October 27-November 2, 2025: Week in Review

November 3, 2025

Explore Our Latest Publications

Internet Shutdown: How Governments Weaponize Connectivity by Ivan Francis, MS

Custom, Courts, and Colonialism: The Installation of Chief Mvuthu and Gender Equality in Zimbabwe’s Traditional Leadership by Bellinda Chinowawa, LLM

Digital Bans, Surveillance and Human Rights in African Democracies by Damilola Bello

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HRRC News Briefs

Myanmar Military Continues Atrocities Against Civilians and Religious Communities by Sibusiso Gugushe

Tanzania’s 2025 Elections Overshadowed by Repression, Censorship and Systematic Rights Violations by Aamnah Fatima Khan

Nearly Two-Thirds of Children in South Sudan Engaged in Child Labor, According to New Report by Vera Rousseff

Migrant children being left unprotected by France by Peter Clarkin, MA

Humanitarian Organisations Condemn RSF’s War Crimes in el-Fasher, Call for International Intervention by Erina Bazán López

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Other Breaking Human Rights News

October 27, 2025

Gaza school children return to class after 2 years of war (Deutsche Welle)

Sudan's paramilitary forces seize El-Fasher, army's last Darfur stronghold (Le Monde)

Deadly violence in Cameroon ahead of presidential election results (Al Jazeera)

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October 28, 2025

UN human rights investigator delivers Gaza report from South Africa because of US sanctions (AP News)

BBC 'deeply concerned' about journalist unable to leave Vietnam (BBC News)

Australia's human rights commissioner 'concerned' by Nauru deportation secrecy (Reuters)

Tunisian court suspends prominent human rights groups as crackdown progresses (Toronto Star)

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October 29, 2025

Huge raid on Rio gang leaves at least 64 people dead and 81 under arrest in Brazil (NBC News)

Indonesia's arrests of activists spark alarm over democracy (Deutsche Welle)

Israel strikes Gaza arms site after deadly night of bombing leaves over 100 dead (Le Monde)

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October 30, 2025

US offers humanitarian aid to Cuba after hurricane (Reuters)

Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba take stock after Hurricane Melissa destruction (Al Jazeera)

'Can't go back' - families in violence-hit Indian state fear resettlement deadline (BBC News)

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October 31, 2025

UN human rights chief: U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats ‘unacceptable’ (PBS News)

Ukraine hands over suspected Russian war criminal to Lithuania (Reuters)

Tanzania's opposition says hundreds killed in vote violence (Deutsche Welle)

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November 1, 2025

Malala talks of PTSD therapy in new memoir (BBC News)

Men shot by the hundreds, disappeared after Sudanese city falls to paramilitaries, witnesses say (Reuters)

Iran grapples over social freedoms after war with Israel (Al Jazeera)

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November 2, 2025

Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians (Reuters)

Sudan: Thousands feared trapped in RSF-held el-Fasher (Deutsche Welle)

China uses subsidies, coercion and propaganda to boost falling birth rates (Le Monde)

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