Nepal Falters on Justice Pledge for Conflict Abuses
The horrors of Nepal’s ten-year insurgency weigh greatly on the country, with a heavy toll of killings, rapes, disappearances, and
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Human Right Violations
Lawmakers in the US Unleash Barrage of Anti-Transgender Bills
LGBT Rainbow Flag © 2008 Ludovic Berton (Wikimedia Commons) Protecting children’s health is critical, and that means allowing doctors and
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Peru: Many With Disability Left Off Voting Lists
Actors with down syndrome represent Hamlet in a theater in Lima in December 2019. © 2019 Samer Muscati (Lima, Peru)
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Britain Cannot Turn Its Back on Lone Children Now
A statue dedicated to the ‘Children of the Kindertransport’ outside Liverpool Street Station in London. It expresses “gratitude to the
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Qatar: End of Abusive Exit Permits for Most Migrant Workers
(Beirut)—Qatar announced on January 16, 2020 that most migrant workers previously prevented from leaving the country without their employer’s permission,
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Hong Kong: Improve Privacy Ordinance Rights Protections
Residents use their phones during a protest in Hong Kong, November 11, 2019. © 2019 Sipa via AP Images (New
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Cambodia: Drop Charges Against 2 Journalists
Former RFA reporters Uon Chhin and Yeang Sothearin speak to the media outside of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, Aug.
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Russia: Persecution of ‘Undesirable’ Activists
Activists in support of Shevchenko in Kazan, Russia. © 2020 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Moscow) – A Russian court has
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India Failing on Kashmiri Human Rights
An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard as snow falls in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, January 15, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Dar
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Libya: ‘Dire and untenable’ situation for tens of thousands of children in unrelenting conflict
“Children in Libya, including refugee and migrant children, continue to suffer grievously amidst the violence and chaos unleashed by the
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Bhutan on Brink of Overturning Same-Sex Conduct Ban
A bill that would repeal parts of Bhutan’s penal code that criminalize same-sex conduct will be introduced in the upper
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US Citizen Dies in Egyptian Prison
Mustafa Kassem. © 2020 Private The death this week of Mustafa Kassem, an Egyptian-American imprisoned in Egypt after an unfair
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Lebanon: Police Violence Against Protesters
(Beirut) – Lebanon’s riot police beat and violently arrested largely peaceful protesters and media workers during demonstrations on January 15,
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Morocco: 3 Years in Abusive Solitary Detention
(Tunis) – A man sentenced to life in prison in one of Morocco’s best-known trials for supposedly plotting terrorism, has
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US Government Challenges Apple on Encryption (Again)
Attorney General William Barr speaks during a tour of a federal prison in Edgefield, South Carolina, July 8, 2019. © 2019 AP
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