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Afghanistan: UN Should Ensure Women’s Full Role in Talks

Click to expand Image UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on June 14, 2017. © 2017 KYDPL KYODO (New York) – Women should have full participation in...

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Counterterrorism Police ‘Clean Up’ After Tibetan Monk’s Death

Following the January 19 death in police custody of a teenage Tibetan monk, Chinese authorities have commenced an operation to “clean up” Tibetan homes in the grassland town of Dza Wonpo, Sichuan...

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New Laws Further Stifle Freedom of Speech in Belarus

Click to expand Image Belarusian journalist Katsiaryna Barysevich, right, and Dr. Artsiom Sorokin attend a court hearing in Minsk, Belarus, 19 February, 2021. © 2021 Ramil Nasibulin/BelTA pool photo...

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Syria: Government Stealing Opponents’ Land

Click to expand Image Syrian farmers harvest olives in Idlib, Syria on November 21, 2020. Despite the negative effects of fertilization, tree pruning and transportation costs as well as the increase...

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Chad: Pre-Election Crackdown on Opponents

Click to expand Image People in the streets of N'Djamena, Chad’s capital, protest against President Idriss Déby Itno running for a sixth term in the April 11, 2021 election. © Private, March 27, 2021,...

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Minimize Civilian Harm in Eastern Ukraine Conflict

Click to expand Image A Ukrainian soldier watches guard with a machine gun in his shelter near the front-line town of Krasnohorivka, eastern Ukraine, March 5, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka,...

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UN Chief Should Support Remote Investigation in Xinjiang

Click to expand Image A guard tower and barbed wire fences are seen around a facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux, western China's Xinjiang region, December 3, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Ng Han...

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US: End Misguided Public Health Border Expulsions

Click to expand Image An asylum seeking family from Guatemala stands on the Paso del Norte international bridge. After border agents turned the family away at the port of entry, the family swam across...

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Another Woman Killed in Scourge of Kyrgyzstan ‘Bride Kidnappings’

Click to expand Image People attend a rally for the protection of women's rights in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, protesting the kidnapping and killing of Aizada Kanatbekova, April 8, 2021. The banner reads,...

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US: Congress Advances Slavery Reparations Bill

Click to expand Image A sculpture of African slaves by Ghanaian artist, Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, at the beginning of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. © Dreisen Heath/Human...

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Brazil: Remove Miners from Indigenous Amazon Territory

Click to expand Image Building that houses the Munduruku Wakoborun Women’s Association in the Jacareacanga municipality, state of Pará, damaged on March, 25, 2021. © Archive MPF/PA. (São Paulo, April...

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Victims of Sudan Crackdown on Protests Await Justice

Click to expand Image Sudanese celebrate after officials said the military had forced longtime autocratic President Omar al-Bashir to step down after 30 years in power in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday,...

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North Korea’s Leader Warns of Famine

Click to expand Image North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a closing speech at the Sixth Conference of Cell Secretaries of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea, April 8, 2021.  ©...

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Closing Camps Won’t Solve Kenya’s Refugee Problem

Click to expand Image An aerial picture shows a section of the Hagadera camp in Dadaab near the Kenya-Somalia border, May 8, 2015. © 2015 Reuters The Kenyan government has again issued an ultimatum to...

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Bring Ukrainian Women, Children Home from Syria

Click to expand Image A boy flies a homemade kite in the foreigners’ section of al-Hol camp in northeast Syria on March 15, 2021.  © 2021 Sam Tarling (Berlin) – Regional authorities in northeast Syria...

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Chechen Asylum Seeker Deported to Russia Arbitrarily Detained

Magomed Gadaev, 37, an asylum seeker from Chechnya and key witness in a high-profile torture case against Chechnya’s leadership, was abducted by Chechen security officials on April 11, two days after...

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Cameroon: Wave of Arrests, Abuse Against LGBT People

Click to expand Image Njeuken Loic (known as “Shakiro”) and Mouthe Roland (known as “Patricia”), two transgender women, in a Douala prison. © Private, Douala, Cameroon, March 2021 (Nairobi) –...

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Mexico: Online Free Speech at Risk

Click to expand Image In this Dec. 18, 2020 file photo, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gives his daily morning news conference at the presidential palace in Mexico City. On January 14,...

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Australia: Act on Indigenous Deaths in Custody

Click to expand Image Jacinta Miller holds a painting by her brother Stanley, a 19-year-old Noongar man with a mental health condition, who is suspected to have taken his own life in Acacia Prison,...

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Pakistan’s ‘Father’ of Human Rights Passes Away

Click to expand Image I.A. Rehman, center, addresses a news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, July 16, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File Many years ago, I.A. Rehman said to my young,...

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