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July 31, 2025 Dispatches

UK Plans AI Experiment on Children Seeking Asylum

Refugee Children Need Care, Not Algorithms

Manston Detention Centre, in Kent, United Kingdom, is used by the government to detain and process people seeking asylum. In 2022 and in 2024, the government allegedly detained unaccompanied refugee children there by purposefully misclassifying them as adults. Ramsgate, England, June 24, 2025.

July 31, 2025 Dispatches

Saint Lucia High Court Decriminalizes Same-Sex Conduct

Remaining Five Caribbean Nations Should Repeal Similar Criminal Laws

A local market in Castries, St Lucia, Caribbean, April 2019.

July 31, 2025 Dispatches

UK Acts to Protect Football from Rights Abusers

Stronger Checks on Club Owners Amid Global Rise in Sportswashing

July 31, 2025 Dispatches

Burkina Faso Releases Conscripted Journalists, Activist

Additional Journalists, Critics of the Government Still Missing

A portrait of Guezouma Sanogo (on the left) and Boukari Ouoba.

July 30, 2025 Dispatches

US Moves to Kill Ability to Regulate Greenhouse Gases

Proposal Would Strip Environmental Protection Agency Authority to Curb Emissions

Pollution rises from the stacks of the Miami Fort Power Plant, which is situated along the Ohio River near Cincinnati, Ohio, July 11, 2025

July 29, 2025 Dispatches

New Bill Could Curb Exploitation of US Gig Workers

Congress Should Vote for Transparency, Living Wages

A food delivery driver in Lone Tree, Colorado, March 30, 2020.

July 27, 2025 Dispatches

Afghan Women Continue to Fight for Bodily Autonomy

Recent Arrests Highlight Need to Confront ‘Gender Apartheid’

Afghan women walk past razor barricades along a roadside in Kabul on December 8, 2024.

July 24, 2025 Dispatches

World Court Rules Tackling Climate Crisis is an International Legal Obligation

States Should Phase out Fossil Fuels, Protect Human Rights, Repair Harm 

Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu's minister for climate change, speaks surrounded by demonstrators at the International Court of Justice ahead of an advisory opinion on what legal obligations nations have to address climate change in The Hague, Netherlands, July 23, 2025.

July 24, 2025 Dispatches

Russia Clamps Down on Online Searches

A New Bill Further Harms Access to Information, Rights Online

Police detain an activist in front of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, in Moscow, Russia, July 22, 2025, before lawmakers approved a bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed "extremist."

July 24, 2025 Dispatches

Ukraine ‘Suspends’ Vital Mine Ban Treaty

Respect Global Prohibition on Antipersonnel Landmines

A humanitarian deminer at work in Mykolaiv region, Ukraine, April 16, 2025.

July 24, 2025 Dispatches

Anti-Corruption Activist Under Pressure in Ukraine

Retaliation Against Civil Activists Should Not Be Tolerated

Vitaliy Shabunin during a hearing in his case at the Pecherskyi District Court in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 15, 2025.

July 23, 2025 Dispatches

Desperate Pleas from Starving Palestinians Shouldn’t Be Ignored

States Should Urgently Act to Stop Israeli-Engineered Mass Starvation

A woman consoles her 6-year-old daughter, who is malnourished, at a shelter in central Gaza City, on May 11, 2025.

July 17, 2025 Dispatches

A Disappointing Ruling in Italy with a Silver Lining

Constitutional Court Says Sea Rescue Groups Can Ignore Invalid Orders

The SOS MEDITERRANEE crew performs a rescue in the central Mediterranean, March 9, 2025.

July 16, 2025 Dispatches

Greece's Asylum Suspension Denies Rights, Puts Lives at Risk

EU Action Needed to Safeguard People Seeking Safety

A Portuguese vessel in a Frontex operation in Lesbos, Greece, 2016.

July 14, 2025 Dispatches

Standing Firm on Women’s Right to Live Free of Violence

UN Women’s Rights Body Asserts Existing International Law Amid Backlash

Protesters march against gender-based violence in front of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, South Africa, September 13, 2019.

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