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October 9, 2023 Dispatches

UN Rights Body Should Help Tackle Impunity in Sudan

Human Rights Council to Vote on Initiative to Investigate Abuses

Survivors of sexual violence, who fled the fighting in El Geneina, in Sudan’s Darfur region, outside their makeshift shelters in Adre, Chad, August 1, 2023. © 2023 REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

October 6, 2023 Dispatches

NYC Mayor Should Prioritize Human Rights over Harmful Discourse

Adams Should Understand Why People Migrate to NYC

Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Gustavo Manrique, right, shakes hands with New York City Mayor Eric Adams

October 6, 2023 Dispatches

Protect Humanity from Killer Robots

UN Chief, International Red Cross President Urge Ban on Autonomous Weapons Systems

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October 6, 2023 Dispatches

Prominent Chinese Activist Seriously Ill in Prison

Persecution of Guo Feixiong Epitomizes China’s Rights Crisis

Guo Feixiong on the Great Wall of China, July 2012.

October 6, 2023 Dispatches

Polish Government Ups Anti-Migrant Rhetoric Ahead of Elections

Xenophobic Referendum Threatens Common Values

border guards watch asylum seekers stuck behind a border wall

October 5, 2023 Dispatches

Philippine Drag Artist Arrested for ‘Offending Religion’

Charges Violate Free Expression Rights and Should Be Dropped

Amadeus Fernando Pagente, popularly known as Pura Luka Vega, a drag artist, is jailed after he was arrested in Manila on October 4, 2023, after being accused of “offending religion.”

October 5, 2023 Dispatches

Brazil´s Supreme Court A Step Closer to Decriminalizing Abortion

Chance to Finally Uphold Women’s and Pregnant People´s Rights

People take part in a march in defense of legal abortion on International Safe Abortion Day at Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on September 28, 2023.

October 5, 2023 Dispatches

Mauritian Court Finds Sodomy Law Unconstitutional, Discriminatory

Ruling Removes a Colonial-Era Relic from Statute Books

A march for the rights of LGBT people and gender equality in the town of Rose Hill, Mauritius, June 2, 2007.

October 5, 2023 Dispatches

On the Road to Abolishing Immigration Detention in Canada

Eight of Canada’s Ten Provinces Ending Federal Detention Contracts

“Amina” was detained at the border as a seven-year-old child with her parents and siblings in 2007 upon entering Canada from Afghanistan to claim refugee protection, Ottawa, Canada, 2021.

October 5, 2023 Dispatches

Olympic Committee’s Rights Commitments Tested in India

IOC Yet to Address Abuse of Indian Athletes

India's top female wrestlers and their supporters protest against Wrestling Federation of India President Brijbhushan Sharan Singh for alleged sexual abuse, New Delhi, May 23, 2023.

October 4, 2023 Dispatches

Australians with Disabilities Face Pervasive Abuse

Royal Commission Issues Highly Critical Report After 4-Year Inquiry

A prisoner with an assistive chair in Wolston Correctional Centre, Queensland.

September 29, 2023 Dispatches

Clashes in Lebanon Risk Disrupting Education for Thousands of Children

Occupation and Damage to Schools for Palestinian Refugee Kids Causing Education Delays

Palestinian residents who fled their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, carry their belongings as they board a bus to be moved from Sidon municipality to an UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) school, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, September 12, 2023.

September 29, 2023 Dispatches

No, Syria Is Still Not Safe for Refugee Returns

Cypriot Leader’s Suggestion Otherwise is Dangerous and Unrealistic

Migrants from Syria walk towards a refugee camp at Kokkinotrimithia, outside of the capital Nicosia, in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, September 10, 2017.

September 29, 2023 Dispatches

Time to Ban Facial Recognition from Public Spaces and Borders

Rights Groups Sound the Alarm on Mass Surveillance Technology

Pedestrians walk across a crossroad as a big electronic screen supported by face-recognition system shows the image of a jaywalker at the intersection in Nanjing city, east China's Jiangsu province, July 4, 2019.

September 29, 2023 Dispatches

Beijing’s Increasingly Desperate Attempts to Squelch UN Criticism

UN Member Countries Should Vote Not to Return China to Human Rights Council

China's then-Minister for Foreign Affairs Qin Gang delivers a remote statement during the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, February 27, 2023.

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