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May 4, 2023 Report

China: Phone Search Program Tramples Uyghur Rights

Xinjiang Authorities Label Readings from Quran ‘Harmful’

A Chinese security officer watches a woman pass through a checkpoint, equipped with a metal detector and facial recognition technology, to enter the main bazaar in Urumqi in the Xinjiang region of China.
May 4, 2023 Report

Burkina Faso: Army Linked to Massacre of 156 Civilians

African Union, United Nations Should Press for Credible, Independent Inquiry

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May 4, 2023 Report

Sudan: Explosive Weapons Harming Civilians

Limited Access to Water, Electricity, Medical Care Fuels Humanitarian Crisis

Man stands next to building destroyed during fighting in Khartoum, Sudan
April 27, 2023 Report

Tanzania: Maasai Forcibly Displaced for Game Reserve

Provide Redress; Adopt New Conservation Model After Consultations

Tanzanian Maasai women evicted from their land in Loliondo sit outside a Maasai manyatta, a traditional house made with branches, mud, and cow-dung, in a village in Narok, Kenya, June 23, 2022.
April 27, 2023 Report

Turkish Border Guards Torture, Kill Syrians

Turkey Should End Impunity

A picture of the cement wall separating Syria and Turkey near Haram in Northwest Syria on March 14, 2023.
April 26, 2023 Report

Ethiopia: Companies Long Ignored Gold Mine Pollution

Provide Effective Remedy to Oromia Residents who Suffered Harm

A 16-year-old boy collects water from a spring near Lega Dembi gold mine in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. @2020 Tom Gardner
April 25, 2023 Report

Iran: Security Forces Kill, Torture, Abuse Children

Young Protesters Unlawfully Detained

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April 24, 2023 Report

Cambodia: Renewed Attacks on Political Opposition

Hun Sen’s Campaign Rhetoric Prompts Assaults, Wrongful Arrests

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen gives a speech in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Thursday, January 30, 2020.
April 17, 2023 Report

UK: “Hostile” Compensation Scheme Fails ‘Windrush’ Victims

Independence, Legal Aid, Appeals Rights Needed to Provide Effective Remedy

Thomas Tobierre, 69, who applied to the Home Office’s Windrush Compensation Scheme as a primary applicant, says he realized that the scheme was set up to deny claimants their right to an effective remedy.
April 13, 2023 Report

Ukraine: Russian Torture Center in Kherson

Unlawful Detention, Torture of Civilians During 8-Month Occupation

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April 11, 2023 Report

Pakistan: Farmers Forcibly Evicted for Urban Project

Reform Colonial-Era Laws to Protect Land Rights, Environment

A farmer herds sheep through farmland in the vicinity of the Ravi River project, in Lahore, Pakistan.
April 5, 2023 Report

Turkey: Police and Gendarmerie Abuses in Earthquake Zone

Torture and Other Ill-Treatment, Indifference to Violent Assaults

Two police officers watch removal of rubble from buildings that collapsed in the February 6 earthquakes, Hatay, Turkey, March 23, 2023.
April 4, 2023 Report

Central African Republic: Closing Civic Space

Journalists, Civil Society, Opposition Parties Face Harassment, Restrictions

Selection of Central African Republic newspapers, Bangui, January 2023
April 3, 2023 Report

Brazil: Online Learning Tools Harvest Children’s Data

One State Government Removes Ad Tracking, But Others Continue

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March 30, 2023 Report

DR Congo: Rampant Intercommunal Violence in West

Customary Land Tax Dispute in 2022 Sparks Hundreds of Killings

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