April 15 - April 21, 2024: Week in Review

April 22, 2024

Read our latest publications:

• Global Food Waste and the Right to Food by Andrea Serrano
  

• Navigating Malaysia’s Citizenship Laws from a Mother-Child Perspective by Sarisha Harikrishna
  

• The West African Coup Belt and its Waning Humanitarian Situation - Part 2 by Fahad Mirza

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HRRC News Briefs

April 19, - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Visits the Democratic Republic of the Congo

April 15, - World Leaders Advise Israel Against Retaliation for Iran's Attack

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Other Breaking Human Rights News

April 15, 2024

Nigeria: Government must halt Shell’s sale of its Niger Delta business unless human rights are fully protected (Amnesty International)

Iran's attack on Israel is a major escalation. What comes next for the region? (NPR)

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April 16, 2024

Indigenous Kalinago lead the way towards making Dominica ‘climate resilient’ (UN News)

Black immigrant rally in NYC raises awareness about racial, religious and language inequities (Cedar Attanasio, AP News)

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April 17, 2024

Syria: Mass death, torture and other violations against people detained in aftermath of Islamic State defeat – new report (Amnesty International)

Oklahoma legislative leadership introduces immigration bill, seeks to create new criminal law (Justin Allen Rose, ABC News 7 KSWO)

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April 18, 2024

Lethal heatwave in Sahel worsened by fossil fuel burning, study finds (Jonathan Watts, The Guardian)

2 people smugglers sentenced to 9 years each in Spain for drowning deaths of migrants (AP News)

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April 19, 2024

Dengue cases top 5.2 million in the Americas as outbreak passes yearly record, PAHO says (Michael Rios, CNN News)

UN rights chief urges states to act on slavery reparations (Emma Farge, Reuters)

Gambia: Bill Threatens Female Genital Mutilation Ban (Human Rights Watch)

in purple on International Women’s Day

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April 20, 2024

'My hell in Myanmar cyber slavery camp' (Suneth Perera and Issariya Praithongyaem, BBC News)

US House passes $95 billion Ukraine, Israel aid package, sends to Senate (Richard Cowan, Moira Warburton and Patricia Zengerle, Reuters)

Clashes break out at Thai-Myanmar border between soldiers, armed groups (Al Jazeera)

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April 21, 2024

Netanyahu vows to fight US sanctions on IDF unit accused of violations in West Bank (Peter Beaumont, The Guardian)

Israeli strikes on southern Gaza city of Rafah kill 22, mostly children, as US advances aid package (Mohammad Jah Jouh & Samy Magdy, AP News)

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