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November 20, 2024 Dispatches

Study Finds Third of UK Children Living in Poverty

Ending Two-Child Limit Crucial to Protect Rights

Children play in a park on a housing estate in Redcar, Teesside, May 17, 2023.

November 20, 2024 Dispatches

Colombia Charges Former FARC Leaders with Child Recruitment

Transitional Justice Chamber Finds Torture, Killings, Sexual and Anti-LGBT Violence

Relatives of victims of extrajudicial executions and magistrates are pictured during a hearing of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Cali, Colombia on June 5, 2023.

November 20, 2024 Dispatches

Uzbekistan Targets 'Undesirable' Foreigners and Stateless Persons

Ignoring Objections, President Signs New Law Threatening Freedom of Expression

Chorsu Bazaar in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, July 26, 2023.

November 19, 2024 Dispatches

EU Adopts New Regulation to Curtail Forced Labor

Enforcement Vital to Tackling Forced Labor Globally

Workers carry bags as they harvest cotton in a field in Hami in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, September 21, 2016.

November 19, 2024 Dispatches

The NBA Risks ‘Sportswashing’ UAE Violations

Emirates NBA Cup Part of Reputation Laundering Strategy

November 19, 2024 Dispatches

Authorities Fail to Address Ethnic Violence in India’s Manipur State

Armed Groups Targeting Civilians in Reprisal Attacks

People run past burning vehicles of India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during a protest to condemn the alleged killing of women and children in Imphal, capital of India's northeastern state of Manipur, November 16, 2024.

November 19, 2024 Dispatches

A Thousand Days of War in Ukraine

Civilians Need Greater Protection, Justice for Russia’s War Crimes

Firefighters extinguish a fire after a Russian attack on a neighborhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine, February 10, 2024.

November 18, 2024 Dispatches

Prominent Russian Rights Defender Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison

Criminal Prosecution, Draconian Ruling against Exiled Critic

Tanya Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch, with Sergey Lukashevsky, director of Moscow's Sakharov Center, at the Andrei Sakharov Anniversary Conference.

November 14, 2024 Dispatches

US Jury Awards $42 Million to 3 Iraqis Abused at Abu Ghraib Prison

Still No Accountability for US Military Abuses During ‘Global War on Terror’

A detainee in an outdoor solitary confinement cell talks with a military police officer at the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, June 22, 2004.

November 13, 2024 Dispatches

Libyan Minister’s ‘Morality’ Measures Would Violate Women’s Rights

Government Should Forcefully Disavow Regressive Proposals

Emad Trabelsi (2nd-L), acting interior minister in the Libyan Government of National Unity, holds a press conference in Tripoli, August 23, 2024.

November 12, 2024 Dispatches

What Can the Lebanese Government Do to Stop War Crimes?

Lebanon Should Ensure Documentation of Rights Abuses, Push for Accountability

Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, November 12, 2024.

November 11, 2024 Dispatches

Germany’s Muddle on Antisemitism

New Parliamentary Resolution Threatens Human Rights

Lawmakers in the German Bundestag (Lower House of Parliament) in Berlin, Germany on November 7, 2024.

November 11, 2024 Dispatches

Burkina Faso Plans to Reinstate Death Penalty

Restoring Cruel, Irreversible Punishment a Huge Step Back for Rights

Burkina Faso's president, Capt. Ibrahim Traore (center), in an armored vehicle in Ouagadougou, October 2, 2022.

November 10, 2024 Dispatches

Chinese Provincial Governments Turn to Extortion

Without Rule of Law, Private Businesses and Entrepreneurs Are Never Safe

Police officers patrol outside the China National Convention Center in Beijing, May 13, 2017. (

November 8, 2024 Dispatches

Mozambique Police Brutally Repress Election Protesters

Investigate Security Forces’ Use of Tear Gas, Gunfire

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