November 4 - November 10, 2024: Week in Review
- Human Rights Research Center
- Nov 11, 2024
- 2 min read
November 11, 2024
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U.S. Elections and the Right to Reproductive Healthcare by Swachita Ravi, LLM
Governance Efforts to Mitigate Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in the Age of Generative AI: Part II by Cherry Wu, MS
International Observances
November 6th - International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
News Briefs
November 4, 2024 - FBI Warning Issued Over Fake News Videos Surrounding the U.S. Presidential Election
November 6, 2024 - Dire conditions in northern Gaza ‘beyond imagination’
Other Breaking Human Rights News
November 4, 2024
Some progress but further action needed to hold China accountable for grave human rights violations (International Service for Human Rights)
Israel ends agreement with UNRWA, main provider of aid for Palestinian refugees (AP News via PBS News)
November 5, 2024
Kenya: Security Forces Abducted, Killed Protesters (Human Rights Watch)
"They're very scared": Migrants anxiously monitor U.S. election, fearing Trump win (Camilo Montoya-Galvez, Suvro Banerji, CBS News)
In bombarded northern Gaza, 'hell is boiling' for civilians who remain (Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Reuters)
November 6, 2024
Ethiopia: End the month-long arbitrary detention of thousands in Amhara Region (Amnesty International)
November 7, 2024
EU lawmakers in talks to further weaken deforestation law, document shows (Kate Abnett and Maytaal Angel, Reuters)
Spain floods: Is Europe prepared for climate change? (Al Jazeera)
COP29: Leaders must commit to fair climate financing and fully phasing out fossil fuels (Amnesty International)
November 8, 2024
Libya: Authorities must drop plans to impose compulsory veiling amid wider crackdown on ‘morality’ grounds (Amnesty International)
November 9, 2024
Hungry Palestinians in north Gaza search for food, sealed off from aid for a month by Israeli siege (Sammy Magdy and Julia Frankel, AP News)
‘It’s indescribable’: the hospital on the frontline of Haiti’s devastating gang war (Tom Phillips and Etienne Côté-Paluck, The Guardian)
Officials condemn racist text messages sent to Black residents in at least 20 states (Laura Doan, Julia Ingram, Layla Ferris, CBS News)
November 10, 2024
High Stakes Bids: Dangerously Flawed Human Rights Strategies for the 2030 and 2034 FIFA World Cups (Amnesty International)
Chinese Provincial Governments Turn to Extortion (Maya Wang, Human Rights Watch)
While many U.S. voters welcome Trump's tougher border policies, his win puts migrants on edge (Camilo Montoya-Galvez, Suvro Banerji, CBS News)
