A new opportunity for the EU to rediscover its democratic values; Turkish spies abducting political opponents abroad; IMF Executive Board should ensure Cameroon loan used to meet rights obligations; Ghana’s attorney general targeting  human rights defenders; Burundi’s new president, one year on; an "extraordinary admission" in North Korea; US Supreme Court declines to give religious agencies sweeping license to discriminate against LGBT people; how to organize and support southern, rural Black women in the US; and World Refugee Day.

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European Union affairs ministers meeting next week should put the governments of Hungary and Poland on notice that there is no place for attacks on the rule of law in the EU and step up scrutiny of their human rights-abusive policies, six leading human rights groups said today.

Turkish spies are abducting political opponents abroad.

The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Executive Board should ensure that a three-year loan sought by Cameroon is used to meet its human rights obligations and not lost to corruption.

Ghana’s attorney general should drop charges against 21 human rights defenders who face ongoing judicial harassment after attending a paralegal training session.

One year after Évariste Ndayishimiye was inaugurated as Burundi’s new president, many of the ex-general’s promises to hold people to account for violence and killings and to improve the country’s dismal human rights situation remain unfulfilled

Kim Jong Un made an extraordinary admission this week about North Korea’s food crisis, warning the situation is “getting tense,” in part as a result of damage from typhoons and floods last year. But what's behind his move?

In a highly-anticipated ruling yesterday, the US Supreme Court refrained from granting a sweeping license to discriminate. But the case illustrates why the US needs robust anti-discrimination protections for taxpayer-funded services.

Tomorrow is Juneteenth, the day honoring the declaration abolishing slavery in the US. Take a moment to read this new interview on how activists are organizing and supporting southern, rural Black women today.

And it's World Refugee Day on Sunday!

 

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