July 7-13, 2025: Week in Review

July 14, 2025

Explore Our Latest Publications

A Procedure Gone Wrong: A Brief History of Lobotomies in the United States by Esther Annorzie

The Inequities in Food Assistance Programs in Puerto Rico by Gabrielle Meyers, MPP

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: A National Human Rights Crisis in Canada by Suriya Ragu

Algorithmic Silence: China’s Stance on LGBTQ+ Rights Through DeepSeek by Vivian Sun

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HRRC News Briefs

Detained and Tortured: Bengali-Speaking Muslim Migrant Workers Targeted by Delhi Police by Aamnah Fatima Khan

Serbian Police Crack Down on Latest Anti-Government Protests by Vera Rousseff

Alarm raised by withdrawals from anti-personnel mine treaty by Peter Clarkin, MA

Declining press freedom in the U.S. is accompanied by alarming attacks on journalists covering protests by Devin Windelspecht, MSc

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Other Breaking Human Rights News

July 7, 2025

UN warns of worsening humanitarian crisis in Sudan as displacement, hunger and disease escalate (UN News)

Kenya anti-government protests leave 11 dead and dozens injured; police open fire (Reuters)

Held migrants deprived of medicines, report says (BBC News)

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July 8, 2025

As US abruptly ends support, Liberia faces empty health clinics and unplanned pregnancies (AP News)

Srebrenica, 30 years on: UN officials and survivors call for truth, justice and vigilance (UN News)

ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over persecution of women (Reuters)

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July 9, 2025

US sanctions UN rights expert for Palestinian territories (France 24)

Greece suspends asylum applications for migrants from North Africa (BBC News)

European court finds Russia committed violations in Ukraine and was behind downing Flight MH17 (AP News)

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July 10, 2025

Critics slam Mexico’s gentrification protests as xenophobic. Activists say they’re fighting for their human rights (CNN)

EU outlines options for political action against Israel on human rights (Reuters)

German foreign minister expresses concern about human rights under Taliban (Reuters)

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July 11, 2025

New amnesty law for human rights abuses in Peru prompts fury, action (Al Jazeera)

US sanctions Cuban president for 'involvement in human rights violations,' four years after anti-government protests (Le Monde)

‘An unending horror story’: Gangs and human rights abuses expand in Haiti (UN News)

Kidneys for cash: Inside Kenya's organ-trafficking network (France 24)

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July 12, 2025

Search for justice continues for Argentina’s disappeared, nearly 50 years later (PBS News)

Islamic State-aligned rebels kill 66 civilians in eastern Congo (AP News)

Judge bars Trump administration from 'indiscriminately' detaining immigrants (BBC News)

Sand, dust storms affect about 330 million people due to climate change: UN (Al Jazeera)

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July 13, 2025

Israeli strikes kill at least 32 in Gaza as Palestinian war deaths top 58,000 (AP News)

'Surviving the heat': Navajo Nation's long struggle for electricity (France 24)

Feminist icon Gisele Pelicot awarded France’s top civic honour (Al Jazerra)

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