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Take Action: Solidarity with the Venezuelan PeopleVenezuela is facing a heartbreaking human rights and humanitarian crisis that President Maduro's administration denies is happening. Help us tell Latin American leaders that #TodosConVenezuela! Detained African Migrants Tortured, Raped in Yemen
Former detainees told Human Rights Watch that guards beat them with steel bars and sticks, whipped them, kicked and punched them, threatened to kill or deport them, sexually assaulted them, and fatally shot at least two men. LGBT Voices from the Middle East & North Africa
Despite state-sponsored repression and social stigma, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the Middle East and North Africa are finding ways to speak out. Hear their stories. Protests Surge in Armenia
"As I write this, hundreds, possibly thousands, of people are protesting on Baghramian Street near the parliament building. They’re separated from a police cordon by several meters and barbed wire fence. So far police have refrained from breaking up the crowd, but issued warnings calling on the crowd to disperse. The situation is tense." Rape Puts Myanmar Army on UN ‘List of Shame’
A new UN report finds that the Myanmar armed forces’ “widespread threat and use of sexual violence was integral to their strategy, humiliating, terrorizing and collectively punishing the Rohingya community.” Rohingya women and girls – “seen as custodians and propagators of ethnic identity” – were targeted for both their ethnicity and their gender.
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