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Japanese Firms to Reassess Businesses Using Xinjiang Forced Labor

Click to expand Image In this file image from undated video footage run by China's CCTV via AP Video, Muslim trainees work in a garment factory at the Hotan Vocational Education and Training Center in...

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Thailand: Activists Jailed for Criticizing Monarchy

Click to expand Image Jatupat "Pai" Boonpattararaksa plays the Isan harp at Democracy Monument during a protest against the imprisonment of four pro-democracy activists in Bangkok, Thailand on March...

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Myanmar: Urgently Investigate NLD Official’s Death in Custody

Click to expand Image Myanmar soldiers blocking the street in Yangon near the home of Khin Maung Latt on the night of his arrest, March 6, 2021.  © 2021 Private (Bangkok) – Myanmar’s junta should...

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Brazil: Support Wider Vaccine Production at WTO

Click to expand Image The Covid-19 vaccine is administered to a health professional in Sao Paulo, Brasil on January 20, 2021. © 2021 Agência Brasil / Rovena Rosa (São Paulo, March 9, 2021) - Brazil...

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DR Congo: Quash Whistleblowers’ Death Sentences

Click to expand Image Gradi Koko, right, and Navy Malela, former staff of the audit department at Afriland First Bank CD, on February 17, 2021 in Paris, France. © 2021 Cyril Marcilhacy/Bloomberg via...

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Panama: Bill Bars Same-Sex Couples from Adoption

Click to expand Image El presidente de Panamá Laurentino Cortizo ofrece su primer discurso de Informe a la Nación ante la Asamblea Nacional en la Ciudad de Panamá el 1 de julio de 2020. © 2020 AP...

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Egypt: Provide Equitable Covid-19 Vaccine Access

Click to expand Image Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed at a press conference on January 24, 2021, speaking about the government's plans for Covid-19 vaccinations. © 2021 Fadel Dawod/NurPhoto via AP...

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The Legacy of Racism in South Africa

Click to expand Image Protesters run for cover as they clash with police at Eldorado Park police station in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 27, 2020.  © 2020 AP Photo/Themba Hadebe Police brutality...

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US: Temporary Protection for Venezuelans

Click to expand Image A sign that reads "There is no water" (top L) is seen at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) hospital in Caracas, Venezuela.  © 2018 REUTERS/Marco Bello (Washington, DC) –...

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Tunisia: Harassment, Arbitrary Detention of LGBT Rights Activist

Click to expand Image Rania Amdouni, 26, at the office of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women, on October 27, 2020. © 2020 Hamza Nasri (Beirut) – A Tunisian court sentenced a prominent LGBT...

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Commission to Investigate Abuses Against Australia’s First Nations

Click to expand Image A woman holds an Indigenous Lives Matter placard during a Black Lives Matter rally on June 6, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. © 2020 Speed Media/Icon Sportswire via AP Images. This...

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Frontex Turns a Blind Eye to Greece’s Border Abuses

Click to expand Image An officer from the European Union’s border protection agency, Frontex, holds the arm of a migrant as they board a ferry in the port of Mytilini, Lesbos island, Greece, on...

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Bahrain: Police Beat, Threaten Children

Click to expand Image Sayed Hasan Ameen, 16, has serious medical complications from sickle cell anemia but Bahraini authorities denied him family visits and access to medications in detention. He is...

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Equatorial Guinea: Seek Independent Inquiry of Blast

Click to expand Image Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. ©...

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French Minister Rightly Shocked by Poland’s Anti-LGBT Zones

Click to expand Image A protester chants slogans on a megaphone during the Women's Day Manifa march in Warsaw, Poland calling for action on climate change, gender equality, access to legal abortion,...

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Uzbekistan: Draft Criminal Code Offers Little Meaningful Reform

Click to expand Image Exterior of Barak-khan Madrasah in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. © Getty Images (Berlin) – Uzbekistan should ensure that its new Criminal Code does not just tinker with some problematic...

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India: Halt All Forced Returns to Myanmar

Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees stand outside their makeshift camp on the outskirts of Jammu, India, March 7, 2021.  © AP Photo/Channi Anand (New York) – The Indian government should halt any...

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Thailand: Stop Border Pushbacks, Provide Protection

Click to expand Image A protester waving a Myanmar nation flag in front of the United Nation building during the demonstration. © 2021 Peerapon Boonyakiat / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (New York) – Thai...

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Philippines: Killings Highlight Need for International Action

Click to expand Image Protesters display slogans condemning the recent government attacks on activists during a rally near the Malacanang presidential palace on March 8, 2021 in Manila, Philippines. ©...

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Kazakhstan’s ‘First’ Women’s March

Click to expand Image International Women’s Day march in Almaty, Kazakhstan, March 8, 2021.  © 2021 Human Rights Watch By Vika KimInternational Women’s Day 2021, on Monday, was the first time...

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