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Kazakhstan’s ‘Reformed’ Protest Law Hardly an Improvement
Click to expand ImageKazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokaev takes the oath during his inauguration ceremony in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. © 2019 Vladislav Vodnev / Sputnik via AP This week, Kazakhstan’s...
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Ai Weiwei’s Mass Activism Partnership with Human Rights Watch
Click to expand ImageMasks imprinted with artwork by Ai Wei Wei, including symbols of free speech, surveillance, persecution, mass obedience, and defiance. These and others are for sale on eBay for...
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Confirmed Death of Alleged Rwandan Genocidaire
Just days after the arrest in France of Félicien Kabuga, one of the Rwandan genocide’s alleged masterminds, came the announcement that the remains of another – Augustin Bizimana, the minister of...
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New Zika Cases in Brazil Overshadowed by Covid-19
Click to expand ImageRaquel, 25, holds her daughter Heloisa in Areia, Paraíba state, Brazil. Raquel gave birth to twin daughters with Zika syndrome in April 2016. “I want to give my best to my...
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Yemen Keeps Religious Minority Members Locked Up
Click to expand ImageIn this file photo, members of the Baha'i faith protest in Sanaa, Yemen, during a hearing in the case of a fellow Baha'i man suspected of contacts with Israel and charged with...
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People with Disabilities Needed in Fight Against Climate Change
Click to expand ImageVolunteers tend to a man in a wheelchair and his partner, after they were rescued during flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey in Orange, Texas, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. © 2019 AP...
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Senegal/Chad: No Reparations for Ex-Dictator’s Victims
Click to expand ImagePhoto courtesy of the Association of Victims of the Crimes of Hissène Habré © 2020(Dakar) – The victims of the former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré have yet to receive any...
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Germany to Protect Meatpacking Workers Better
Click to expand Image© 2019 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights WatchThe meatpacking industry in Germany, like the meatpacking industry in the United States, has recently seen outbreaks of Covid-19 at...
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The Case for Reparations in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Click to expand ImageReverend Robert Turner of the historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, damaged in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, leads a reconciliatory pilgrimage of sorts from...
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US: Provide Reparations for 1921 ‘Tulsa Race Massacre’
Click to expand ImageReverend Robert Turner of the historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, damaged in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, leads a reconciliatory pilgrimage of sorts from...
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Nepal: Amend Intrusive Intelligence Bill
Click to expand ImagePrime Minister KP Sharma Oli attends this year's fiscal policy and programs during complete nationwide lockdown at federal parliament in Kathmandu, Nepal on Friday, May 15, 2020. ©...
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Ending Hungary’s State of Emergency Won’t End Authoritarianism
Click to expand ImageHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, center, his deputy Zsolt Semjen and other government members and MPs of the governing Fidesz party vote on a draft law concerning...
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US: Trump Attacks Social Media Platforms
Click to expand ImageA moving billboard with an image depicting President Trump as Pinocchio circles the White House, May 28, 2020. © 2020 Eric Kayne/AP Images for AVAAZ(Washington, DC, May 29, 2020) –...
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Russia: Journalists Held Over Peaceful Pickets
Click to expand ImageEcho of Moscow journalist, Tatiana Feleghengauer, detained by police on May 28, 2020. © 2020 Igor Ivanenko/Kommersant/Sipa USA via AP Images(Moscow) – Moscow police on May 28, 2020...
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People in Institutions in Brazil at Risk from Covid-19
Click to expand ImageA psychiatric ward in an institution in Rio de Janeiro. Residents of most institutions in Brazil live in depersonalized conditions, have few if any personal belongings, and have...
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Rights Language in Algeria’s Draft Constitution No Comfort to Jailed Journalist
Click to expand ImageAn Algerian demonstrator holds the Algerian national flag as he stage a protest against the government in Algiers, Algeria, Friday, Nov.29, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Toufik DoudouIf...
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Trending rights tweets this week: Rare 1920s footage of Greenwood, an African-American enclave in Tulsa, Oklahoma, once known as the “Black Wall Street;” the most severe blow to the rights of people in...
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US: Senate Should Reject EARN IT Act
Click to expand ImageA view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on May 28, 2020. © 2020 Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP Images(Washington, DC) – The United States Senate Judiciary Committee...
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Boys’ Drawings Expose Greece’s Broken Detention System
Click to expand ImageIbrahim, a 14-year-old boy from Somalia, was detained by Greek police for almost three months at a detention center in Amygdaleza, a police-run detention facility on the outskirts...
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Burundi: Intimidation, Arrests During Elections
Click to expand ImageWomen queue to cast their votes in the presidential election, in Giheta, Gitega province, Burundi, May 20, 2020. © 2020 Berthier Mugiraneza/AP Photo(Nairobi) – Serious allegations...
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