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US: Texas Targeting Migrants

Click to expand Image Texas Governor Greg Abbott talks about Operation Lone Star during a press conference at the Texas Department of Public Safety Weslaco Regional Office on April 1, 2021, in...

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Olympics: Don’t Promote Chinese State Propaganda

Click to expand Image Peng Shuai waves at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia on January 15, 2019.  © AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File (New York) – The International...

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Sudan: Security Forces Use Lethal Force on Protesters

Click to expand Image Protestors clash with police in Khartoum, Sudan during a protest against the October military takeover of the transitional government, November 17, 2021 © 2021 AP Photo/Marwan...

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Bangladesh: Halt Forced Relocation of Rohingya Refugees

Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees board a ship while being moved to Bhasan Char, Bangladesh, December 29, 2020. © 2020 Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto via AP (New York) – Bangladesh authorities...

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Documents Claim France Abets Deadly Egyptian Air Strikes

Click to expand Image French President Emmanuel Macron, left, greets Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi before a conference with several world leaders in Paris, November 12, 2021.  © 2021 AP...

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Belarus/Poland: Abuse, Pushbacks At Border

Click to expand Image Two women and a child huddle in sleeping bags on the forest floor after crossing the Polish-Belarusian border near Michalowo on October 6, 2021. © 2021 Maciej...

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South Africa: Broken Promises to Aid Gender-Based Violence Survivors

Click to expand Image General view during the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) protest march organized by the Office of The Premier in collaboration with Phepha Foundation on April 26, 2021 in Durban,...

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Central African Republic: Minister Faces Atrocity Charges

Click to expand Image Hassan Bouba Ali (R) with Ali Darassa (C) surrounded by other UPC leaders, during a meeting at their headquarters in Alindao, October 2017. © 2017 Alexis Huguet (Nairobi) – The...

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LGBT Qataris Call Foul Ahead of 2022 World Cup

Click to expand Image A general view of the Al Thumama Stadium is seen in Doha, Qatar, October 22, 2021. The stadium will be one of the venues for the 2022 World Cup. © 2021 AP Photo/Hussein Sayed As...

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Biden Administration Confronts US Anti-Trans Violence

Click to expand Image Celebrating the life of Marsha P. Johnson on what would have been her 75th Birthday, members of the LGBTQI+ community and their allies assembled in Washington Square Park in New...

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Yemen: Houthi Forces Attack, Displace Villagers

Click to expand Image A truck searches for victims under the rubble. The house was destroyed by a Houthi missile in Al-Amoud in al-Jubah district, Marib governorate pictured on October 29, 2021. ©...

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Morocco: Journalist in Prison After Unfair Trial

Click to expand Image Supporters of Omar Radi in front of the Casablanca Courthouse, Morocco, September 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar (New York) – Omar Radi, an investigative journalist in...

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Belarus’s Political Crackdown Affects Everyday Life

Click to expand Image View of the Catholic Church in Hrodna, Belarus.  © Tanya Lokshina/Human Rights Watch This October, my colleague and I spent a few days in Hrodna, Belarus’s fifth largest city and...

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Boy Tied and Abused for Years in Finnish Care Home

Tied to a bed at night, forced to wear a makeshift straitjacket, strapped to a chair with insulation tape and cargo straps for several hours a day. This, for many years, was the daily reality for Noah...

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European Court Rules to Reunite Chechen Woman with Her Children

Click to expand Image Screenshot from an animation by Justice Initiative Project on “the custom of taking children away from mothers in Chechnya and Ingushetia.”  © Justice Initiative Project This...

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EU Waste Shipment Proposal Takes Steps to Address Plastic Crisis

Click to expand Image Plastic waste among other items at an illegal garbage dump near Alibeykoy Dam on the outskirts of Istanbul, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Mucahit Yapici Last week, the...

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India: Kashmiri Activist Held Under Abusive Law

Click to expand Image Khurram Parvez, a prominent human rights activist, left, in the office of the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society in Srinagar, India, August 25, 2020. © AP Photo/Dar...

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Tragedy in English Channel Should Be Turning Point in Border Standoff

Click to expand Image A group of people thought to be migrants crossing the Channel in a small boat headed in the direction of Dover, Kent, United Kingdom, August 10, 2020. © 2020 Gareth Fuller/Press...

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Central African Republic: Detain War Crimes Suspect Now

Click to expand Image Hassan Bouba Ali (R) with Ali Darassa (C) surrounded by other UPC leaders, during a meeting at their headquarters in Alindao, October 2017. © 2017 Alexis Huguet (Nairobi) – The...

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Radicals Target Roma People in Ukraine

Click to expand Image Members of the C14 far right group, some of them wearing balaclavas, march toward an Russian orthodox church in Kiev, Ukraine. (File photo, April 20, 2018) © AP Photo/Felipe Dana...

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