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June 5, 2023 Dispatches

Role of Fossil Fuels Absent at Plastics Treaty Negotiations

Governments Need to Prioritize Human Rights, Reduce Plastic Production

Campaigners and waste pickers from around the world holding a sign reading, “plastic puts 218 million people at risk of more severe flooding,” outside the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, where the second round of plastics treaty negotiations took place, May 30, 2023.
June 5, 2023 News Release

Senegal: Violent Crackdown On Opposition, Dissent

Investigate Deaths, Injuries; Release Political Prisoners; Ensure Free Assembly

Supporters of Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko clash with security forces on June 2, 2023, after Sonko was sentenced to prison in Dakar, Senegal.
June 5, 2023 News Release

Central African Republic: Referendum Poses Risks

Presidential Term Measure a Threat to Civil Society, Freedom of Expression

President Faustin-Archange Touadéra greets supporters after highest court confirmed his re-election at his party headquarter in Bangui, Central Africa Republic January 18, 2021.
June 5, 2023 News Release

Vietnam: Free Anti-Corruption Campaigner

Dang Dang Phuoc, a Music Teacher, Prosecuted for Blogging on Rights Issues

Dang Dang Phuoc 
June 5, 2023 News Release

Malawi: Refugees, Including Children, Forcibly Relocated

End Evictions, Confinement to Overcrowded Camp

June 5, 2023 News Release

COP28: Climate Talks Should Ensure Fossil Fuel Phaseout

In Bonn, Ahead of COP28, Confront UAE on Oil, Rights

Sultan Ahmed al Jaber, the new president of COP28, with the German federal foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, May 3, 2023.
June 2, 2023 Interview

Interview: Stories of Abuse, Suffering From People Fleeing Fighting in Sudan

Smoke rises above buildings after an aerial bombing during fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum North, Sudan, May 1, 2023.
June 2, 2023 Dispatches

UN Slashes Food Rations for Rohingya in Bangladesh Camps

Harsh Conditions Could Force Refugees Back to Danger in Myanmar

Rohingya refugees collect boxes of food aid at a distribution point in the Kutupalong camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, August 14, 2018.
June 2, 2023 Dispatches

Angola Police Violently Disperse Street Traders’ Protest

Dogs, Tear Gas Used Against Women Vendors

Street vendors serve customers in Luanda, Angola, August 20, 2022.
June 2, 2023 Dispatches

Russia Moves to Ban Trans Health Care

Exceptions for Medically Unnecessary “Normalizing” Operations on Intersex Children

A Russian transgender woman walks in Saint Petersburg on April 12, 2019. 
June 2, 2023 News Release

Rwanda: Alleged Genocide Mastermind Arrested

Fulgence Kayishema Caught After Two Decades; Should Face Swift, Fair Trial

1994 Rwandan genocide suspect Fulgence Kayishema appears in the Cape Town Magistrates court in Cape Town, South Africa, May 26, 2023.
June 2, 2023 Commentary

Africa: Independent judiciaries can defend rights

People take part in the first Botswana Pride Parade in Gaborone, November 30, 2019.
June 2, 2023 Dispatches

Saudi Arabia Executes Two Shi’a Bahrainis on Terrorism Charges

Rights Groups Call Trial Grossly Unfair

People gather around the symbolic graves of Jaafar Sultan (left) and Sadeq Thamer
June 1, 2023 Commentary

Tunisia: Subjugating the Courts is Key to Saeid’s Power Grab

Kais Saied during the sworn ceremony in Bardo, Tunis, Tunisia on October 23, 2019.
June 1, 2023 News Release

Sudan: Concrete UN Security Council Action Needed

African Council Members Should Take Leading Role in Ending Abuses

File photo showing a meeting of the United Nations Security Council.

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