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

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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

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Other Notable Stories

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March 6, 2023

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

By UN News

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March 6, 2023

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

By Manuela Lopez Restrepo, NPR

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March 7, 2023

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

By Human Rights Watch

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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

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March 7, 2023

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

By Rajeev Syal and Kiran Stacey, The Guardian

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March 8, 2023

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

By Sam Fossum, CNN

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March 9, 2023

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

By EarthJustice

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March 9, 2023

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

By Felix Light, Reuters

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March 10, 2023

Bahrain revokes Human Rights Watch parliament conference visas

By Al Jazeera

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March 12, 2023

Israel sees one of its biggest-ever protests

By George Wright, BBC News