June 9 - 15, 2025: Week in Review

June 16, 2025

Explore Our Latest Publications

Manufacturing the Migrant Threat: Race, Politics, and Human Rights by Olivia Weninger

The Decline of Mainstream Media and the Right to Information by Suyash Pasi, MA

Coding Caste: Tech Elites, Dalit Exclusion, and the Myth of Meritocracy in the Indian Diaspora by Sarisha Harikrishna

Invisible Scars, Global Patterns: A Visual Report on Gender-Based Violence Against Women by Ivan Francis, MS

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HRRC News Briefs

Sweden Urged to End International Adoptions Amid Decades of Child Trafficking and Fraud by Aamnah Fatima Khan

Cameroon Tops List of World’s Most Neglected Displacement Crises of 2024 by Vera Rousseff

The forced labour driving India's economic dream by Peter Clarkin, MA

In Europe, June Pride continues under patchwork of rights for LGBTQ+ people – with one exception. by Devin Windelspecht, MSc

International Labour Organization Condemns Myanmar's Junta for Violation of Workers' Rights by Aamnah Fatima Khan

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Other Breaking Human Rights News

June 9, 2025

Israel Intercepts Gaza-Bound Aid Vessel (The New York Times)

What is happening in Los Angeles is not law enforcement, it’s occupation - Opinion (Al Jazeera)

RFK Jr. boots all members of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee (NPR)

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June 10, 2025

Mahrang Baloch Writes From Prison: ‘Speaking Up for Justice Is Not a Crime’ (TIME)

Toxic Thailand rivers pinned on Myanmar mines (YahooNews via AFP)

UN envoy to Myanmar warns that violence puts country on ‘path to self-destruction’ (AP News)

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June 11, 2025

UN rights chief warns of $60 million funding shortfall (Reuters)

As Trump Sets Military Against Civilians, Service Members Have Duty to Disobey (Truthout)

Governments should have called out war crimes in Gaza much earlier, says prosecutor in Milosevic trial (CNN)

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June 12, 2025

One in 67 people worldwide remains forcibly displaced: UNHCR report (Al Jazeera)

Ukrainian refugees in Sumy fear Russian advance, shelling (Reuters)

Nicaragua breaks ties with UN refugee agency (Reuters)

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June 13, 2025

At least 2,680 killed in Haiti unrest so far this year: UN (France 24)

Mpox Surges in Sierra Leone as Health Officials Appeal for U.S. Support (The New York Times)

The human suffering of Sudan's brutal civil war (CNN)

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June 14, 2025

Nigeria: Gunmen kill at least 100 in Benue state (Deutsche Welle)

At U.N. Conference, Countries Inch Toward Ocean Protection Goal (The New York Times)

10 years after the deadly church shooting, a new history of 'Mother Emanuel' (NPR)

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June 15, 2025

Hundreds reported dead as Israel and Iran trade strikes for a third day (France 24)

Volkswagen's dark history in Brazil (Deutsche Welle)

Immigration raids continue, sparking more anxiety (Los Angeles Times)

Russia returns bodies of 1,200 more Ukrainians as part of POW swap (Al Jazeera)

Photos of anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ demonstrations across the US (AP News)

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