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Greece: Migrant Camp Lead Contamination

Click to expand Image A child plays next to an earth digger moving soil on Mavrovouni hill on January 25, 2021.  © 2021 DunyaCollective The Greek government should release test results and other vital...

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ICC to Rule on Lord’s Resistance Army Leader

Click to expand Image Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army, waits for the judge to arrive as he made his first appearance at the International Criminal Court in The Hague,...

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France: End Systemic Police Discrimination

Click to expand Image Police perform a stop during the Covid-19 lockdown in Nice, France, April 8, 2020 © 2020 Eric Gaillard/Reuters (Paris) – Police in France engage in longstanding and widespread...

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New York City Should Support Street Vending for a More Just Recovery

Click to expand Image Street vendors and supporters march across Brooklyn Bridge during a rally in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, November 12, 2020. © 2020 Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty...

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US: Newly Released Files Show Fast-Track to Deportation

Click to expand Image Migrants seeking asylum wait in line with their case paperwork to meet with an attorney on Oct. 5, 2019, during a weekly trip by volunteers, lawyers, paralegals and interpreters...

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Time to Stop Ethnic Profiling in France

Click to expand Image Police perform a stop during the Covid-19 lockdown in Nice, France, April 8, 2020 © 2020 Eric Gaillard/Reuters Yesterday in Paris, a bailiff delivered a 145-page letter putting...

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DR Congo: Repression Escalates

Click to expand Image Police arrest protesters in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, during demonstrations opposing the newly appointed president of the electoral commission, July 8, 2020. ©...

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Lebanon: Gaps Remain in Vaccine Program Planning

Click to expand Image Red Cross volunteers waiting with a coronavirus patient for a place in the intensive care unit of Rafic Hariri University Hospital, Beirut, January 11, 2021. © 2021 Marwan...

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Brazil: Crackdown on Critics of Covid-19 Response

Click to expand Image Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, without a mask, attends a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Brasilia, along with ministers and other authorities, most of whom are wearing...

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Kazakhstan: Independent Union Under Threat of Suspension

Click to expand Image Kuspan Kosshygulov (center) is one of the workers at an oil construction company who went on a hunger strike demanding that Kazakhstan not liquidate the independent confederation...

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Mexico: Public Accountability, Privacy Under Threat

Click to expand Image A police officer walks outside the offices of the National Institute for Transparency and Access to Information and Data Protection (INAI) in Mexico City, Mexico. © 2016 Archivo...

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Proposed Pakistan Law Seeks Greater Control of Media

Click to expand Image Pakistani journalists hold nationwide protests to denounce rampant censorship, and hold a banner that reads: "black day," in Karachi, Pakistan, July 16, 2019. © 2019 AP...

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China Signals Roll-Back on Minority Languages

Click to expand Image Poster issued by China in primary schools in Tibet. Translation: “Love the national flag, Sing the national anthem Mandarin is the working language in schools Please speak the...

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77 Lashes for a Gay Couple in Indonesia

Click to expand Image A Shariah law official uses a rattan cane to whip one of two men convicted of gay sex in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, January 28, 2021.  © 2021 AP Photo/Riska Munawarah...

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US: Biden Acts to Undo Trump Damage to Women’s Health

Click to expand Image A woman walks past a mural on a Family Health Options clinic in the Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya, May 16, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (Washington, DC) – United States President Joe...

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Sri Lanka: UN Rights Chief Decries Mounting Abuses

Click to expand Image UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, September 4, 2019. © 2019 Salvatore...

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US Defense Contractor Distances Itself from Cluster Munitions

Click to expand Image A failed BLU-108 canister, with two submunitions still attached, that was delivered by a CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapon during an attack on the quarry of the Amran Cement Factory,...

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A Glimmer of Hope for South Sudan’s Victims

Click to expand Image Women stand outside a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) site in Yei, in southern South Sudan. The formerly peaceful town of Yei was once a beacon of coexistence, but Yei is now a center...

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Russia: Police Double Down on Detaining Protesters

Click to expand Image A policeman detains a man while protesters try to help him, during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Jan. 31,...

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UN: Countries Call Out Rwanda’s Rights Record

Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019...

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