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June 9, 2020 Commentary

When Schools Reopen, Many Children Will Be Missing

Rohingya refugee students demonstrate against being expelled from Bangladeshi secondary schools in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, February 6, 2019.
June 9, 2020 Dispatches

Systemic Inequities Increase Covid-19 Risk for Indigenous People in Canada

Challenges Include Barriers to Healthcare, Adequate Housing and Resources

Roxanne Moonias, mother to an infant with a chronic illness, demonstrates one of the steps she takes to ensure her baby is not exposed to contaminants in the water.
June 8, 2020 News Release

Africa: Covid-19 Exposes Healthcare Shortfalls

Prioritize Investment to Improve Access to Care for All

Healthcare workers treating Covid-19 patients in Tanzania wear personal protective equipment used to protect against the transmission of the disease. The spread of Covid-19 has revealed the harmful impacts of insufficient healthcare investment by African governments, including inadequate supplies of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers.
June 8, 2020 Dispatches

Mental Health Support Necessary During Covid-19 Pandemic

“Panic Attacks, Depression, Exhaustion” Cited as Among the Tolls of the Crisis

A man walks past a street art mural by the artist ADW in County Laois, Ireland, May 30, 2020. Entitled "Is it Still raining? I hadn't noticed", the work deals with the issue of mental health during the Covid-19 lockdown.
June 5, 2020 News Release

Venezuela: Deal to Distribute Aid through UN

World Food Program Should be Allowed In

Individuos con mascarillas caminan al lado de un mural con una imagen de Nicolás Maduro en Caracas, el 17 de abril de 2020, en medio de un brote del nuevo coronavirus (COVID-19).
June 5, 2020 Commentary

‘Please Help Those Who Are Sick and Leave Me Be’

Former Covid-19 Patient’s Quarantine Saga

Nigina Beroeva
June 4, 2020 Commentary

How Digital Contact Tracing for COVID-19 Could Worsen Inequality

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June 4, 2020 Commentary

Second Covid-19 Death in US Immigration Detention

Many Detainees Should Be Released; States Should Halt Transfers

An illustration of a man in a prison uniform lying in fetal position at a crossroads (the roads have barbed wire)
June 4, 2020 Commentary

Covid-19: The Risk in Mexican Prisons

 A woman wearing a protective mask leaves North Prison during a demonstration to protest the mistreatment of prisoners during the Covid-19 pandemic on May 13, 2020 in Mexico City, Mexico.
June 4, 2020 News Release

US: Suspend Deportations During Pandemic

Forced Returns Risk Further Global Spread of Virus

An ICE detainee rests his hands on the window of his cell in the segregation wing at the Adelanto immigration detention center, which is run by the Geo Group Inc, in Adelanto, California, on April 13, 2017.
June 2, 2020 Dispatches

Caregivers Overwhelmed by Increased Demands Under Pandemic

“I Cannot Keep Up,” Says One Parent

A schoolgirl taking online classes with her mother at home
June 2, 2020 News Release

Ensure Justice for Migrant Workers Sent Home

Hasty Repatriation During Covid-19 Leading to Labor Violations

Workers walk towards the construction site of the Lusail stadium which will be build for the upcoming 2022 Fifa soccer World Cup during a stadium tour in Doha, Qatar, December 20, 2019.
June 2, 2020 News Release

Russia: Publish Data About Covid-19 in Institutional Care

Lack of Information Could Exacerbate Spread of Infection, Deaths

A resident in a nursing home in the village of Sosnovskoye in Omsk region, opens a bag with sweets during a visit of volunteers as part of the "Old Age for Joy" charity project.
May 30, 2020 Dispatches

People in Institutions in Brazil at Risk from Covid-19

New Regulation Important Step Towards Better Rights Protection

A psychiatric ward in an institution in Rio de Janeiro. Residents of most institutions in Brazil live in depersonalized conditions, have few if any personal belongings, and have little or no privacy.
May 29, 2020 Dispatches

Ending Hungary’s State of Emergency Won’t End Authoritarianism

Bill Would Perpetuate Rule by Decree

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, center, his deputy Zsolt Semjen and other government members and MPs of the governing Fidesz party vote on a draft law concerning extraordinary measures during the plenary session of Parliament in Budapest, Hungary,

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