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July 22, 2020 Commentary

Most Covid-19 restrictions lifted, but Moscow is not open for protest

It appears that the city authorities have used Covid-19 as a pretext to deny permission for protests over a constitutional referendum.

July 22, 2020 Dispatches

Covid Creates Flashpoint for Anti-Migrant Sentiment in Italy

The Government Should Condemn Intolerance

Men who were rescued off the Libyan coast in January, 2020 watch the city of Messina, Sicily from the deck of the Open Arms rescue vessel.
July 21, 2020 Dispatches

Will Germany Seek Safe Housing Solutions for Asylum Seekers?

Mass Accommodations Put People at Risk During Covid-19

Members of a security service stand in protective gear inside a reception center for asylum seekers in North Rhine-Westphalia where 70 people tested positive for the virus that causes Covid-19, May 17, 2020. 
July 21, 2020 News Release

Kyrgyzstan/Kazakhstan: New Rules for Tallying Covid-19 Data

As Cases Surge, Ensure Access to Treatment, Medicine

Medical specialists wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) treat patients at a day hospital, which is located in a school gym and provides services free of charge, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan July 16, 2020.
July 20, 2020 Report

Egypt: Apparent Covid-19 Outbreaks in Prisons

Provide Protection, Medical Care, Accelerate Releases

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July 16, 2020 Commentary

Protection Requires Co-operation to Combat Covid-19

International relations: Nations should work together to combat health inequalities, poverty, and climate change

Nurses in protective gear prepare a ward designated for new patients infected with Covid-19 in a hospital in Budapest, Hungary, March 16, 2020.
July 15, 2020 Commentary

Stuck at Venezuela’s Border with Covid-19 All Around

The vulnerability that drove many Venezuelans to leave their home country has increased because of the Covid-19 pandemic. These migrants now face discrimination on the journey back

Venezuelan migrants wait for a bus in Bogota, Colombia, to travel to the border with Venezuela during the Covid-19 pandemic, on Thursday, July 2, 2020.
July 15, 2020 Dispatches

US Structural Racism Shapes Access to Water During Covid-19

Detroit, Others Should End Shutoffs for Inability to Pay

A man carries water for distribution at the Brightmoor Connection Food Pantry in Detroit, Michigan, March 23, 2020.
July 15, 2020 Dispatches

Philippines Uses ‘Drug War’ Tactics to Fight Covid-19

Police to Go House-to-House, Rely on Neighbor Reporting

A police officer checks the temperatures of passengers inside a jeepney at a checkpoint in Manila, Philippines, March 16, 2020. 
July 15, 2020 Report

Colombia: Armed Groups’ Brutal Covid-19 Measures

Killings, Threats, and Social Control

National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla members line up in their camp on the banks of the San Juan River, Chocó state, Colombia, on November 21, 2017. 
July 14, 2020 News Release

Maldives: Free Speech, Assembly Under Threat

Broad Restrictions on Protests Violate Rights

Foreign workers from Bangladesh gather in an alleyway of an accommodation block after being put under quarantine to contain the spread of Covid-19, May 9, 2020 in Male, Maldives. 
July 14, 2020 Statement

HRC Urged to Address Women’s Rights Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Annual full-day discussion on the human rights of women - Covid-19 and women’s rights

Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019.
July 14, 2020 News Release

Cambodia: Micro-Loan Borrowers Face Covid-19 Crisis

Suspend Debt Collection, Stop Coerced Land Sales

 The National Bank of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, January 2011. © 2011 Brent Lewin/Bloomberg via Getty Images
July 13, 2020 Dispatches

US Should Urgently Increase Access to Cooling

Covid-19 Pandemic Exacerbates Dangers of Killer Heat

Patrons get on an express bus set up by the city Phoenix, Arizona, to take people to a heat relief station inside the Phoenix Convention Center, May 29, 2020.
July 13, 2020 Letter

Protecting Human Rights in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Response to the Joint Questionnaire on Covid-19 and Human Rights by UN Special Procedure Mandate Holders

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