April 1 - April 7, 2024: Week in Review
- Human Rights Research Center
- Apr 8, 2024
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April 8, 2024
Read our latest publications:
Rwanda: Thriving Thirty Years After Genocide by Dr. Rich Quinlan
UN Peacekeepers: Crimes of Sexual Abuse and Exploitation by Danielle Castano
Extreme heat and the threat to the lives of South Asian workers by Xinyu Zheng, MPP
A Bullying Epidemic: South Korea by Jasmyn J. Tang, MPH
HRRC News Briefs
April 5, - U.N. Human Rights Council investigates violations and growing concerns in Myanmar and Iran amid escalating violence
Other Breaking Human Rights News
April 1, 2024
Peru’s Brewing Migration Storm (Will Freeman, Americas Quarterly)
Israel continues to block aid into northern Gaza; UN sending team to shattered Al-Shifa Hospital (UN News)
April 2, 2024
Florida Supreme Court Allows State to Ban Abortion—But Clears the Way for a Vote on Abortion Rights (Center for Reproductive Rights)
Dominican Republic: Authorities must end de facto racist migration policies (Amnesty International)
April 3, 2024
Zimbabwe's President Mnangagwa declares national disaster over drought (Shingai Nyoka, BBC News)
Uganda’s Constitutional Court Largely Upholds Draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act (Kelley Robinson, Human Rights Campaign)
With famine looming, aid group halts food delivery in Gaza after Israeli strike kills 7 workers (Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy, Associated Press)
April 4, 2024
UN body approves first resolution protecting rights of intersex people (Brooke Migdon, The Hill)
Mercury exposure is widespread among Yanomami tribe in Amazon, a report finds (The Associated Press via NBC News)
Israel to open more aid routes to Gaza and increase deliveries after pressure from Biden (Rebecca Shabad, Carol E. Lee, Peter Alexander, Monica Alba, Allie Raffa and Courtney Kube, NBC News)
April 5, 2024
Argentina battles dengue surge and repellent shortage (Ione Wells, BBC News)
in purple on International Women’s Day
April 6, 2024
Though Rwanda has come a long way since the 1994 genocide, scars of the past still haunt the nation (Rodney Muhumuza and Ignatius, AP News)
Zambia’s deadly cholera outbreak offers lessons for our warming world (Tafadzwa Dzinamarira and Chalomba Chitanika, The Hill)
April 7, 2024
In Ecuador, gov’t sees mining as the future. But communities are divided (Michele Bertelli, Al Jazeera)
Top UN court to hold hearings in case accusing Germany of facilitating Israel’s war in Gaza (Mike Corder, Associated Press via PBS News)