October 6-12, 2025: Week in Review
- Human Rights Research Center
- Oct 13
- 2 min read
October 13, 2025
Explore Our Latest Publications
"Alligator Alcatraz": A Case Study in State-Run Detention and the Erosion of Human Rights by Danielle Castano, MA
Leveraging Starvation: Studying the Weaponization of Humanitarian Aid in a Political World` by Trisha Sayal
LA’s Tourism And The Underpaid Workers Behind It: A Local Community Organizer Shares The Biggest Challenges and Solutions by Ioana Podarita
HRRC News Briefs
Iran Upholds Death Sentence of Political Prisoner Mohammad Javad Vafaei-Sani by Aamnah Fatima Khan
President of Madagascar Refuses to Resign Amidst Youth Protests by Vera Rousseff
Amid a renewed genocide in Sudan, ICC convicts past militant leader for war crimes in Darfur by Devin Windelspecht, MSc
Other Breaking Human Rights News
October 6, 2025
UN rights body orders probe into human rights in Afghanistan, with a focus on women and girls (Toronto Star)
October 7, 2025
October 8, 2025
October 9, 2025
L.A. County Considers Emergency Declaration Over Immigration Raids (The New York Times)
October 10, 2025
Human Rights Watch refuses to accept donations from Aziz Ansari and other Riyadh comedy festival performers (The Independent)
Afghanistan: New restrictions on telecommunications raise further rights concerns, say UN experts (United Nations)
UN says 53 civilians killed during 3 days of attacks in and near el-Fasher camp in western Sudan (AP News)
October 11, 2025
October 12, 2025
