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July 15, 2021 Q & A

Q&A: Legal Framework and Environment for Nongovernmental Groups (NGOs) in Egypt

Prominent rights activist and journalist Hossam Baghat, center, leaves a courtroom at the Cairo Criminal Court on March 24, 2016. In recent years, Egyptian authorities have relentlessly prosecuted leading human rights and civil society activists for their
July 15, 2021 Statement

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

July 14, 2021 Dispatches

North Korea Takes UN Hypocrisy to New Heights

Pyongyang Blames Problems on Everything but Own Abusive Policies

Visitors pay homage to the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il ahead of the 27th anniversary of the death of Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on July 7, 2021. 
July 14, 2021 News Release

Iran: Alleged Plot to Kidnap Prominent Dissident in US

Federal Court Indicts 4 Iranians for Targeting Journalist Masih Alinejad

Journalist and author Masih Alinejad speaks at a conference in New York City, on October 16, 2018.
July 14, 2021 Dispatches

Cuba Responds to Landmark Demonstrations with Brutal Repression

Internet Outages as Protesters Are Detained, Held Incommunicado

Plainclothes officers detain a protester during a protest in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, July 11, 2021. 
July 14, 2021 Dispatches

New Pledges to End Child Marriage in Francophone Africa

Governments Need to Match Commitments with Action

A girl holds the hand of a boy in Agadez, Niger on October 9, 2018.
July 14, 2021 News Release

Pakistan: Pass Anti-Torture Bill

Creating a Criminal Offense Essential to Police Reform

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July 14, 2021 News Release

Ecuador: Criminalizing Abortion Affects Rights, Health

Greatest Harm for Indigenous, Afro-Descendent People Living in Poverty

Feminist activists and pro-choice groups witness a debate at Ecuador’s National Assembly on Criminal Code reform, in which there was a possibility that legislators would approve the decriminalization of abortion in cases involving rape, in Quito, Ecuador, on January 3, 2019.
July 13, 2021 News Release

South Africa: Respect Rights While Policing Riots

Security Forces Should Observe International Law Enforcement Standards

A man suspected of looting is arrested at a shopping mall in Soweto, near Johannesburg, Tuesday July 13, 2021.
July 13, 2021 Dispatches

US Should Help Afghan Civil Society Partners at Risk

Taliban Advances a Threat to Many Activists, Journalists, Educators

A US flag is lowered as American and Afghan soldiers attend a handover ceremony from the US Army to the Afghan National Army, at Camp Anthonic, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan on May 2, 2021.
July 13, 2021 Dispatches

Congo Mourns Death of ‘Tata Cardinal’

Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Was Champion of Democracy and Human Rights

Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo from the Democratic Republic of Congo arrives at the Synod hall in the Vatican on February 13, 2015.
July 13, 2021 Statement

Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child Review of Ecuador

90th Pre-Session

July 12, 2021 Dispatches

Remembering Suha Jarrar, Trailblazing Palestinian Rights Defender

Israeli Authorities Should Allow Detained Mother, Parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar, to Attend Funeral

A picture of Suha Jarrar and flowers prepared by the staff of the Palestinian human rights group al-Haq and displayed at a commemoration for Jarrar in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on July 12, 2021 
July 12, 2021 Dispatches

People with Disabilities in Mexico Should Be Counted

Data Collection Reform Needs Meaningful Consultations

The National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Information building in Aguascalientes City, Mexico on July 19, 2018.
July 12, 2021 Letter

Letter to the President of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico

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