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UAE Conference Attendees Warned against Criticizing Government

Click to expand Image Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, January 3, 2019. © 2019 Hamad Mohammed/Reuters Speakers at a recent climate and health summit in Abu Dhabi were advised by the conference...

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Thailand: Upcoming Election Fundamentally Flawed

Click to expand Image Ethnic minority women make three-finger salutes during pro-democracy demonstration in Chiang Mai, Thailand, February 2023. © 2023 Pongmanat Tasiri / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (New...

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Investigation Launches into Forcible Transfer of Children in Ukraine

Click to expand Image The overgrown playground of a residential institution for children in Kherson, Ukraine, where Russian forces allegedly took 46 children from, as seen on November 27, 2022. © 2022...

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African Human Rights Commission Affirms Intersex People’s Rights

Click to expand Image The 73rd session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, Gambia. © 2022 Francisco Perez The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has...

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Ukraine’s New Health Rules Spotlight Barriers to Emergency Contraception

Click to expand Image A customer walks out of a drugstore lit by a portable generator during a blackout in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv following massive Russian airstrikes on January 14, 2023....

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Weak UN Resolution on Libya Exposes EU Bias

Click to expand Image Migrants who were intercepted by Libyan authorities on a boat off the coast are held ahead of their transfer to a detention centre in Surman, Libya on May 12, 2022. © 2022 Mahmud...

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France Moves to Shut Down Environmental Group

Click to expand Image Mobile riot gendarmes policing a protest against the construction of a new water reserve for agricultural irrigation in Sainte-Soline, France on March 25, 2023.  © 2023 Ugo...

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Sri Lanka: Reject New Counterterrorism Bill

Click to expand Image Sri Lankan rights activists protest against the Prevention of Terrorism Act outside the United Nations office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 3, 2022.  © 2022 Eranga Jayawardena/AP...

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Expulsion of Tennessee Lawmakers Jeopardizes Democracy

Click to expand Image Former Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, and former Rep. Justin Pearson, D-Memphis, raise their hands outside the House chamber after Jones and...

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20 Years After Deadly Attack, Free Press Still Threatened in Iraq

Click to expand Image A memorial poster for Jose Couso, a Spanish television cameraman killed by a U.S. tank shell which hit Baghdad's Palestine hotel, on a barricade outside the building, April 8,...

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China: Quash Convictions of Prominent Rights Lawyers

Click to expand Image Left: Sophie Luo Shengchun, the wife of jailed Chinese human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi, poses with a photo of him at her home in New York, US, July 28, 2022. Right: Chinese legal...

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In Conflicting Decisions, Two US Judges Rule on Access to Safe Abortion Drug

Click to expand Image Boxes of mifepristone, the first pill given in a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at a Women's Reproductive Clinic in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, US, January 13, 2023. ©...

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Tunisia: Free Arbitrarily Detained Ex-Prime Minister

Click to expand Image Then-prime minister of Tunisia, Ali Laarayedh, delivers a speech during a news conference in Tunis, February 22, 2013. © 2013 AP Photo/Hassene Dridi (Tunis) – Tunisian...

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Vietnam: Free Prominent Activist Blogger

Click to expand Image Vietnamese activist and blogger Nguyễn Lân Thắng. © 2012 Nguyễn Lân Thắng (Bangkok) – The Vietnamese authorities should immediately drop all charges and release the well-known...

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Pakistan: Farmers Forcibly Evicted for Urban Project

Click to expand Image A farmer herds sheep through farmland in the vicinity of the Ravi River project, in Lahore, Pakistan, December 8, 2021.  © 2021 Betsy Joles/Bloomberg via Getty Images (New York,...

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Malaysia Repeals Mandatory Death Penalty

Click to expand Image An activist during a protest against the death penalty in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 23, 2022.  © 2022 Vincent Thian/AP Images (Bangkok) – Malaysia’s abolition of the...

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Brazil: Recognize Indigenous Land Rights

Click to expand Image Indigenous people call for greater protection of their land and rights at the Acampamento Terra Livre (Free Land Camp) in Brasilia, an annual protest held by Indigenous peoples...

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UAE: Detainees Held Beyond Sentences

Click to expand Image Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, January 3, 2019. © 2019 Hamad Mohammed/Reuters (Beirut) – United Arab Emirates authorities are continuing to incarcerate at least 51 Emirati...

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US Secretary of State Should Press Vietnam on Rights during Visit

Click to expand Image US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Washington, DC, US, on May 13, 2022.  © 2022 Jose Luis Magana/AP Images United...

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Opposition Figure Convicted in Kazakhstan

Click to expand Image Zhanbolat Mamay, center, sits with his lawyers during a trial hearing in November 2022 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. © 2022 Private On April 10, a court in Almaty, Kazakhstan convicted...

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