January 6 - 12, 2025: Week in Review

January 13, 2025

Read our latest publications

Potential U.S. Exit from the Paris Agreement and Its Consequences on Global Climate Mitigation by Kalesh Loakman, LLM

Bridging the Gap: Addressing Age and Racial Inequities in Breast Cancer Outcomes by Kaylee Zimmerman

Unequal Protection: Exclusions of Small-Town Queer Communities by Raghav Ranawat

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Observances

January 9, 2025 - National Day of Mourning: President Jimmy Carter's Funeral (U.S.)

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News Briefs

U.S. military returns long-held Guantanamo prisoner to Tunisia

2,200 Migrants Reported Dead or Missing in the Mediterranean Sea in 2024

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Other Breaking Human Rights News

January 6, 2025

Germany Freezes Funding of Aid Organization, Cutting Off Israeli Human Rights Groups (Haaretz)

U.S. Envoy Says Israel Will Withdraw From Southern Lebanon (The New York Times)

Jan. 6, Three Years Later: 10 Documentaries to Watch (PBS)

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January 7, 2025

US transfers 11 Yemeni detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison to Oman (Al Jazeera)

Ghana: New President must tackle pressing human rights issues (Amnesty International)

Iran reportedly executed at least 901 people in 2024, UN says (BBC News)

Meta is getting rid of fact checkers. Zuckerberg acknowledged more harmful content will appear on the platforms now (CNN)

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January 8, 2025

Over 5,600 killed in Haiti’s 2024 gang violence, UN human rights office reports (La Croix International)

Venezuela’s Maduro says US nationals among group of ‘mercenaries’ detained (Al Jazeera)

EU warns of 'serious blow' from Trump on climate change (Reuters)

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January 9, 2025

Cameroon: Authorities must stop harassment of human rights defender Alice Nkom and attacks on civil society organizations (Amnesty International)

Cameroon Suspends NGOs, Harming Gender-Based Violence Survivors (Human Rights Watch)

More than 125,000 refugees return to Syria in desperate conditions (UN News)

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January 10, 2025

Australia violated refugees' rights in offshore detention centre, says UN (Reuters)

Biden extends protections for immigrants from Venezuela, El Salvador and Ukraine (NPR)

Critical aid blocked in Gaza, as fuel shortages threaten lifesaving services (UN News)

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January 11, 2025

How the climate crisis fuels devastating wildfires: ‘We have tweaked nature and pissed it off’ (The Guardian)

Uyghurs detained in Thailand say they face deportation and persecution in China (AP News)

Op-ed: A Veil of Injustice: Hijab bans in Ethiopian schools breach religious, women’s rights (Addis Standard)

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January 12, 2025

Tanzania rights activist latest abduction victim in Kenya (France 24)

Israeli siege of north Gaza leaves 5,000 dead, missing after 100 days (Al Jazeera)

‘Unprecedented’ rise in abortion prosecutions prompts call for law change from medical leaders (The Guardian)

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