August 11-17, 2025: Week in Review

August 18, 2025

Explore Our Latest Publications

Revoking Visas, Silencing Dissent: How Trump's Crackdown on International Students Endangers Academic Freedom and U.S. Global Standing by Olivia Weninger

How Technology is Reshaping the Human Rights Landscape: Labor & Migration by Samina Singh

LGBTQ+ Rights in 2025: Progress and Pushback by Natalie Bello, PhD

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HRRC News Briefs

Hong Kong Expands Crackdown on Overseas Activists, Faces Global Condemnation by Aamnah Fatima Khan

Police Raid Bookshops in Kashmir After India Imposes Book Ban by Vera Rousseff

Annual U.S. Human Rights Report silent on the right to freedom of expression by Devin Windelspecht, MSc

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Other Breaking Human Rights News

August 11, 2025

Report: Child labor used to build Russian drones (Deutsche Welle)

Mass detention of refugees will exacerbate the suffering of torture survivors (The Guardian)

UK police say more than 500 people arrested in pro-Palestinian events over weekend (NPR)

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August 12, 2025

Trump administration calls out human rights records of some nations accepting deported migrants (AP News)

Sudan’s famine worsens as civil war intensifies: ‘We have nothing to eat but animal feed’ (PBS News)

An Israeli airstrike kills a prominent Al Jazeera journalist and colleagues in Gaza (NPR)

Canada wildfire season already second worst on record as experts warn of ‘new reality’ (The Guardian)

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August 13, 2025

Germany rejects US censorship claims in human rights report (Deutsche Welle)

Costa Rica to start building massive El Salvador-inspired prison (Reuters)

Boat carrying migrants capsizes off Italy, killing at least 26 (PBS News)

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August 14, 2025

A look at how the Trump administration is changing America's focus on human rights (NPR)

Human Rights Watch says Israeli airstrike on Iranian prison was an ‘apparent war crime’ (AP News)

Germany weighs fate of Afghans in Pakistan as deportations intensify (Reuters)

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August 15, 2025

China urges Cambodia, Thailand to restore peace at border (Reuters)

On India’s Independence Day, Modi vows to punish Pakistan for future attacks (AP News)

Kosovo: Women veterans struggle for recognition (Deutsche Welle)

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August 16, 2025

US stops visitor visas for people from Gaza (Reuters)

Serbia's anti-corruption protesters clash with riot police (Deutsche Welle)

‘State-driven censorship’: new wave of book bans hits Florida school districts (The Guardian)

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August 17, 2025

Senegal’s ‘schools for husbands’ aim to shift gender roles and keep mothers from dying (AP News)

The environmental consequences of big tech’s push to ease regulations for AI development (PBS News)

‘Pray for rain’: wildfires in Canada are now burning where they never used to (The Guardian)

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