August 18-22, 2025: Week in Review
- Human Rights Research Center
- Aug 25
- 2 min read
August 25, 2025
Explore Our Latest Publications
Hot New Bombshells: Cluster Munitions’ Humanitarian Legacy and Impact by Abigail Stofer
Protests and Legislative Reform: An Empirical Approach to Tilly’s “WUNC” Framework by Ioana Podarita
SNAP Cuts Threaten Access to Food for Millions of Americans by Sydney Sanders
HRRC News Briefs
Venezuelan Human Rights Activist Martha Grajales Detained and Charged with Incitement to Hatred by Aamnah F. Khan
Media groups call on the U.S. government to respect press freedoms as National Guard is deployed to D.C. by Devin Windelspecht, MSc.
Other Breaking Human Rights News
August 18, 2025
Rubio takes annual human rights report to new heights of cynicism by Annelle Sheline (Responsible Statecraft)
Russian Attacks Kill 14 in Ukraine, Hours Before Zelensky Visits White House by Constant Meheut (New York Times)
August 19, 2025
State Department shifts focus to free speech for conservatives in Europe by Michele Keleman (NPR/WWNO)
US report flags “genocide and crimes against humanity” in China’s Xinjiang by Jangoulun Singsit (Yahoo Finance: Global Data)
Brazil: Protect Small-Scale Farmers’ Land Rights in the Amazon by various authors (Human Rights Watch)
August 20, 2025
Rights group urges Türkiye to release arbitrarily detained activist by Tony Xun (Jurist News)
Despite Efforts to Shift the Blame, Israeli Policies Are Starving Children by Emina Ćerimović (Human Rights Watch)
Congress Cuts Medicaid to Fund ICE: How H.R. 1 Harms Communities by Deidre Schifeling (ACLU)
August 21, 2025
Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 denies role in Congo massacres by Wilson McMakin (ABC News)
14 with ties to WA deported to ‘third countries’ and Guantánamo Bay by Nina Shapiro and Lulu Ramadan (Seattle Times)
WADPN calls on ECOWAS, governments to protect marginalised people by Gabriel Nana Asirifi (Modern Ghana)
Scores of Political Prisoners Will Be Executed in Iran Without an International Outcry by various staff (Center for Human Rights In Iran)
August 22, 2025
‘A Book-Banning Bharat Can Never Be a Vishwaguru’: Academics Body Slams Kashmir Book Ban by various authors (The Wire)
Sudan: Documentation Of Human Rights Violations Must Continue by Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab (Forbes)
Aug. 22 observance shines light on religious freedom; report editor notes worsening trend by Francesca Pollio Fenton (Catholic News Agency)
$346 mn US-Nigeria arms deal sets rights groups on edge by various staff (AFP/France 24)
