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Recent Corrections
May 11, 2021
This dispatch has been removed due to questions that have arisen since publication about a witness testimony included in it. While Human Rights Watch was able to verify independently one of the cases described in the testimony, and similar accounts have been reported in independent media in Hungary, we were not able to verify other cases mentioned in the testimony.
The congestion rate in Philippine jails cited in this news release has been corrected to indicate that the figure was from the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, not the International Committee of the Red Cross.
A quote in this news release has been updated to reflect that Iraq's lawmakers have not done enough to save the lives of women and girls dying at the hands of their families.
This news release has been amended to reflect the correct outlet where Natig Isbatov writes.
At least 84 countries have imposed emergency policies and measures due to the COVID-19 crisis, but according to publicly available notifications deposited with the UN, only 11 countries have formally informed the UN of derogations from their human rights obligations as of April 15.
April 8, 2020:
This news release has been updated to correct the USD value of 75 billion Lebanese pounds. It is approximately $28 million.
This news release has been updated to correct the number of gender-based violence cases during lockdown on March 27, 2020 to March 31, 2020.
The congestion rate in Philippine jails cited in this news release has been corrected to indicate that the figure was from the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, not the International Committee of the Red Cross.
This press release has been updated to reflect ventilators and CT scanners as among the equipment exempted after an expansion of the general license in November 2015.
This news release has been updated to correct the name of one of the media outlets that Khaled Drareni works with to “TV5 Monde."