January 13 - 19, 2025: Week in Review

January 20, 2025

Read our latest publications

Deforestation in the Amazon Part I: The Economic Effect on Brazil’s Urban Development by Megan Ryan

Natural Disasters and Human Trafficking in the U.S. by Danielle Castano, MA

Forced Organ Harvesting: Another Chinese Communist Party's Means to Target Minorities and Dissidents by Xun Jia

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Observances

January 14 - Ratification Day

January 16 - National Religious Freedom Day

January 18 - Post‑World War I peace conference begins in Paris

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Other Breaking Human Rights News

January 13, 2025

Georgia: Authorities using draconian new laws to crack down on dissent (Amnesty International)

Nigeria: Farmers killed in suspected Boko Haram attack (DW)

Amazon removes 'equity for Black people' and 'LGBTQ+ rights' from company policies (The Advocate)

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January 14, 2025

Hamas accepted draft agreement for Gaza ceasefire and release of hostages, officials say (SCMP)

US: UN rights expert welcomes court ruling reaffirming sex-based protections in education (UN News)

Haiti Displacement Triples Surpassing One Million as Humanitarian Crisis Worsens (IOM)

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January 15, 2025

Health Disinformation Grows in Latin America (Think Global Health)

UN rights chief in historic meeting in Syria’s with caretaker authority in Damascus (UN News)

Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza (Reuters)

Hong Kong minister defends failed legal bids challenging LGBTQ rights (SCMP)

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January 16, 2025

Human Rights Watch chief says Trump's return threatens freedoms (Reuters)

2024 witnessed ‘absolute failure’ of west to lead fight for human rights, says watchdog (The Guardian)

Egypt: Prominent human rights defender Hossam Bahgat summoned for interrogations (Amnesty International)

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January 17, 2025

Border app that became ‘a salvation’ for migrants to legally enter the US may end (AP News)

No plan to deport Uyghurs to China, Phumtham says amid pressure on govt (Nation Thailand)

Vietnam punishes social media poster for complaining about traffic rules (Radio Free Asia)

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January 18, 2025

‘Without journalism you have no democracy’: Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa’s warning (MSNBC)

In Lebanon, these Palestinian refugees sew designs from a homeland they've never seen (NPR)

Journalists in Haiti demand justice as they bury a second colleague killed by gangs (AP News)

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January 19, 2025

An imprisoned Nobel laureate underscores human rights abuses in Belarus (AP News)

‘The discourse is chilling’: aid groups on US-Mexico border prepare for Trump (The Guardian)

Hamas releases first three Israeli captives as Gaza ceasefire takes hold (Al Jazeera)

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