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  1. 3 minutes ago

    Documenting violence in Guinea during a pandemic. How to keep people safe in the run-up to presidential elections in October? Read this interview with our researcher :

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  2. 12 minutes ago

    Guinea’s security forces failed to protect people from election-related and intercommunal violence and committed human rights abuses in Nzérékoré, southeastern Guinea, during legislative elections and a constitutional referendum in March. New report:

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  3. 4 hours ago

    Hong Kong: Stop Prosecuting Pro-Democracy Activists

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    11 hours ago

    "As authorities separated 1000s of children from their parents,...and warehoused immigrants in fetid facilities where 6 children died in less than a year, they also consolidated a powerful & dangerous domestic surveillance dragnet."

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    10 hours ago

    The public always has a right to know how its money is spent, but esp during a pandemic, when can be life or death. English trans of oped on Cameroon secrecy in face of public solidarity & transparency commitments to IMF 🙏 to

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  6. 10 hours ago

    Cuba’s Government Throws Its Repressive Playbook at a Journalist

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    12 hours ago

    🇨🇲: This week a military court handed down a sentence to the soldiers who killed 2women & 2children in , but there’s another key sentence which didn’t make it to the headlines & deserves attention: that of the 10 separatist leaders. A thread on that. 1/7

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    Sep 23

    The Canadian connection to riot suppression in Belarus /via

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  9. 12 hours ago

    US: Officials’ Pandemic Response Impaired Right to Vote Lessons From 4 State Primaries Should Guide General Election Reforms

    US: Officials’ Pandemic Response Impaired Right to Vote
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    Sep 23

    BREAKING: Brazil meat-packer JBS pledges to end suppliers, including indirect suppliers, linked to deforestation. They say they'll get there by 2025. But they're just kicking the can down the road: JBS has known about these issues since at least 2009

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    12 hours ago

    More than 20 human rights ORGs, including Human Rights Watch call on Council to help bridge Yemen’s ‘Acute Accountability Gap’

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    14 hours ago

    HUGE endorsement from the supporting the passage of , federal study. Michael Thomas of leads efforts to . Reparations Now! . See: (Photo Credit: Leah Stauffer / )

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    15 hours ago

    .'s new report documents a litany of abuses in including unlawful killings; enforced disappearances; torture, ill-treatment; rape & other sexual violence; arbitrary detention; forced labor & exploitation in a climate of near-total impunity.

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    Sep 23

    Parliament in the Australian state of Victoria should reject a new attempt to broaden police powers. Police have used harsh measures during the Covid-19 lockdown that threaten basic rights. New from

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    16 hours ago

    Harry Evans taught us what journalism at its best can achieve - 's must-read obit, including the advice: “Things are not what they seem on the surface. Dig deeper, dig deeper, dig deeper.” And: “Just find out what the bloody facts are"

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    15 hours ago

    . data show 1million fewer people w health insurance in 2019 than 2018. In 2020, due to related job losses 5.4 million workers lost insurance between Feb-May. calls on Congress to ensure comprehensive health coverage for everyone

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    15 hours ago

    . on push for states to cherry pick which human rights they like & ignore ones they don't. Comments from me & . I note that endorsers of Pompeo plan include top rights abusers like .

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    17 hours ago

    That's the thing about extremist, hate-mongering politicians: whatever you offer them, it's never enough. They always want more. Appeasement never works. It would be great if the EU & the enablers of Orbán's dictatorship would one day learn this most basic of lessons.

    Hungary's Orban says 'no breakthrough' in EU migrant plan, tougher new asylum rules do not go far enough
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    17 hours ago

    Great to see raised so many important issues during Dialogue with today, including increased of domestic violence during , new worrying draft laws on trade unions, NGOs, criminal procedure. Strong follow-up needed.

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    17 hours ago

    “Downward spiral for in ” continues as young democracy icon Joshua Wong arrested on “unauthorized assembly”+“violating anti-mask law.” Statement from Human Rights Watch in image below.

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