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March 26, 2024 News Release

Brazil: Join Regional Treaty on Environment, Defenders

Lula Administration and Congress Should Work Together Toward Approval

March 25, 2024 News Release

Argentina: Firearms Resolution Opens Door to Abuse

Milei Administration Should Strengthen Investigative Capacity, Fight Corruption

March 21, 2024 News Release

Cameroon: Government Bans Opposition Coalitions

Solidifies Crackdown on Free Association, Expression Ahead of 2025 Vote

Demonstrators stopped by gendarmes and police in Bafang, West Cameroon, on September 22, 2020.

March 21, 2024 News Release

Canada: All 10 Provinces To End Immigration Detention in Jails

Newfoundland and Labrador Joins the Rest; Federal Government Should Follow Suit

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."

March 21, 2024 News Release

Seychelles: Rights Concerns in High-Profile Case

Irregularities Risk Jeopardizing Anticorruption Efforts

The Supreme Court of Justice, in the island of Mahe, Seychelles.

March 21, 2024 News Release

UN Rights Council: Renew Iran Mandates

Maintain Special Rapporteur and Fact-Finding Mission

Delegates attend the opening day of the 50th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

March 19, 2024 News Release

Hong Kong: New Security Law Full-Scale Assault on Rights

Beijing Doubles Down on Suppressing Basic Freedoms

A screen displays the results of a vote.

March 19, 2024 News Release

US: Supreme Court Opens Door to Chaos, Abuse in Texas

Allows Law Letting Police Deport Migrants to Stand, For Now

People hold a banner during a protest against Operation Lone Star after members of the Texas National Guard shot and wounded a 22-year-old near the Bridge of the Americas in El Paso, Texas, September 1, 2023. © 2023 REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

March 19, 2024 News Release

Israeli Assurances to Use US Arms Legally Are Not Credible

Oxfam and Human Rights Watch provide evidence of Israel's violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza, undermining credibility of assurances for President Biden's NSM-20 arms policy

Airbursts of artillery-fired white phosphorus fall over the Gaza city port, October 11, 2023.

March 17, 2024 News Release

India: Authorities Revoke Visa Privileges of Diaspora Critics

Government Targets Overseas Indians Opposing Ruling Party Policies

Nitasha Kaul, professor at the University of Westminster in London, during an Asia, the Pacific and Nonproliferation Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, October 22, 2019.

March 17, 2024 News Release

Jordan: Ensure Accountability, Compensation for Syria Strikes

Cross-Border Counter-Smuggling Operations Kill Syrians

A Jordanian airstrike on January 18 on the town of Orman in the southern governorate of Sweida killed Dima, 5 (left) and Farah, 3, their parents Turki al-Halabi and Faten Abu Shahin, and three other relatives.

March 15, 2024 News Release

Belarus: Open letter to Ambassadors of Member States of the UN Human Rights Council (UN HRC)

13 March 2024

March 15, 2024 News Release

Brazil: Comply with Rulings on Police Violence

Inter-American Court Orders Improved Oversight, Investigations of Killings

The image shows a group of people participating in a protest. The protesters hold banners and wear t-shirts with a person's face. One prominent banner read, in Portuguese, "There is no confrontation when only one side shoots" with the word "JUSTICE" emphasized below.

March 15, 2024 News Release

Kyrgyzstan: Veto Law to Curb Civil Society

Reject ‘Foreign Representatives’ Bill; Uphold International Rights Commitments

March 15, 2024 News Release

Sudan: Urgent Action Needed on Hunger Crisis

Security Council Should Act on Access for Aid Deliveries

Sudanese women and children who fled the conflict in Geneina, in Sudan's Darfur region, line up at the water point in Adre, Chad, July 30, 2023.

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