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Middle East/North Africa

April 6, 2020 News Release

US: Ease Sanctions on Iran in COVID-19 Crisis
Americas

April 2, 2020 News Release

Latin America: Cut Prison Crowding to Fight COVID-19
Middle East/North Africa

April 2, 2020 Report

Lebanon: Refugees at Risk in COVID-19 Response

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October 7, 2019 Video

Afghanistan: Little Help for Conflict-Linked Trauma
November 28, 2018 Video

Video: Black Women are Dying From Cervical Cancer in Alabama
November 20, 2018 Video

US: HIV Care Lacking for Transgender Women in South Florida

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April 2, 2020

Lebanon: Refugees at Risk in COVID-19 Response

Discrimination Risks Harming Syrians, Lebanese Alike
December 10, 2019

Lebanon: Hospital Crisis Endangering Health

Government Should Make Payments, Address Dollar Shortage
October 29, 2019

“Maximum Pressure”

US Economic Sanctions Harm Iranians’ Right to Health

News

April 2, 2020 News Release

Qatar: Protect Migrant Workers During Pandemic
March 30, 2020 News Release

Thailand: COVID-19 Rumors Trigger Prison Riot
March 30, 2020 Dispatches

A Deadly Lack of Affordable COVID-19 Treatment in the US

Komala Ramachandra
Senior Researcher, Business and Human Rights
March 30, 2020 News Release

Afghanistan: Leaders Bicker Amid COVID-19 Crisis
March 29, 2020 News Release

Libya: Detainees at Risk of Coronavirus Spread
March 27, 2020 News Release

India: COVID-19 Lockdown Puts Poor at Risk
March 25, 2020 News Release

Thailand: COVID-19 Clampdown on Free Speech
March 24, 2020 News Release

Cambodia: COVID-19 Clampdown on Free Speech
March 24, 2020 News Release

Malaysia: Migrants, Stateless at Extra Risk from Virus
March 20, 2020 News Release

Egypt: Four Arrested Over COVID-19 Protest
March 20, 2020 News Release

Jordan: State of Emergency Declared
March 19, 2020 News Release

UAE: Prisoners with HIV Vulnerable to Coronavirus

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Coronavirus Is the "New Terrorism": Daily Brief

Daily Brief

Coronavirus is the "new terrorism"; Asia's overcrowded prisons at grave risk of COVID-19 outbreaks; rights risks to older people in coronavirus response; no "social distancing" possible for refugees crammed into camps in Greece; Gulf countries to put a hold on deportations; concerns over South Africa's response; Afghanistan should prosecute head of ISIS-linked group for war crimes; the UN fails to name Russia for bombings in Syria; and is Europe finally seeing some light at the end of the dark pandemic tunnel?