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Global Momentum Builds Toward Free Education for All Children

Click to expand Image A young girl in her pre-primary class in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In 2022, Uzbekistan hosted the World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education.  © 2023 Bede Sheppard /...

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Opposition Leader in Court in Central African Republic

Click to expand Image Crepin Mboli Goumba (right) with his defense team after he is provisionally released from the Central Office for the Repression of Banditry (OCRB) in Bangui, Central African...

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US Truth and Healing Commission on Indigenous Boarding Schools is Long Overdue

Click to expand Image A makeshift memorial for the dozens of Indigenous children who died more than a century ago while attending a boarding school that was once located nearby at a public park in...

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Armed Groups Kidnap Hundreds Across Northern Nigeria

Click to expand Image Children play at the LEA Primary and Secondary School Kuriga two days after 287 students were kidnapped, Kuriga, Kaduna State, Nigeria, March 9, 2024.  © 2024 Sunday Alamba/AP...

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Reject Saudi Bid to Chair UN Women’s Rights Forum

Click to expand Image People walk past a Vision 2030 banner showing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Jeddah.  © 2019 AP Photo/Amr Nabil  United Nations member countries should abandon an...

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ICC Reporting Key to Catalyze National Justice

Click to expand Image Exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. © 2021 AP Photo/Peter Dejong The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a court of last resort,...

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Israeli Assurances to Use US Arms Legally Are Not Credible

Click to expand Image Airbursts of artillery-fired white phosphorus fall over the Gaza city port, October 11, 2023.  © 2023 Mohammed Adeb/AFP via Getty Images (Washington, DC, March 19, 2024) – The...

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Two Indigenous Boys in Australia Die Following Youth Detention

Click to expand Image  Barbed wire fence in Australia, February 10, 2023. © 2023 SCM Jeans/Getty Images Last week, the Australian state of Queensland released a report on the deaths of two boys who...

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Sri Lankan Authorities Detain Hindu Worshippers

Click to expand Image  A Hindu worshipper celebrating the festival of Shivaratri in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, on March 8, 2024.  © 2024 Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto via AP Photo Eight Tamil...

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US: Supreme Court Opens Door to Chaos, Abuse in Texas

Click to expand Image People hold a banner during a protest against Operation Lone Star after members of the Texas National Guard shot and wounded a 22-year-old near the Bridge of the Americas in El...

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Japan Lawmakers Seek Probe of Carmaker Links to Xinjiang Abuses

Click to expand Image A large screen shows Chinese President Xi Jinping near a carpark in Kashgar, in western China's Xinjiang region, December 3, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Ng Han Guan A group of Japanese...

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Hong Kong: New Security Law Full-Scale Assault on Rights

Click to expand Image A screen displays the vote count after the third reading of the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance  at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, March 19, 2024. © 2024 AP...

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UN Rights Council: Renew Iran Mandates

Click to expand Image Delegates attend the opening day of the 50th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, in Geneva, June 13, 2022. © 2022 Keystone/Valentin Flauraud (Geneva) – The United...

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Prominent Congolese Journalist Convicted on Baseless Charges

Click to expand Image Stanis Bujakera in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 2023. © 2023 Actualite.cd This week, a court in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, convicted the prominent...

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Seychelles: Rights Concerns in High-Profile Case

Click to expand Image The Supreme Court of Justice, in the island of Mahe, Seychelles, August 16, 2023. ©Eduardo Soteras for The Washington Post via Getty Images. (Johannesburg) – The authorities in...

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Canada: All 10 Provinces To End Immigration Detention in Jails

Click to expand Image © 2024 Human Rights Watch (Ottawa) – All 10 of Canada's provinces have now committed to ending their immigration detention agreements and arrangements with the Canada Border...

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Cameroon: Government Bans Opposition Coalitions

Click to expand Image Demonstrators stopped by gendarmes and police in Bafang, West Cameroon, on September 22, 2020. © 2020 Private (Nairobi) – A declaration by Cameroon’s territorial administration...

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Ugandan Appeals Court Shutters LGBT Rights Group

Click to expand Image Pepe Onziema (L), Frank Mugisha (C),  from SMUG and UNAIDS representative Tseday Alemseged before the hearing of the petition challenging the Anti Homosexuality Act,...

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Drone Attack Collapses Odesa Residential Building

Click to expand Image An apartment building heavily damaged during a Russian drone strike in Odesa, Ukraine March 2, 2024.  © 2024 Stringer/Reuters On March 2, Andriy Sidak raced to his sister’s...

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New Bill Would Protect Child Farmworkers in the US

Click to expand Image A 15-year-old girl works on a tobacco farm in North Carolina. July 2013. © 2013 Human Rights Watch A bill introduced today in the US Senate would strengthen protections for...

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