November 17-23, 2025: Week in Review

November 23, 2025

Explore Our Latest Publications

The Exploitation of Tragedy: Examining the Laken Riley Act, Iryna’s Law, and the Racialization of Immigration in the United States by Sasha Leonard

The Separation of Church and State: Medicine and Healthcare Practices by Jasmyn J. Tang, MPH

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HRRC News Briefs

Worsening typhoons in the Philippines emphasize the increasingly exacerbated damage of global warming by Erina Bazán López

Pakistan’s 27th Amendment Raises Alarming Threats to Judicial Independence and Human Rights by Aamnah Fatima Khan

Indigenous Groups and Climate Activists March Together Outside COP30 in Brazil by Vera Rousseff

Israel seeks to make “Al Jazeera Law” permanent, granting power to ban foreign media outlets by Devin Windelspecht, MSc

Hoda Abdel-Moneim receives top human rights award from the International Bar Association (IBA) by Peter Clarkin, MA

Russia Intensifies Crackdown on Jehovah’s Witnesses in Occupied Crimea and Across the Federation by Aamnah Fatima Khan

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Other Breaking Human Rights News

November 17, 2025

Government plots human rights overhaul to speed up deportations (The Independent UK)

Ecuador voters reject return of US military bases in referendum (Le Monde)

Fishermen in Ecuador Contend with Drug Gangs and U.S. Military Strikes (NPR)

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November 18, 2025

Human rights commission calls on El Salvador to protect 3 deported men it imprisoned (AP News)

Texas appeals ruling that Trump-urged voting map is racial gerrymandering (NPR)

At least 98 Palestinians died in Israeli prisons in two years, Israeli human rights group finds (CNN)

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November 19, 2025

Hasina's conviction for crimes against humanity is testing India-Bangladesh ties (BBC News)

True climate justice demands a reckoning with colonialism (Al Jazeera)

Deadly overnight attack in Ukraine condemned by senior UN officials (UN News)

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November 20, 2025

Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes in West Bank expulsions (Reuters)

More than 250 arrested in Charlotte as immigration crackdown escalates (BBC News)

UNICEF: 20% of world’s children still trapped in extreme poverty (UN News)

AI and anonymity fuel surge in digital violence against women (UN News)

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November 21, 2025

UN human rights rapporteur calls on United States to lift sanctions on Cuba (AP News)

New US rules say countries with DEI policies are infringing human rights (Reuters)

Solar-powered incubators save premature babies in Cameroon (Deutsche Welle)

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November 22, 2025

Indigenous people reflect on the meaning of their participation in COP30 climate talks (AP News)

Pope calls on kidnappers in Nigeria to free 265 students and teachers after some pupils escape (Le Monde)

Syrian refugees in Germany face pressure to return (Deutsche Welle)

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November 23, 2025

Escalating war of words between Ethiopia and Eritrea triggers fears of conflict (BBC News)

Slovenians reject in a referendum a law on assisted dying for terminally ill patients (Toronto Star)

Accused, shunned and exiled: The women banished to Ghana's 'witch camps' (Al Jazeera)

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