July 29 - August 4, 2024: Week in Review
- Human Rights Research Center
- Aug 5, 2024
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August 5, 2024
Read our latest publications:
Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: Part Two by Dr. Begüm Burak
UK Asylum Policy and the Dangers of Securitization by Gabriel Pryce
International Observances
July 30, 2024 - World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
August 2, 2024 - Roma Genocide Remembrance Day
News Briefs
July 29, 2024 - UN Demands Answers as Nearly 200 Protestors Killed in Bangladesh
August 2, 2024 - UN Reports on Israeli Detention and Torture of Palestinians
Other Breaking Human Rights News
July 29, 2024
Women and girls in Sudan subjected to widespread sexual violence by warring parties (Christian Edwards, CNN)
Ghana: Supreme Court Upholds Colonial-Era Anti-LGBT Law (Human Rights Watch)
July 30, 2024
International Human Rights Commission Condemns ‘Fortress Conservation’ (Katie Surma, Inside Climate News)
Venezuela's Maduro threatens reprisals as disputed election protests become deadly (Carrie Kahn & John Otis, NPR)
How a Sugar Industry Stamp of Approval Hid Coerced Hysterectomies (The New York Times)
July 31, 2024
Tanzania forcibly relocating Indigenous Maasai (Al Jazeera)
Guinea court sentences former junta leader to 20 years in prison over 2009 stadium massacre (Boubacar Diallo, AP News)
August 1, 2024
Security forces fire tear gas as anti-government protests break out across Nigeria (Chinrfu Asadu & Taiwo Adebayo, AP News)
Saudi Arabia bid for the 2034 FIFA World Cup whitewashes human rights record while joint bid for 2030 leaves key gaps (Amnesty International)
August 2, 2024
Knowledge of the Roma genocide is vital to overcome prejudice and strengthen our democracies, OSCE human rights office says (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe)
Things to know about the largest US-Russia prisoner swap in post-Soviet history (Eric Tucker, AP News)
August 3, 2024
Why are Nigerians protesting? Young people were roused by events in Kenya (Eromo Egbejule, The Guardian)
Gambia may have upheld its ban on female cutting, but the fight goes on away from parliament (Monika Pronczuk, AP News
August 4, 2024
Tanzania wants to evict Maasai for wildlife – but they’re fighting back (Shola Lawal, Al Jazeera)
Rioters attack hotels used to house asylum seekers amid worst UK disorder in years (Radina Gigova, Duarte Mendonca, Mia Alberti and Sophie Tanno, CNN News)
