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September 3, 2021 News Release

Afghanistan: Humanitarian Crisis Needs Urgent Response

Rising Hunger; Collapsing Education, Health Systems

Afghans wait for hours to try to withdraw money from a bank in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 30, 2021. 
September 3, 2021 Letter

Human Rights Watch Letter to UK Parliamentarians Regarding Impending Cut to Social Security Support

Cut to Universal Credit would breach UK’s international human rights obligations

September 2, 2021 Commentary

Venezuela: A Successful Political Negotiation Needs a Human Rights Agenda

Believe or not, there are reasons for both sides to include human rights in the Mexico talks

Jorge Rodriguez, left, representing the Maduro government, shakes hands with Venezuelan opposition delegate Gerardo Blyde Perez, in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021.
September 2, 2021 Dispatches

Afghans Stuck at Poland’s Border Need Protection

Polish Authorities Should Allow Access to Territory and Asylum Process

Polish security forces surround migrants at the border with Belarus in Usnarz Gorny, Poland on September 1, 2021. 
September 2, 2021 News Release

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Congress Ousts Dozens of Judges

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele delivers his annual address to the nation before Congress, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, June 1.
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North Korea Controls Youth Through ‘Hard Labor’

Expands Demands of Work to Shore Up Flagging Economy

2021년 5월 25일 평양의 락랑구역에서 농부들이 벼를 심고 있다. ©2021 전철진/AP
September 2, 2021 Dispatches

EU’s Cold-Hearted Response to Afghans at Risk

Dodging Responsibility with Hostile Rhetoric and Harmful Policies

Polish soldiers build a fence with concertina wire at the border with Belarus in Krynki, Poland, on August 27, 2021.
September 2, 2021 Commentary

How the International Community Can Protect Afghan Women and Girls

Women gather to demand their rights under Taliban rule during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan on September 3, 2021.
September 2, 2021 Dispatches

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Corruption Settlement Returns Looted Funds to the Public They Were Stolen From

Proceeds from the Malibu home seized from Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, vice president of Equatorial Guinea, are now funding the country's Covid-19 vaccine drive.
September 2, 2021 News Release

UN Security Council: Renew Afghanistan Mission

Bolster Rights Monitoring; Ensure Sanctions Don’t Impede Humanitarian Aid

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September 1, 2021 News Release

Australia: Prisoners Denied Vaccine Access

New South Wales Should Urgently Address Spread of Covid-19 in Prisons

The entry sign to Parklea Correctional Centre in Sydney.
September 1, 2021 Commentary

Al-Sisi Is Leaving the Sick to Suffer in Egypt’s Prisons

The Egyptian government has deliberately let a former presidential candidate languish behind bars without proper medical care.

Egyptian security forces have been involved in systematic abuses such as enforced disappearance and torture and have used abusive counterterrorism laws and measures to crush peaceful dissent. Egyptian security forces stand guard outside one of the entranc
September 1, 2021 Dispatches

Protest Demands End to Harmful Surgeries on Intersex Children

Hospital Should Halt Medically Unnecessary Surgeries

Demonstrators gather for an #EndIntersexSurgery protest outside Weill-Cornell hospital in New York City in August 2021. 
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90th Pre-Session

August 31, 2021 News Release

US Congress: Sufficiently Fund Public Housing

Reinvestment Needed to Protect Residents’ Rights

First Houses in Manhattan, one of the earliest public housing developments in the United States

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