September 8-14, 2025: Week in Review
- Human Rights Research Center
- Sep 15
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September 15, 2025
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Conditional Belonging: How Connecticut's Legal System Shapes Undocumented Immigrants' Well-Being by Yair Guijosa-Torres
Health Behind Bars by Nandhini Devaraj, MS
HRRC News Briefs
Zambia Faces Mounting Scandals Over Lead and Copper Mining Disasters by Aamnah Fatima Khan
New UN Report Accuses Sudan’s RSF of Crimes Against Humanity by Vera Rousseff
Burkina Faso passes law criminalising consensual same-sex relations by Peter Clarkin, MA
Justice for slain journalist Marie Colvin as Syria’s al-Assad is issued arrest warrant for her murder by Devin Windelspecht, MSc
Other Breaking Human Rights News
September 8, 2025
Canada’s response to the war in Gaza raises questions about its commitment to human rights and justice (The Toronto Star)
Lawyers caught in Turkey's crackdown on opposition (AL-Monitor)
September 9, 2025
Peru accused of violating human rights after government rejects reserve for uncontacted people (The Guardian)
September 10, 2025
September 11, 2025
Why is Gen Z protesting in Nepal? (Al Jazeera)
September 12, 2025
UN urges UK government to scrap welfare cuts over human rights concerns (The Independent)
Appeals court rules Trump administration can end legal protections for more than 400,000 migrants (AP News)
September 13, 2025
Police deploy pepper spray but fears of brawls between activists fail to materialise on Australia’s day of protests (The Guardian)
September 14, 2025
North Korea executing people for distributing K-dramas, UN warns (The Independent)



