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Ethiopian Authorities Suspend Independent Newspaper
Click to expand Image A man reads the Ethiopian Reporter in Addis Ababa on December 11, 2019. © 2019 Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images In what has become the new normal, the Ethiopian government has silenced yet another independent media outlet. The Ethiopian Media Authority…
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World Court Set to Rule in Myanmar Genocide Case
Click to expand Image People watch the ICJ hearing at a restaurant in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on January 23, 2020. © 2020 Allison Joyce/Getty Images (The Hague) – The International Court of Justice has announced that it will deliver its judgment on…
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Türkiye: European Court to Rule on Istanbul Mayor’s Detention
Click to expand Image Ekrem İmamoğlu in front of the courthouse in Istanbul, Türkiye where he received his official mandate to serve a second five-year term as Istanbul mayor after winning the March 31, 2024 municipal election, April 3, 2024. © 2024 Yasin Akgul/AFP via Getty…
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Zambia: Widespread Repression in Post-Election Crackdown
Click to expand Image A police vehicle on the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia, August 14, 2026. © 2026 Alfonso Nqunjana/AP Photo Zambian police and military forcibly disappeared, arbitrarily detained, beat, and threatened opposition members, lawyers, journalists, and government…
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Australia: Solitary Confinement Harming Prisoners with Disabilities
Click to expand Image The Adelaide Women’s Prison, South Australia, 2026. © 2026 Dean Faulkner/ABC News Prison authorities in the Australian state of South Australia are harming people with disabilities by using solitary confinement.Solitary confinement has a disproportionately…
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Australia: Solitary Confinement Harming Prisoners with Disabilities
Click to expand Image The Adelaide Women’s Prison, South Australia, 2026. © 2026 Dean Faulkner/ABC News Prison authorities in the Australian state of South Australia are harming people with disabilities by using solitary confinement.Solitary confinement has a disproportionately…
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Pakistan: Rights Lawyers Receive 10-Year Sentences
Click to expand Image Human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari (right) and Hadi Ali Chattha, during a court hearing in Islamabad, Pakistan, December 5, 2025. © 2025 Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan imposed 10-year prison sentences on…
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New US Sanctions Target Rwanda’s Abusive Role in Eastern Congo
Click to expand Image A member of the M23 looks on during an enrollment of civilians, police officers, and former members of the Congolese armed forces who have been recruited in Goma on February 23, 2025. © 2025 Michel Lunanga/AFP via Getty Images The United States Treasury…
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“They Killed Us”
Click to expand Image Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov of Russia during the award ceremony for the Nobel Peace prize on December 10, 2021, in Oslo, Norway. © 2021 Odd Andersen/AFP via Getty Images When I woke up this morning to the news that Novaya Gazeta is closing its…
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Critic of Mali’s Junta Forcibly Disappeared Six Months On
Click to expand Image Lawyer and junta critic Mountaga Tall, Mali, 2025. © Private Six months after their abductions, Mountaga Tall, an outspoken critic of Mali’s junta, and his son, Cheick Mamadou Tall, remain missing, their fate unknown, and the Malian authorities silent.…
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Women Should Never Give Birth in Shackles
Click to expand Image A woman in Australia. © 2008 Getty Images An incarcerated Indigenous woman was reportedly shackled during a hospital stay earlier this month to deliver her baby by caesarean section in a Queensland hospital in Australia. Queensland Corrective Services…
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Women Should Never Give Birth in Shackles
Click to expand Image A woman in Australia. © 2008 Getty Images An incarcerated Indigenous woman was reportedly shackled during a hospital stay earlier this month to deliver her baby by caesarean section in a Queensland hospital in Australia. Queensland Corrective Services…
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Mbappé, Mao, and La Liga
Click to expand Image An advertisement featuring French soccer star Kylian Mbappé in Shanghai, China, June 30, 2026. © 2026 Chinatopix via AP Photo This week a Chinese sports forum unearthed an April 2026 interview with Real Madrid football star Kylian Mbappé jokingly likening…
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UN Finds Age-Based Persecution of Palestinian Children
Click to expand Image Children on their way to school in the West Bank, September 16, 2026. © 2026 John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images A UN Commission of Inquiry concluded on October 14 that Israeli authorities have committed the crime against humanity of persecution against…
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Activist in DR Congo Faces Military Trial
More than three months have passed since plainclothes security officers arrested pro-democracy activist Clovis Kakule Mutsuva on July 18 in North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Mutsuva, 32, is awaiting trial before a military court on several charges.…
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US: New Hurdles to Having Votes Counted
Click to expand Image US election workers open and inspect mail-in ballot envelopes during processing inside the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center (MCTEC) on Election Day, November 5, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona. © 2024 Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images…
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Sri Lanka: Organized Crime Bill Violates Rights Standards
Click to expand Image A police anti-riot unit in Colombo, Sri Lanka, January 30, 2024. © 2024 Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto via AP Photo (New York) – The Sri Lankan government’s Prevention of Organised Crimes Bill, submitted to parliament on October 20, 2026, risks enabling…
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Yemen: Houthis Depriving Taizz Civilians of Food, Medicine
Click to expand Image People fill jerrycans with water at a distribution point in Taizz, Yemen, October 20, 2026. © 2026 AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – A long-running humanitarian crisis in Taizz, Yemen’s third-largest city, has drastically worsened since October 2026, when the…
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India: Mass Voter Roll Exclusions Deeply Flawed
Click to expand Image Protesters demand the scrapping of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the resignation of India’s top election official, in Hyderabad, India, on October 24, 2026. © 2026 Jwala Kotesh/NurPhoto via AP Photo The Indian authorities’…
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Indonesia: Landmark Ruling Allows Civilian Trials of Soldiers
Click to expand Image The Constitutional Court of Indonesia, in Jakarta, October 2023. © 2023 Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images (London) – The Indonesian Constitutional Court’s ruling requiring reform of the military justice system so that military personnel accused of…