April 28, 2025 - May 4, 2025: Week in Review

May 5, 2025

Read our latest publications

Gutting Global and Local Outbreak Response Threatens Us All by Sylvia He, PhD & MBA

Bridging the Divide: The Competing Priorities of Human Rights Advocates and Conflict Resolution Practitioners by Cynthia Egole

Sanctuary within the Context of Immigration Law Enforcement by Mary D'Alleva, MA & MFA

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HRRC News Briefs

Deadly insurgent attacks kill novice Monk, exposing deepening human rights crisis in Southern Thailand by Aamnah Fatima Khan

Bulgaria ignores European Court of Human Rights' order and demolishes Roma houses by Peter Clarkin, MA

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Other Breaking Human Rights News

April 28, 2025

Houthi rebels allege U.S. airstrike that hit Yemen prison holding African migrants kills at least 68 (PBS)

Human Rights Groups Urge United Nations Racial Justice Body to Address Legal Barriers for Victims of Police Violence (RFK Human Rights)

Amnesty International Warns of Global Human Rights Crisis as ‘Trump Effect’ Accelerates Destructive Trends (Amnesty International)

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April 29, 2025

Dachau's memorial marks 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp (NPR)

Türk calls on world to prevent total humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza (UN News)

UK’s first trans judge appeals to European court of human rights over supreme court ruling (The Guardian)

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April 30, 2025

The U.S. backs Israel's ban on the U.N.'s Palestinian aid agency at the World Court (NPR)

South Africa to review claims past ANC governments impeded apartheid crimes investigations (The Guardian)

Trump's first 100 days target diversity policies, civil rights protections (Reuters)

Venezuela: Brutal Crackdown Since Elections (Human Rights Watch)

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May 1, 2025

Democrats push for US human rights review in El Salvador (Reuters)

Human rights commission urges monitoring of Brazil’s flood recovery efforts (AP News)

Afghanistan: Taliban restrictions on women’s rights intensify (UN News)

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May 2, 2025

Int’l Human Rights Body Rules on US Case of Migrant That Was Tortured, Killed (Truthout)

Activists say ship aiming to sail to Gaza was attacked by drones (BBC News)

Freedom Flotilla accuses Israel of alleged drone attack on Gaza aid ship (Al Jazeera)

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May 3, 2025

At least 57 Palestinians starved to death under Israel’s blockade of Gaza (Al Jazeera)

‘A cocktail for a misinformed world’: why China and Russia are cheering Trump’s attacks on media (The Guardian)

What happens with US citizen children caught up in Trump’s deportation push (CNN)

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May 4, 2025

Kenneth Roth, former head of HRW: 'Human rights can be defended without the United States' (Le Monde)

Missile fired by Yemen's Houthis lands near Israel's main airport (Reuters)

Paramilitaries strike Port Sudan for first time, army says (BBC News)

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