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Prevent Civilian Harm from Explosive Weapons

Click to expand Image A fireman stands in the ruins of a building destroyed by a Russian cruise missile, which also injured several civilians, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, July 9, 2022. © 2022 Alex Chan Tsz...

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US: Protect the Right to Vote

Click to expand Image (Washington, DC) – Election officials in the United States have human rights obligations to ensure that everyone entitled to vote in the November 8, 2022 elections are able to do...

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Chad: Scores of Protesters Shot Dead, Wounded

Click to expand Image A barricade is set on fire during anti- government barricades in N'Djamena, Chad, October 20, 2022.  © 2022 AP Photo (Nairobi) – Security forces fired on protesters in several...

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US: Anti-Trans Bills Also Harm Intersex Children

Click to expand Image People rally to end intersex surgeries in New York City, October 27, 2018.  © 2018 Hunter Abrams (New York) – The spate of anti-transgender legislative proposals across the...

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New UK Prime Minister’s Cabinet Raises Rights Concerns

Click to expand Image Rishi Sunak makes his first speech as British prime minister outside 10 Downing Street, London, October 25, 2022. © 2022 KGC-254/STAR MAX/IPx via AP Photo These are unprecedented...

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Russia Uses Facial Recognition to Hunt Down Draft Evaders

Click to expand Image Facial recognition payment gates at Smolenskaya metro station in Moscow, Russia, on August 27, 2021. © 2021 Bloomberg/Getty Images Moscow authorities are using the city’s video...

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ASEAN Ministers Hold Emergency Myanmar Meeting

Click to expand Image Immigration authorities transport Myanmar nationals before their deportation from Malaysia, February 23, 2021. © 2021 Lim Huey Teng/Reuters Southeast Asian foreign ministers are...

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Mali: Coordinated Massacres by Islamist Armed Groups

Click to expand Image United Nations police patrol Ménaka region in northeast Mali on June 13, 2021. © 2021 MINUSMA/Gema Cortes (Nairobi) – Islamist armed groups in Mali have killed hundreds of people...

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Ending US Subminimum Tipped Wages can Reduce Poverty and Inequality

Click to expand Image Francis Nwokeji, a restaurant worker from New York, speaks during a press conference calling on Congress to abolish the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers in Washington DC,...

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Racist Political Mailer Feeds Misinformation in New York

Click to expand Image A sign advertising a bail bonds business is displayed near Brooklyn's jail and courthouse complex in New York, July 2015. © 2015 Kathy Willens/AP Photo Earlier this month,...

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Central African Republic: First War Crimes Verdict Due

Click to expand Image Proceedings at the Special Criminal Court in May 2022 during its first trial. © 2022 Special Criminal Court (Nairobi) – The Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic...

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Kyrgyzstan Authorities Renew Attack on Media

Click to expand Image President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov speaks at a plenary session of parliament where new ministers are sworn in on March 9, 2022 in Bishkek. © 2022 Nazir Aliyev Tayfur/Anadolu...

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Congo’s Indigenous Rights Bill Stalls

Click to expand Image An Indigenous woman and her children walk to a market to sell pottery on Idjwi island, eastern Congo, January 2017.  © 2017 Therese Di Campo/Reuters Four months ago, the...

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Decree on Libyan Women’s Non-Citizen Children Fails Discrimination Test

Click to expand Image A woman walks with her two children at sunset near the seashore in Benghazi April 29, 2014. © 2014 Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters On October 19, the Council of Ministers of the...

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Still No Justice for 2020 Zanzibar Election Violence

Click to expand Image Residents line up to vote before the deadline in Zanzibar, Tanzania, October 28, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo Today marks two years since Tanzania’s most recent general elections, when...

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Australia’s FIFA World Cup Team First to Collectively Back Workers, LGBT Rights

Click to expand Image The Australian national soccer team, the Socceroos, pose for a photo before the start of a game in Brisbane, Australia, September 22, 2022. © 2022 Dan Peled/AP Photo Australia’s...

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Turkey Jails Another Human Rights Defender

Click to expand Image Şebnem Korur Fincancı © 2022 TİHV Şebnem Korur Fincancı is the latest human rights defender to be jailed in Turkey as authorities pursue a bogus investigation against her for...

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Brazil: President-Elect Lula Should Prioritize Human Rights

Click to expand Image Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva votes in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo state, in the presidential runoff on October 30, 2022. © 2022 Rovena Rosa/Agência...

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Bahrain: Political Isolation Laws Ban Opposition

Click to expand Image © 2022 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch (Beirut) –The Bahraini government is using its political isolation laws and a series of other tactics to keep activists and former...

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ICC: Afghanistan Inquiry Can Resume

Click to expand Image The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, November 7, 2019.  © 2019 AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File (The Hague) – The International Criminal Court...

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