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September 30, 2025 Dispatches

Taliban’s Internet Ban Further Silences Afghan Women, Girls

Claims of ‘Morality’ Used to Bolster Repression

In July 2012, Afghan women and girls visit an internet cafe called "Young Women for Change" in Kabul, Afghanistan.

September 29, 2025 Dispatches

Japan Court Drops Key Legal Hurdle for Transgender People

Ruling Against Gender Appearance Requirement Advances Right to Legal Recognition

Participants at the Tokyo Trans March in Shibuya district of Tokyo, March 31, 2023.

September 29, 2025 Dispatches

As Israel Escalates Assault, Germany Should Support EU Action on Gaza

Berlin’s Consent Crucial to Suspend Preferential Tariffs, Adopt Sanctions

Activists set up pictures of children from Gaza in front of the Reichstag building during a protest calling for greater commitment of the German government to the children of Gaza and the defense of international law, in Berlin, Germany, July 9, 2025.

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

People hold green handkerchiefs during a demonstration in support of safe and legal abortion access to mark International Safe Abortion Day, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 28, 2023.

September 24, 2025 Dispatches

Protecting Disability Rights Means Rebuking Harmful Autism Myths

Families of Children with Autism Deserve Access to Health, Education, and Community

A mother supporting her 14-year-old son with autism in homeschooling, Orlando, Florida, US, October 1, 2020.

September 24, 2025 Dispatches

Countries’ Fossil Fuel Plans Put Climate Goals Out of Reach

To Protect Communities, Producers Should Honor Climate Commitments

Pollution and steam rise from the stacks of the Miami Fort Power Station, along the Ohio River, in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, US, September 21, 2025.

September 24, 2025 Dispatches

Egypt’s Parliament Should Open New Era of Consultation

President Sisi’s Rejection of Criminal Procedure Code an Opportunity

Outside of the High Court, downtown Cairo, Egypt on January 1, 2015.

September 24, 2025 Dispatches

EU-Vietnam Trade Agreement Has Failed to Promote Rights

EU Trade Chief’s Visit to Hanoi Should Address Political Prisoners, Labor Rights

European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maroš Šefčovič speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, September 3, 2025.

September 22, 2025 Dispatches

Trump Administration Seeks to Rewrite Global Refugee Rules

States Should Rally to Defend Crucial Protections

A Libyan coastguard boat carrying migrants arrive at the port in the city of Misrata on May 3, 2015, after the coastguard intercepted five boats carrying around 500 people trying to reach Europe.

September 22, 2025 Dispatches

Cycling Event Can’t Override Rwanda’s Abuses

Kigali May Be Open to International Sports, but Not to Critics

Mauritian rider Aurelie Halbwachs competes in the women's Elite Individual Time Trial cycling event during the UCI 2025 Road World Championships, in Kigali, Rwanda, September 21, 2025.

September 22, 2025 Dispatches

New Industry Requirements Could Disrupt Abusive Armed Groups’ Trade in Gold

Full Transparency Needed to Protect Rights in Gold Supply Chains

A gold miner carries a sack of rocks to a grinding mill at a mine in El Callao, Bolivar state, Venezuela, April 29, 2023.

September 19, 2025 Dispatches

US Judge Blocks Expulsion of Guatemalan Children

Trump Administration Attempted to Expel 76 Unaccompanied Children

Deported children, along with their parents, sit in a migration office after being processed by staff of the Guatemalan Immigration Institute after arriving on deportation flights from the United States and Mexico, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, January 23, 2024.

September 19, 2025 Dispatches

Protection of Athletes Advances in Japan

Japan Association of Athletics Federations Sets Out Human Rights Policies

Japanese high jumper Tomohiro Shinno participates in the 60th Palio Citta della Quercia, in Rovereto, Italy, September 3, 2024.

September 19, 2025 Dispatches

Immigration Detention Ends in Provincial Jails Across Canada

Ontario Last to Cancel; Ottawa Should Halt Expansion to Federal Prisons

This is a list with checkmarks next to the names of Canada's ten provinces to show their ending of immigration detention in jails. There is a question mark next to the word "Federal."

September 19, 2025 Dispatches

EU’s New India Strategy Overlooks Modi’s Repression

Persistent Silence, Lack of Scrutiny Encourage Further Abuses

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (center left) and the College of European Commissioners with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other Indian officials in New Delhi, February 27, 2025.

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