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Indian Government Moves to Remedy Its Violation of Children’s Privacy

Click to expand Image Children studies online using borrowed mobile phones in Mumbai, India, during school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic. October 16, 2020.  © 2020 Ashish Vaishnav/Sipa via AP...

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New Frontex Director Offers Chance for Reform

Click to expand Image New Executive Director of the European Border and Coast Guard (FRONTEX) Hans Leijtens attends a press conference at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on January 19, 2023....

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Insulin Manufacturer to Finally Lower Prices in the US

Click to expand Image Eli Lilly insulin, Humalog, September 13, 2019.  © 2019 Simon Dawson/Reuters Following years of pressure, United States-based drug manufacturer Eli Lilly and Company announced...

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Unprotected by Labor Law, Child Farmworkers Risk Health and Lives

Click to expand Image A 15-year-old girl works on a tobacco farm in North Carolina. © 2013 Human Rights Watch A devastating new investigation by the New York Times found migrant children across the...

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Georgia: Reconsider Mikheil Saakashvili’s Release on Medical Grounds

Click to expand Image Georgia's jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili seen via video link from a clinic during a court hearing to consider his request to defer his six-year sentence for health...

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Cluster Munitions: Nigeria Ratifies Global Ban

Click to expand Image The remnants of a 9M27K-series cluster munition rocket after it deployed its submunitions in the Maram camp for the displaced near the village of Kafr Jales in the Idlib...

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Angola: Hundreds Homeless in Forced Evictions, Demolitions

Click to expand Image A woman carries her child after their house was demolished in Zango 3 area of Luanda, Angola. © 2023 Private (Johannesburg) – The Angolan authorities should immediately suspend...

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DR Congo/France: Prioritize Rights Issues for Macron’s Visit

Click to expand Image French President Emmanuel Macron and Congo's President Félix Tshisekedi at the Élysée presidential palace in Paris, November 12, 2019. © 2019 Christian Liewig/Abaca/Sipa USA via...

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UN Describes Worsening Afghanistan Rights Crisis

Click to expand Image A woman at the site of a suicide attack on an education center claimed by a group affiliated with the Islamic State, in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 1, 2022. © 2022 Ebrahim...

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Iranian Media Reports Hundreds of Schoolgirls Poisoned

Click to expand Image Students attend class in Tehran, Iran, November 22, 2021. © 2021 Sobhan Farajvan/Pacific Press/Shutterstock Iran’s reformist Etemad news agency reported on March 1 that over the...

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New York Taxpayers Foot Bill for Abusive Police

Click to expand Image New York City police detain a legal observer during a peaceful protest in Mott Haven on June 4, 2020. © 2020 C.S. Muncy In an agreement made public yesterday, New York City will...

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Cambodia: Opposition Leader Convicted on Bogus Charges

Click to expand Image Cambodia’s opposition leader Kem Sokha talks to the media at his home before leaving for a court hearing in Phnom Penh, January 16, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (Bangkok) –...

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Killing of Indigenous Leader in Ecuador Demands Thorough Investigation

Click to expand Image Eduardo Mendúa Facebook: Eduardo Mendúa Eduardo Mendúa, an A’i Cofán Indigenous leader, was shot dead on February 26 outside his home in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Mendúa was an...

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Digital Dehumanization Paves Way for Killer Robots

Last month, members of the Stop Killer Robots campaign met in Costa Rica with 68 campaigners from 29 countries for their first in-person global conference since the Covid-19 pandemic. A central theme...

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Human Rights Watch Mourns Loss of Judy Heumann

(New York) – Human Rights Watch mourns the passing of the pioneering disability rights activist Judy Heumann, a dear friend and board member. Heumann’s lifelong activism supporting the rights of people...

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Nicaragua: UN Rights Council Should Renew Experts’ Mandate

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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Inquest Highlights Abuses in Canada’s Immigration Detention

Click to expand Image Central East Correctional Centre in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, February 10, 2021.  © 2021 Kawartha 411 A coroner’s inquest into the 2015 death of Abdurahman Hassan, a refugee from...

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Use Global Meeting to Highlight Bahrain’s Abuses

(Beirut) – Members of parliament from around the world attending this year’s Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Bahrain should use the assembly to raise concerns about the serious repression of human...

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Uganda’s Parliament Threatens to Criminalize Homosexuality

Click to expand Image Ugandan activists attend a conference to promote homosexuals’ rights, in Kampala, Uganda, February 14, 2010. © 2010 Benedicte Desrus/Sipa Press via AP Images Once again, Ugandan...

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Aluminum’s Amazon Footprint

Click to expand Image Ship refuels near a bauxite mine in Para state, Brazil, September 16, 2022.  © 2022 Jonne Roriz/Bloomberg via Getty Images Ford’s F-150 Lightning, the electric version of...

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