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Reimagine Global Food Systems to Prevent Hunger and Protect Rights

Click to expand Image A trader checks the quality of wheat at a wholesale grain market near Sonipat, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India on May 17, 2022.  © 2022 Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto via AP The...

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New York Committee to Investigate State’s Child Welfare System

Click to expand Image Protesters hold signs at a demonstration in Brooklyn, New York calling to defund the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), on June 20, 2020. © 2020 Erik...

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Thailand: Free Detained Monarchy Reform Activists

Click to expand Image Tantawan “Tawan” Tuatulanon, a Thai pro-democracy activist, has been on a hunger strike since April 20, 2022 to protest her pre-trial detention on lese majeste charges. © 2022...

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Myanmar: Japan-Trained Officer Among Abusive Forces

Click to expand Image A military helicopter from the Myanmar Air Force fires at a target during the first day of the “Sin Phyu Shin” joint military exercises on February 2, 2018, in the Ayeyarwaddy...

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DR Congo: No Inquiry into Police Role in Ethnic Killings

Click to expand Image Police officers were implicated in the extrajudicial executions of (left to right) Sylvie Mapera, Carine Kavugho and Moise Mbusa in Buhene, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of...

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EU: Bolster Justice Efforts Worldwide

Click to expand Image European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, October 28, 2015. © 2015 Reuters (Brussels) – The European Union (EU) and its member...

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Afghans Call to #FreeHerFace

Click to expand Image TV anchor Nesar Nabil wears a face mask to protest the Taliban's new order that female presenters cover their faces, as he reads the news on TOLOnews, in Kabul, Afghanistan, May...

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AU: Focus on Root Causes of Conflict, Political Instability

Click to expand Image A government soldier walks past a group of villagers displaced by fighting in Burkina Faso’s northern Sahel region, February 3, 2020. © 2020 Olympia de Maismont/AFP via Getty...

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Australia: Crucial Need for Ambitious Climate Action

Click to expand Image Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks next to newly appointed Foreign Minister Penny Wong during a press conference at Parliament House on May 23, 2022 in Canberra, Australia. ©...

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The US Is Falling Behind Other Democracies When It Comes to Abortion

Click to expand Image Activists celebrate the decriminalization of abortion, outside the Constitutional Court in Bogota, Colombia on February 21, 2022.  © 2022 Chepa Beltran / VWPics via AP Images...

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Court Ends Suspension of NGO in Uganda

Click to expand Image Nicholas Opiyo, human rights lawyer and founder of Chapter Four Uganda, holds the German Africa Award 2017 of the German Africa Foundation in Berlin, Germany, 23 November 23,...

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FIFA Should Listen to Families of Qatar’s Migrant Workers

Mairul Khatun recalls panicking when she could not contact her husband, Mohammad Naddaf, a migrant worker in Qatar, for four days. A search team of friends and relatives found his body four days...

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Oklahoma’s Bathroom Ban Will Endanger Transgender Children

Click to expand Image The state Capitol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, July 30, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki Oklahoma’s legislature has passed a bill that would ban transgender students from using...

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When War Crimes Evidence Disappears

Click to expand Image The YouTube video sharing application is seen on an iPhone with the symbol for unavailable content in the background in this photo illustration on December 1, 2017. © 2017 Sipa...

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Governments Harm Children’s Rights in Online Learning

Click to expand Image © Andrea Devia Nuño, Hero Studios (Tokyo) – Governments of 49 of the world’s most populous countries harmed children’s rights by endorsing online learning products during...

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Moldova: Romani Refugees from Ukraine Face Segregation

Click to expand Image Refugees standing in the hallway of FRISPA center where most Romani refugees from Ukraine are accommodated, April 9, 2022.  © 2022 Pablo Miranzo Macia/Anadolu Agency via Getty...

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Still No Justice in Somalia Health Workers Massacre

Click to expand Image An ambulance transports patients to a hospital from a camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts Mogadishu, Somalia, March 2017. © 2017 REUTERS/Feisal Omar Two years...

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Bulgaria: Migrants Brutally Pushed Back at Turkish Border

Click to expand Image Bulgarian police patrol the border fence on the Bulgaria-Turkey border near the village of Matochina on November 4, 2021. © 2021 Nikolay Doychinov/AFP via Getty Images (Brussels)...

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Turkey Fails Domestic Violence Victims

Click to expand Image (From left) Güllü Yılmaz, Ayşe Tuba Arslan, Müzeyyen Boylu, Pelda Karaduman and Remziye Yoldaş were killed by current or former husbands or partners, even though they had secured...

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Another Police Raid in Rio Leaves 26 Dead

Click to expand Image Relatives bury Gabrielle Ferreira da Cunha, 41, who was killed during a police raid in the Vila Cruzeiro neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 25, 2022. © 2022 AP...

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