May 12, 2025 - May 18, 2025: Week in Review

May 19, 2025

Explore Our Latest Publications

Indigenous Survival in the Face of Environmental Damage

Sub-Saharan Africa's Hidden Oppression: Addressing Discrimination Against People with Ablinism by Esther Annorzie

Barriers to Justice: Women’s Struggle for Divorce Rights in China by Yage Huang, SJD

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HRRC News Briefs

Council of Europe Urges Greece to End Pushbacks of Migrants and Ensure Accountability by Aamnah Fatima Khan

Finland to launch pilot programme supporting human rights defenders by Peter Clarkin, MA

As Azerbaijan ramps up attacks on journalists, former VOA reporter is arrested by Devin Windelspecht, MSc

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Other Breaking Human Rights News

May 12, 2025

Burkina Faso forces killed at least 100 civilians in a March attack, Human Rights Watch says (AP News)

Museum opens in Czech Republic at site where Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews (NPR)

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May 13, 2025

Uganda: Mothers defy anti-gay law to support children (Deutsche Welle)

UK High Court hears challenge to British government’s role arming Israel (AP News)

White House welcomes Afrikaners to the U.S., but drops protection for Afghan allies (NPR)

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May 14, 2025

Human rights groups warn of 'surge' in migrant worker deaths in Saudi Arabia (BBC News)

EPA rolls back Biden-era rules against ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water (PBS News)

Venezuelans in El Salvador prison plead for freedom in video (Reuters)

Sri Lanka: How period poverty keeps girls out of school (Deutsche Welle)

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May 15, 2025

US Senate Republicans reject bid to probe human rights in El Salvador (Reuters)

North Korea defectors in SK public sector at record high (BBC News)

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May 16, 2025

Military commanders told to identify troops for medical checks under Trump administration’s transgender ban (PBS News)

Global hunger hits new high amid conflict, extreme weather: UN (Al Jazeera)

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May 17, 2025

The largely forgotten history of Philadelphia’s police bombing of Black organization MOVE (PBS News)

Hungary's Orban plans 'transparency law' to muzzle critics (Deutsche Welle)

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May 18, 2025

Rights under constant attack in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan (Deutsche Welle)

Could AI help elderly people and refugees reconstruct unrecorded pasts? (Al Jazeera)

Airstrikes kill at least 103 people as Israel launches ‘extensive’ new ground offensive in Gaza (PBS News)

Hundreds of Rwandans who fled to Congo after the 1994 genocide return home (NPR)

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