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Lebanon: US Arms Used in Israeli Strike on Journalists

Click to expand Image Two destroyed vehicles and a demolished building where three journalists were killed in an Israeli airstrike at the Hasbaya Village Resort, in sourthern Lebanon on October 25,...

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Confronting South Africa’s Crisis of Gender-Based Violence

Click to expand Image Protesters march against gender-based violence in front of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, South Africa, September 13, 2019. © 2019 Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images...

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UN: Russia Vetoes Sudan Resolution Despite Global Support

Click to expand Image Displaced people gather to receive free breakfast meals at a neighborhood in Omdurman city, Sudan, August 1, 2024.  © 2024 Mohamed Khidir/Xinhua via Getty Images Tomorrow Russia...

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Lack of Progress at COP29 Puts Rights at Risk

Click to expand Image The COP29 U.N. Climate Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 9, 2024. © 2024 Peter Dejong/AP Photo The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), which wrapped up last...

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This #16Days, Remember Afghan Women and Girls

Click to expand Image An Afghan woman weaves a carpet at a factory on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, November 11, 2024. © 2024 Wakil Kosher/AFP via Getty Images The plight of Afghan women and...

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Sri Lanka: New President Should Reset Course on Rights

Click to expand Image Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (right) and Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya during the swearing-in of the new cabinet members on November 18, 2024, in Colombo,...

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EU Should Reaffirm Support for ICC Arrests

Click to expand Image European Union flags wave in the wind as pedestrians walk by EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File After the International...

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UN Report Portrays Afghanistan’s Destroyed Media

Click to expand Image The Taliban flag flies over a National Radio Television of Takhar (RTA) building in Talogan, Afghanistan, on October 15, 2024. © 2024 AFP via Getty Images Today’s United Nations...

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Chad: No Justice for Post Election Celebratory Shooting

Click to expand Image A resident of the Ridina district in N'Djamena shows the fragments of a projectile, that fell into a house on May 9, 2024, in N'Djamena following the announcement of the...

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Myanmar: ICC Prosecutor Requests Arrest Warrant

Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees walk through rice fields after crossing the border from Myanmar into Palang Khali, Bangladesh, October 19, 2017. © 2017 Jorge Silva/Reuters (New York) – The...

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China State Bank Shouldn’t Back East African Crude Oil Pipeline

Click to expand Image Oil drilling pipes at the Tilenga Industrial Area, which will host the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), in Bulisa, Uganda, October 25, 2023. © 2023 Luke Dray/Bloomberg...

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Indonesian Domestic Workers’ Long Wait for Reform

Click to expand Image Activists during a protest and hunger strike demanding that parliament to pass a bill to protect domestic workers, at the parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 14, 2023. ©...

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Kazakhstan: Ensure Journalist Gets Fair Appeal

Click to expand Image Daniyar Adilbekov sitting in the defendants’ box at trial in Astana, Kazakhstan, September 2024. © 2024 Private (Berlin, November 28, 2024) – The authorities in Kazakhstan should...

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State of Mexico Congress Votes to Decriminalize Abortion

Click to expand Image Green handkerchiefs bearing the slogan "Abortion for All of Mexico" in front of the State of Mexico Congress on September 19, 2024, in Toluca, Mexico.  © 2024 GIRE (Toluca) – The...

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Zimbabwe Opposition Activists Freed After Five Months

Click to expand Image Activists with the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change party arrive at the Magistrates' courts in Harare, Zimbabwe, June 19, 2024.  © 2024 MUNASHE...

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Australia Passes Harsh New Anti-Migration Laws

Click to expand Image Activists gather in Brisbane's ANZAC Square to protest the indefinite detention of refugees and asylum seekers in Australian-run and funded facilities on the mainland and on...

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Thailand: Cambodian Refugees Forcibly Returned

Click to expand Image Detainees stand behind cell bars at the police immigration detention center in Bangkok, Thailand, January 21, 2019. © 2019 Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo (Bangkok, November 29, 2024) –...

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Iranian Authorities Allegedly Sexually Assaulted Journalist

Prison officers allegedly sexually assaulted and harassed Vida Rabbani, an Iranian journalist and activist, during a body search at Evin Prison in Tehran on October 3, an informed source told Human...

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Guinea: Rights at Risk as Promised Transition Derails

Click to expand Image Poster of Gen. Mamady Doumbouya in Conakry's streets, Guinea, September 2024  © 2024 Human Rights Watch The military authorities in Guinea have cracked down on the opposition,...

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ICC: Member States Should Act to Protect Justice

Click to expand Image Exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. © 2021 AP Photo/Peter Dejong Member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should...

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