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   April 9, 2019 Report

   Equatorial Guinea: UN Review Should Highlight Abuses

   Critics Intimidated, Arbitrarily Detained, Beaten

   Español Français April 9, 2019 Video Equatorial Guinea: UN Review Should Highlight Abuses Governments should use an upcoming United Nations review of Equatorial Guinea’s rights record to question the country’s brutal repression of human rights defenders, the political opposition, and others who ...

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   April 9, 2019 News Release

   US: Don’t Green Light Egypt’s Repression

   Congress Should Act to Uphold Law

   Expand President Donald Trump shakes hands with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. © 2017 AP Images © 2017 AP Images (Beirut) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s visit to the White House on April 9, 2019 comes at a time when his ...

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   April 9, 2019 Commentary

   Ethiopia: Abiy’s First Year as Prime Minister, Review of Conflict and Internally Displaced Persons

   Expand Displaced Gedeo people wait in line with their containers looking for water at Kercha site, West Guji, on August 1, 2018.  © AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene One year ago this month, Dr. Abiy Ahmed was sworn in as prime minister of Ethiopia. His first few months in office saw many positive human ...

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   April 9, 2019 News Release

   Sudan: Protesters Killed, Injured

   Stop Lethal and Excessive Force Against Peaceful Demonstrators

   Expand Protesters rally in front of the military headquarters in the capital Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, April 8, 2019.  © 2019 AP Photo   (Nairobi) – Security forces in Sudan reportedly killed at least eight protesters from April 6-8, 2019 and injured dozens during lethal attempts to disperse ...

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   April 3, 2019 News Release

   Brunei: New Penal Code Imposes Maiming, Stoning

   Immediately Suspend Highly Abusive Law

   Expand The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah listens during the first executive session of the CHOGM summit at Lancaster House in London, Thursday, April 19, 2018.  © 2019 AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth (Kuala Lumpur) – The  Brunei  government’s introduction of a new Sharia penal code poses grave ...

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   April 8, 2019 Dispatches

   Cameroon Tightens Screws on Opposition

   Government Checks Rights to Assemble, Bans Opposition Demonstrations

   Français Expand Cameroonian opposition leader Maurice Kamto was arrested in Douala on January 28, 2019 for what appears to be politically motivated reasons. © 2018 PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Image In a crackdown on both the opposition and the right to assemble, Cameroonian authorities have banned a ...

7. April 8, 2019 Commentary

   We’re Calling on Booker, Menendez to do what Trump won’t do when Egypt’s President Visits

   Expand U.S. President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi walk the colonnade at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 3, 2017.  © 2017 Reuters On Nov. 9, 2016, the day after the U.S. election, President-elect Donald Trump reportedly received his first congratulations from ...

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   April 8, 2019 Commentary

   Ethiopia’s Transition to Democracy Has Hit a Rough Patch. It Needs Support From Abroad

   Expand Abiy Ahmed, left, the newly elected chair of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) addresses Ethiopian lawmakers after he was sworn in as the country's Prime Minister, Monday, April 2, 2018. © AP photo/Mulugeta Ayene The ascent of Dr. Abiy Ahmed to the post ...

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   South Africa

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    March 14, 2019 Report

    “On the Margins”

    Education for Children with Disabilities in Kazakhstan

    Language English Русский   Summary Kazakhstan is prioritizing investments in the development of education as a key aspect for developing a strong human capital. However, children with disabilities are left behind in those efforts.--Catalina Devandas Aguilar, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right of ...

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    April 8, 2019 Dispatches

    Tanzanian Journalist’s Disappearance Remains Unsolved

    More Than Two Years Later, #WhereIsAzory? Deserves an Answer

    Français Expand Azory Gwanda.  © Mwananchi Publications Limited It has been more than 500 days since Azory Gwanda, a journalist for the privately-owned media company Mwananchi Communications, went missing under murky circumstances in Tanzania. The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling on the ...

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    April 8, 2019 Commentary

    Ethiopia: Abiy’s First Year as Prime Minister, Review of Accountability and Justice

    Expand Members of the army and riot police attempt to control protestors from the capital and those displaced by ethnic-based violence over the weekend in Burayu, as they demonstrate to demand justice from the government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. © AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene One ...

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    April 8, 2019 Dispatches

    Wounds of Garissa Attack, Four Years On

    Kenya Should Review Counter-Terror Tactics to Address Abuse

    Expand A Kenya Defense Force soldier stops women from moving in the direction where attackers who killed at least 147 people are holding up at a campus in Garissa on April 2, 2015. © 2015 Reuters Four years ago this month, gunmen attacked Kenya’s Garissa University, killing at least 147 people, ...

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    April 4, 2019 Video

    Venezuela: More Aid is Needed in Humanitarian Crisis

    Français Español Portuguese, International Language English (Washington, DC, April 4, 2019) – The combination of severe medicine and food shortages within Venezuela, together with the spread of disease across the country’s borders, amounts to a complex humanitarian emergency that requires a full ...

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    April 7, 2019 Commentary

    More Must be Done to Protect Academic Freedoms Under Threat from China

    Expand Then Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping makes a speech at the opening of Australia's first Chinese Medicine Confucius Institute, at the RMIT University in Melbourne on June 20, 2010.  © 2010 WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images There’s been a vigorous debate of late in Australia about the ...

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    April 7, 2019 Commentary

    Football leaders stand by as human rights abuses pile up

    Expand Iranian President Hassan Rouhani receiving a present from FIFA president Gianni Infantino during their meeting at the presidential office in Tehran, Iran, on March 1 2018.  © 2018 Handout photo, Iranian Presidential Office Asian football is in a crisis. That’s because the leaders of the ...

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    April 7, 2019 Commentary

    Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

    Trending rights tweets this week: The Sultan of Brunei unleashed a new penal code that is barbaric to the core; Slovakia elected a new president, she ran on some key rights issues; Venezuela is facing a complex humanitarian emergency; and attacks by white extremists are growing, as well as their ...

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    April 7, 2019 Commentary

    Ethiopia: Abiy’s First Year as Prime Minister, Review of Democratic Institutions and Political Space

    Expand Abiy Ahmed, left, the newly elected chair of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) addresses Ethiopian lawmakers after he was sworn in as the country's Prime Minister, Monday, April 2, 2018. © AP photo/Mulugeta Ayene One year ago this month, Dr. Abiy Ahmed ...

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    April 2, 2019 Video

    Rwanda: 25 Years After the Genocide

    Français Language English 25 years ago, more than half a million people were killed in just 100 days during the Rwandan genocide. During the Rwandan genocide of 1994, Hutu extremists set out to destroy the Tutsi minority with systematic brutality. The international community stood by. Today we ...

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    April 6, 2019 Commentary

    Ethiopia: Abiy’s First Year as Prime Minister, Review of Commitments to International Human Rights Norms

    Expand Delegates arrive for the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, February 27, 2017. © 2017 Reuters One year ago this month, Dr. Abiy Ahmed was sworn in as prime minister of Ethiopia. His first few months in office saw many positive human rights reforms and a ...

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