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March 6-12, 2023: Week in Review

March 13, 2023


Publications


This International Women’s Day, Let’s Commit to Fighting Online Gender Based Violence


By Lauren Salim


 

News Highlights


March 7, 2023 - Legislators Urged to Act on Political Freedom Concerns in Bahrain


March 8, 2023 - Inter-American Court Recognizes Gender-Based Violence During Pregnancy and Childbirth


March 10, 2023 - Afghan and Iranian Women Call for Recognition of Gender Apartheid Under International Law

 

Other Notable Stories

 

March 6, 2023



‘Hope is rare now in Myanmar’, UN Human Rights Council hears



By UN News


 

March 6, 2023




The anti-drag bills sweeping the U.S. are straight from history's playbook




By Manuela Lopez Restrepo, NPR

 

March 7, 2023



South Sudan: UN Human Rights Council should maintain efforts to challenge impunity continuing to fuel grave abuses



By Human Rights Watch

 

March 7, 2023


UN refugee agency ‘profoundly concerned’ by UK’s illegal migration bill saying it amounts to an asylum ban – as it happened


By Tom Bryant, Tom Ambrose and Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian

 

March 7, 2023



Rishi Sunak ‘extinguishing the right to seek refugee protection in UK’



By Rajeev Syal and Kiran Stacey, The Guardian

 

March 8, 2023


US sanctions top Iranian officials over ‘serious’ human rights abuses against women and girls in prisons


By Sam Fossum, CNN


 

March 9, 2023



Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Hear Testimony Friday on Abuses at U.S. Factory Farms



By EarthJustice


 

March 9, 2023



Georgian ruling party drops 'foreign agents' bill, protesters remain



By Felix Light, Reuters


 

March 10, 2023



Bahrain revokes Human Rights Watch parliament conference visas



By Al Jazeera

 

March 12, 2023



Israel sees one of its biggest-ever protests



By George Wright, BBC News

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