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September 29, 2025 News Release

UN: Support Protection, Justice for Rohingya

High-Level Conference Should Commit to Address Past and Ongoing Abuses

Rohingya refugees walk through rice fields after crossing the border from Myanmar into Palang Khali, Bangladesh, October 19, 2017.
September 29, 2025 News Release

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Free Buzurgmehr Yorov and All Others Held for Exercising Their Human Rights

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September 29, 2025 Report

Tanzania: Deepening Repression Threatens Elections

Stop Wrongful Arrests, Media Crackdown; Ensure All Parties Can Fairly Participate

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September 28, 2025 News Release

China: Draft ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law Tightens Ideological Control

Bill Seeks to Justify Repression of Minorities, Erase Language Rights, Extend Control Abroad

High school students attend a Chinese language class at a public boarding school for students from northern Tibet, in Lhasa in China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 1, 2021.
September 26, 2025 News Release

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September 26, 2025 Dispatches

Reproductive Rights, Abortion Access Under Threat in Argentina

Rollback of Abortion and Reproductive Health Programs Undermines Women’s and Girls’ Rights

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September 26, 2025 Statement

Shadow Report on the Implementation of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights by Tunisia

Submitted to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights under Rule 79(3) of the 2020 Rules of Procedure of the Commission at its 85th Ordinary Session (October 21-30, 2025) in Banjul

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September 26, 2025 Statement

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The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, June 13, 2022.
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Address Response Gaps, Protect Rights

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September 26, 2025 Letter

Letter to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba regarding the visit by Sri Lanka’s President and human rights concerns

September 25, 2025 News Release

Vietnam: Free Prominent Rights Activist

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September 25, 2025 News Release

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September 25, 2025 Feature

Hundreds of Belarusians in Prison for Exercising Their Rights

Minsk Freed Some Political Prisoners, but Many More Remain Behind Bars

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September 25, 2025 Statement

Kyrgyzstan: Support for UN Recommendations Ignores Media Freedom, Civil Society, and LGBT Rights

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The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, June 13, 2022.
September 25, 2025 Letter

Joint Civil Society Statement Marking the One Year Anniversary of the Announcement of a Legal Initiative to Hold Afghanistan Accountable Under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

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