2022 in Lviv, west Ukraine. © AP...

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