August 4-10, 2025: Week in Review

August 11, 2025

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From Heroes to Outcasts: Libya's Disregard for Revolutionary Women by Zeinab Abulhul, PhD

Bukan Salah Siapa? Deaths in Custody and Malaysia’s Systemic Failure to Protect the Right to Life by Sarisha Harikrishna

How Income Disparities in America Influence Health Outcomes by Autumn Price

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HRRC News Briefs

Civilians Under Fire: Human Rights Violations Mount in Thailand-Cambodia Border Conflict by Aamnah Fatima Khan

New UN Report Highlights Dire Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti by Vera Rousseff

Amnesty International Blames X’s Algorithm for Amplifying Hate and Fueling UK Riots After Southport Attack by Aamnah Fatima Khan

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Other Breaking Human Rights News

August 4, 2025

Funding for refugees in Uganda will run out next month, UN warns (Reuters)

Thailand, Cambodia officials meet in Malaysia to cement ceasefire details (Al Jazeera)

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August 5, 2025

Bangladesh faces political unrest and uncertainty a year after leader’s resignation (PBS News)

UN says nearly 60,000 displaced by heavy fighting in northern Mozambique (Al Jazeera)

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August 6, 2025

60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats (NPR)

Mexico, Dominican Republic propose joint efforts to fight sargassum seaweed (Reuters)

A "political blackmail" – the EU Parliament is pressing for new mandatory scanning of your private chats (TechRadar)

More than 100 human rights abuses discovered in immigration detention since Trump took office, senate probe says (The Independent)

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August 7, 2025

Haiti inaugurates new leadership as gangs threaten to overthrow the government (NPR)

July was Earth’s third-warmest on record, EU scientists say (PBS News)

Report: U.S. Plans to Weaken Criticism of Human Rights Abuses in El Salvador, Israel and Russia (Democracy Now)

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August 8, 2025

ICC issues arrest warrant for Libyan war crimes suspect (Reuters)

5 years after protests in Belarus: Have things changed? (Deutsche Welle)

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August 9, 2025

Nagasaki marks 80 years since U.S. atomic bombing as survivors place hopes of nuclear ban in hands of youth (PBS News)

Australia, Canada, UK urge Belarus to end 'campaign of repression' (Reuters)

‘Attack on people’s memory’: Kashmir’s book ban sparks new censorship fears (Al Jazeera)

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August 10, 2025

Netanyahu defends Israel's plan to seize Gaza City, despite global condemnation (NPR)

Exclusive: Fistful of dollars and rice for Vietnam farmers displaced for $1.5 billion Trump golf club (Reuters)

Pakistan's transgender community lives in fear (Deutsche Welle)

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