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May 15, 2024
Thailand: ‘Swap Mart’ Targets Foreign Dissidents, Refugees
Thai authorities are assisting neighboring governments to take unlawful actions against refugees and dissidents from abroad, making Thailand increasingly unsafe for those fleeing persecution.
May 15, 2024
“We Thought We Were Safe”
การปราบปรามและการบังคับส่งกลับผู้ลี้ภัยในประเทศไทย
Since the 2014 military coup in Thailand, refugees and asylum seekers in the country have faced surveillance, violence, abductions, enforced disappearances, and forced returns facilitated by the government of Thailand. At the same time, Thai authorities have engaged in acts of transnational repression against exiled Thai activists in Southeast Asia.
May 15, 2024
No Justice for Crackdown in Tajikistan’s Autonomous Region Two Years On
Two years ago, Tajik authorities cracked down on protesters in an autonomous region of the country, resulting in the death of a local man by what witnesses reported was live ammunition from security forces.
May 15, 2024
Peru Chooses Bigotry in Medical Services
Peru’s government published a presidential decree on May 10 classifying trans identities as mental health conditions in the country’s Essential Health Insurance Plan, which lists insurable health conditions for insurance policies.
May 15, 2024
When Laws Fail to Protect Trans People, Harmful Medicalized Norms Creep In
Earlier this year, Germany became the world’s latest country to pass a clear law that allows transgender people to change their legal gender to reflect their identity based on self-declaration. A number of other countries are staggering toward this goal; in some, policies allow self-identification for some documents and not others. But the majority of the world’s governments still either disallow changes in legal gender recognition altogether, or have laws that require trans people to undergo medical intervention to access their rights.
May 15, 2024
Letter Urging Meta to Maintain CrowdTangle Tool Through Upcoming Elections
The undersigned civil society organizations and researchers urge you to fulfill your civic obligations by maintaining the full functionality of CrowdTangle beyond Inauguration Day through at least January 31, 2025, to ensure this vital tool can be used to ensure the integrity of this important election cycle.
May 15, 2024
A Human Rights Guide to the 2024 European Elections
Between 6 and 9 June 2024 voters in all 27 EU member states will go to the polls to elect 720 members of the European Parliament. These will be the first European elections since Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic, and conflicts in Ukraine and in the Middle East that have polarized Europe.
May 15, 2024
Mozambique: Child Soldiers Used in Raid on Northern Town
An armed group linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) in northern Mozambique used boys as young as 13 to raid and loot the town of Macomia, in Cabo Delgado province, on May 10, 2024.