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September 10, 2021 News Release

Sri Lanka: UN Rights Council Scrutiny Crucial

Member States Should Disregard Government’s Baseless Claims

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September 10, 2021 News Release

Japan: Protect Fleeing Afghans at Risk

Support UN Reporting on Abuses; Increase Humanitarian Aid

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September 10, 2021 Letter

Letter to Prime Minister Suga on Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan

September 10, 2021 Dispatches

UK’s Unlawful Cruelty in the English Channel

Proposed Pushbacks Show Disregard for Life and Safety at Sea

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought into Dover, Kent, by Border Force officers on September 5, 2021.
September 9, 2021 Commentary

Opinion: The Chinese have long faced state secrecy and stonewalling. Now the world is seeing that with Covid-19.

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September 9, 2021 Commentary

Twenty Years On: The Legacy of 9/11

Bellevue Hospital memorial to victims of the World Trade Center attacks in New York, September 19, 2001. 
September 9, 2021 Commentary

9/11 Unleashed a Global Storm of Human Rights Abuses

Victims of Attacks Still Await Justice

A man stands in the rubble after the collapse of the first World Trade Center Tower in New York City on September 11, 2001.
September 9, 2021 Dispatches

Pope Francis’ Hungary Visit Should Stress Need for Empathy Towards Refugees

Visit Puts Orban Government’s Cruel Migration Policies Under Spotlight

Pope Francis unveils the sculpture on the theme of refugees and migration ' Angels Unawares ' by Canadian sculptor Timothy P. Schmalz, on Migrant and Refugee World Day, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019.
September 9, 2021 Dispatches

Two Preachers in Indonesia Charged with Blasphemy

Muslim and Christian Preachers Face Prison Under Abusive Law

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September 9, 2021 News Release

Qatar: Election Law Exposes Discriminatory Citizenship

Many Excluded from Running, Voting in First Legislative Elections

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September 9, 2021 News Release

Q&A on Afghans Fleeing Taliban

Comprehensive Refugee Resettlement Program Urgently Needed

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September 9, 2021 Q & A

What’s Next for Afghans Fleeing the Taliban?

Questions and Answers

Afghans from northern provinces who fled their homes due to the fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security forces take refuge in a public parc in Kabul, August 13, 2021. 
September 8, 2021 Dispatches

Texas and US Supreme Court Deal Blow to Reproductive Rights

New Law Prohibits Nearly All Abortion Essentially After Six Weeks of Pregnancy

Protesters march from City Hall to the federal courthouse in protest of the new state abortion law in Houston, Texas on September 5th, 2021.
September 8, 2021 Dispatches

Mexican Soldiers and Immigration Agents Violently Detain Asylum Seekers

US Should Encourage Rights-Respecting Immigration Policy

Agents of the National Migration Institute detain a migrant during an operation to halt the progress of a caravan of migrants and asylum seekers in Chiapas state, Mexico on September 1, 2021.
September 8, 2021 Dispatches

Tentative Steps Toward Vaccine Equity in Malaysia

Demonstrate that Undocumented Migrants Won’t Be Arrested

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