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September 29, 2023 Dispatches

Clashes in Lebanon Risk Disrupting Education for Thousands of Children

Occupation and Damage to Schools for Palestinian Refugee Kids Causing Education Delays

Palestinian residents who fled their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, carry their belongings as they board a bus to be moved from Sidon municipality to an UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) school, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, September 12, 2023.
September 29, 2023 Dispatches

No, Syria Is Still Not Safe for Refugee Returns

Cypriot Leader’s Suggestion Otherwise is Dangerous and Unrealistic

Migrants from Syria walk towards a refugee camp at Kokkinotrimithia, outside of the capital Nicosia, in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, September 10, 2017.
September 29, 2023 Commentary

Israel Just Eased Restrictions on US Citizens, the EU Should Demand No Less for Europeans

An Israeli man presents his passport for control upon arrival from Tel Aviv to the Dubai airport in the United Arab Emirates, on November 26, 2020.
September 29, 2023 Dispatches

Time to Ban Facial Recognition from Public Spaces and Borders

Rights Groups Sound the Alarm on Mass Surveillance Technology

Pedestrians walk across a crossroad as a big electronic screen supported by face-recognition system shows the image of a jaywalker at the intersection in Nanjing city, east China's Jiangsu province, July 4, 2019.
September 29, 2023 Dispatches

Beijing’s Increasingly Desperate Attempts to Squelch UN Criticism

UN Member Countries Should Vote Not to Return China to Human Rights Council

China's then-Minister for Foreign Affairs Qin Gang delivers a remote statement during the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, February 27, 2023.
September 29, 2023 Statement

Joint NGO statement on the Guarantee our Essentials campaign

Leading human rights organizations join call for UK social security to include an Essentials Guarantee

September 29, 2023 Dispatches

European Court Hears Climate Crisis Case Brought by Children

Lack of Promised Climate Action Threatens Human Rights

Portugal Wild Fires
September 29, 2023 Commentary

France Needs International Scrutiny of Its Police Racism

Police agents check identity documents of passerby during the lockdown in Rennes, France. April 11, 2020.
September 29, 2023 Statement

Brazil: Submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

74th Session

September 28, 2023 Statement

Principled Action Required to Ensure Ongoing International Scrutiny on Ethiopia

HRW Oral Statement - ID with the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia - HRC54

Displaced Ethiopians from different towns in the Amhara region wait for aid distributions at a center for the internally-displaced in Debark, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia August 26, 2021.
September 28, 2023 Statement

UN Rights Council Must Act on Rights Crises in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain'

HRW Oral Statement - Item 4 General Debate - HRC54

Overview of the United Nations Human Rights Council is seen in Geneva, Switzerland June 6, 2017.
September 28, 2023 Dispatches

Prominent Journalist Denied Bail in Congo

Stanis Bujakera Spends Third Week in Detention on Dubious Charges

Stanis Bujakera in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 2023.
September 28, 2023 Dispatches

UN Rights Body Should Extend Ethiopia Investigations

European Union Should Lead Action to Preserve International Scrutiny of Rights Crisis

Displaced persons center in northern Ethiopia where many still suffer from the effects of the war that began in 2020, August 14, 2023.
September 28, 2023 Dispatches

EU Commission Should Stop Ignoring Tunisia’s Abuses Against Migrants

Migration Control Funding Could Perpetuate Human Rights Violations

Netherlands' Prime Minister Mark Rutte, left, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Tunisian President Kais Saied, centre, right and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, right, at the presidential palace in Carthage, Tunisia, July 16, 2023.
September 28, 2023 Dispatches

Xenophobia Rears its Ugly Head in South Africa

Foreigners Scapegoated for Country’s Problems

A man holds up a South African flag as members of "Operation Dudula" march down a street in the Hillbrow neighborhood to deliver memoranda to several businesses in the area, Johannesburg, South Africa, February 19, 2022.

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