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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.

September 18, 2025 Dispatches

New Research Details Hidden Health Risks of Methane Emissions 

EU Faces Trump Administration Pressure to Roll Back Regulations

A methane emissions event in Bakersfield, California, captured by the Methane Risk Map.

September 17, 2025 Dispatches

Russian Strike Kills Dozens of Older People in Ukraine

Russian Attacks on Ukrainian Civilians Escalate

Policemen and medics help move people from an armored car to an ambulance in the village of Yarova, Donetska region. On September 9, 2025, Yarova was hit by a Russian aerial strike, which killed dozens of civilians.

September 17, 2025 Dispatches

Taliban Deny Afghan Girls’ Their Education and Future

After Four Devastating Years, Where is the Global Outrage?

Afghan girls attend a class after their school reopened in Kabul on March 23, 2022. Hours later, the Taliban ordered girls' secondary schools shut.

September 16, 2025 Dispatches

Greece’s Latest Assault on Civil Society

EU Action Needed to Protect Civic Space

A group of newly-arrived migrants board a ferry in Souda, on the island of Crete, Greece, July 11, 2025.

September 16, 2025 Dispatches

Investigate Death of Mexican National During ICE Stop

CCTV Chicago Area Footage Calls Official Account Into Question

People pay their respects during a demonstration near a small memorial for Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez on September 13, 2025 in Franklin Park, Illinois, US.

September 15, 2025 Dispatches

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa Kills Journalists

Israel, Yemen Authorities Targeting Media Workers

People inspect damage on September 13, 2025, in Sanaa, Yemen days after an Israeli strike hit the center of the city.

September 12, 2025 Dispatches

Ethiopian Health Professionals to Resume Striking

Government Should Address Grievances, Not Crush Protest

A doctor visits a patient at the emergency ward of the Suhul General Hospital in Shire, Ethiopia, October 11, 2024.

September 11, 2025 Dispatches

WHO Guidance Win for People with Albinism, Diabetes

New Essential Medicines Lists Include Sunscreen, Analog Insulin

September 11, 2025 Dispatches

Flotillas Highlight Urgency to Lift Israel’s Blockade of Gaza

Governments Should Sanction Israeli Officials for Mass Starvation; Protect Flotilla Activists

Ships that are part of the Global Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza are anchored off the coast of Sidi Bou Said in Tunis, Tunisia, September 9, 2025.

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