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November 29, 2024 Dispatches

Iranian Authorities Allegedly Sexually Assaulted Journalist

Iranian Authorities Should Release Imprisoned Vida Rabbani Immediately

November 28, 2024 Dispatches

Australia Passes Harsh New Anti-Migration Laws

New Legislation an Attack on Refugee and Migrant Rights

Activists gather in Brisbane's ANZAC Square to protest the indefinite detention of refugees and asylum seekers in Australian-run and funded facilities on the mainland and on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, January 19, 2022.

November 28, 2024 Dispatches

Zimbabwe Opposition Activists Freed After Five Months

But Politically Motivated Criminal Convictions Remain

Activists with the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change party arrive at the Magistrates' courts in Harare, Zimbabwe, June 19, 2024.

November 27, 2024 Dispatches

Indonesian Domestic Workers’ Long Wait for Reform

President Prabowo Should Seek Passage of Domestic Workers’ Protection Bill

Activists during a protest and hunger strike demanding that parliament to pass a bill to protect domestic workers, at the parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 14, 2023.

November 26, 2024 Dispatches

UN Report Portrays Afghanistan’s Destroyed Media

Taliban Threaten, Detain and Abuse Journalists, Media Workers

The Taliban flag flies over a National Radio Television of Takhar (RTA) building in Talogan, Afghanistan, on October 15, 2024.

November 26, 2024 Dispatches

EU Should Reaffirm Support for ICC Arrests

Use Existing Policies to Ensure Effective Strategies for Executing Arrests

European Union flags wave in the wind as pedestrians walk by EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023.

November 25, 2024 Dispatches

This #16Days, Remember Afghan Women and Girls

Enduring Taliban Abuses, Forgotten Globally, But Still Resisting

An Afghan woman weaves a carpet at a factory on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, November 11, 2024.

November 25, 2024 Dispatches

Lack of Progress at COP29 Puts Rights at Risk

Governments Should Deliver Ambitious Climate Action Plans, Ensure Fossil Fuel Phaseout

The COP29 U.N. Climate Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 9, 2024.

November 25, 2024 Dispatches

UN: Russia Vetoes Sudan Resolution Despite Global Support

Concerted Council Action on Civilian Protection Key

Displaced people gather to receive free breakfast meals at a neighborhood in Omdurman city, Sudan, August 1, 2024.

November 25, 2024 Dispatches

Confronting South Africa’s Crisis of Gender-Based Violence

Government Needs to Intensify Efforts to End the Violence

Protesters march against gender-based violence in front of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, South Africa, September 13, 2019.

November 21, 2024 Dispatches

UN Review of DR Congo Exposes Lack of Progress on Rights

Address Constraints on Rights, Civilian Protection in Conflict Areas, Accountability

People displaced by fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels at a camp on the outskirts of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, March 13, 2024.

November 21, 2024 Dispatches

Ugandan Military Court to Try Opposition Leader

Authorities Should End Military Prosecutions of Civilians

Ugandan opposition leader and four-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye, stands in the dock at the Makindye Martial Court in Kampala, Uganda, November 20. 2024.

November 20, 2024 Dispatches

Turkmenistan Forcibly Hospitalizes Human Rights Defender

Authorities Detain Soltan Achilova to Prevent Her from Traveling Abroad

Human rights defender Soltan Achilova, forcibly held in an infectious disease hospital in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. November 20, 2024.

November 20, 2024 Dispatches

Concerns Grow for Health of Detained Chinese Lawyer

Xu Zhiyong Endures Inhumane Treatment While Serving Unjust Sentence

Human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong in Beijing, China.

November 20, 2024 Dispatches

Trans Day of Remembrance Marked with Grim Murder Data

More Than 5000 Killed in Past 16 Years due to Lack of Legal Protections

People carry the names of murdered transgendered women as dozens of transgender women and allies gather to commemorate murdered members of their community on Transgender Day of Remembrance in Mexico City.

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