March 24 - March 30, 2025: Week in Review

March 31, 2025

Read our latest publications

Big Tech’s Shift to the Right by Suyash Pasi, MA

The Scandal of a Slave Market in Libya by Zeinab Abulhul

Tracking Women's Rights in Rwanda: A History of Progress? by Nelson Kalberer

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Observances

March 25th - International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

March 25th - International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members

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HRRC News Briefs

Enforced Disappearance of Activist Idrissa Barry in Burkina Faso: A Human Rights Concern by Aamnah Fatima Khan

The fight to protect the indigenous inhabitants of Ecuador by Peter Clarkin, MA

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Other Breaking Human Rights News

March 24, 2025

UN agency warns of ‘surge’ in AIDS deaths without US funding (UN News)

Turkey detains journalists as protests grow over the jailing of key Erdogan rival (PBS News)

Brazil apologizes to families of victims of military dictatorship's mass grave (NPR News)

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March 25, 2025

What do the Trump administration’s sanctions on the ICC mean for justice and human rights? (Amnesty International)

Migrant deaths in Asia hit record high in 2024, UN data reveals (UN News)

Climate change: Peru's melting glaciers contaminate water supply (France 24)

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March 26, 2025

Georgia: Drop Repressive ‘Foreign Agents’ Bill (Human Rights Watch)

Unlawful Expulsions to El Salvador Endanger Lives Amid Ongoing State of Emergency (Amnesty International)

Stranded: The Trump-induced migration crisis in Mexico (The New Humanitarian)

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March 27, 2025

Human rights groups rebuke Kristi Noem’s visit to El Salvador prison: ‘political theater’ (The Guardian)

UN rights body sounds the alarm over South Sudan crisis (UN News)

Poland suspends migrants' right to apply for asylum (BBC News)

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March 28, 2025

Gaza: Deep concerns about the forced displacement of Palestinians (OHCHR)

U.N. warns of 'severe' human rights abuses in Haiti as illegal weapons proliferate (NBC News)

As protections expire, Ukrainians who escaped war face an uncertain future (NPR)

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March 29, 2025

‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish (The Guardian)

Myanmar quake death toll rises to 1,644 as resistance movement announces partial ceasefire (KSL)

Hamas says it agrees to new Gaza ceasefire proposal, but Israel makes counteroffer (CBS News)

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March 30, 2025

Martinique's water woes drive anger at French rule (Reuters)

Palestine Red Crescent says 14 bodies found in search for missing Gaza crew (Al Jazeera)

Turkey arrests Swedish journalist over alleged terrorist connections to a pro-Kurdish group (ABC News)

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