June 23 - 29, 2025: Week in Review

June 30, 2025

Explore Our Latest Publications

Warehouse of Souls and City Plaza: The Athenian Fight for Dignified Refuge by Madeline Carpenter

Rape in the Marital Home: Sexual Consent, Custom, and the Law in Contemporary China by Shuning Chen, MA

The Arrest That Rejuvenated The ICC by Robert Beltran, LLM

The Price of Inequality: Why Tax is a Human Rights Issue by Alexandra Hever, MA

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HRRC News Briefs

EU Review Finds Israel in Breach of Human Rights Clause in Trade Agreement by Aamnah Fatima Khan

Belarusian Dissident Freed from Jail, Others Remain Behind Bars by Vera Rousseff

Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi reveals abuse during enforced disappearance in Tanzania by Peter Clarkin, MA

Experts say that videos depicting war crimes in Mali are also war crimes by Devin Windelspecht, MSc

North Korea's Draconian Laws: Defectors Reveal Human Rights Abuses by Aamnah Fatima Khan

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Other Breaking Human Rights News

June 23, 2025

E.U.-Israeli Ties Are Further Strained by Claims of Potential Rights Violations (The New York Times)

Human Rights Council hears concerns over displacement, genocide risks and migrant trafficking (UN News)

Mideast governments condemn suicide bombing of Syrian church as death toll rises to 25 (AP News)

How covering your face became a constitutional matter: Mask debate tests free speech rights (AP News)

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June 24, 2025

The Trump administration is making an unprecedented reach for data held by states (NPR)

Under Trump, US strikes on Somalia have doubled since last year. Why? (Al Jazeera)

Over 200 foreigners rescued from scam centres still stranded along Thai-Myanmar border (Reuters)

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June 25, 2025

Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Sparks Major Concern as Construction Begins: ‘An Obscene Human Rights Violation’ (TIME)

UN Human Rights Office Calls for Action on ‘Transnational Repression’ (Human Rights Watch)

Dispatches from the living memory of trans people of color (NPR)

Kenyans take to streets a year after deadly anti-govt protests (Al Jazeera)

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June 26, 2025

Human Rights Treaty Bodies and Tax (Human Rights Watch)

Opinion: How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way (The New York Times)

Europe court condemns France over police racial profiling (France 24)

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June 27, 2025

African Human Rights court says it can hear case brought by DRC against Rwanda (Africa News)

Concerns grow over human rights breaches as Ireland ramps up deportations (Irish Examiner)

Europe: Scorching heat grips the continent (Deutsche Welle)

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June 28, 2025

Ecuador law reforms spark concern for children’s rights (Jurist News)

Iran holds first state funerals for military leaders, nuclear scientists killed in Israeli strikes (CBS News)

Hard to imagine a worse time to deport Afghan refugees, human rights advocates say (NPR)

Tens of thousands march against Hungary's government, for LGBT rights (Reuters)

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June 29, 2025

Refugees Worry: Is Nicaragua Assassinating Government Critics in Costa Rica? (The New York Times)

Sudan civil war overwhelms border town in neighbor Chad as refugees find little help (AP News)

More than 50 arrested ahead of banned Istanbul pride parade (Le Monde)

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