June 24 - 30, 2024: Week in Review

July 1, 2024

Read our latest publications:

Chen Pinlin's Quest for Justice Amid China's Censorship Storm by Shirley Lin

Closing the Gender Wage Gap: Recommendations and Strategies for Equitable Economic Growth by Andrea Serrano Santos

“When you live in this society now, it can kill you before you actually die”: The Second, Current Takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban by Cassandra Saunders

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International Observations

June 24, 2024 - International Day of Women in Diplomacy

June 26, 2024 - Anniversary of Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage in the U.S.

June 26, 2024 - International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

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News Briefs

June 25, 2024 - OSCE Urges Countries to Ensure the Ethical Use of New Border Technologies

June 27, 2024 - Canadian-Funded Telescope Project Sparks Controversy and Concern over the Rights of Indigenous Hawaiians

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Other Breaking Human Rights News

June 24, 2024

Two Years of Outrage: US Abortion Restrictions since Dobbs (Human Rights Watch)

Philippine court clears fierce Duterte critic of drugs charges after long legal battle and six years of police custody (CNN)

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June 25, 2024

Russia Committed Human Rights Violations in Crimea, European Court Finds (The New York Times)

Kenya: abductions of citizens suspected of involvement in protests violate human rights (Amnesty International)

UN-backed contingent of foreign police arrives in Haiti as Kenya-led force prepares to face gangs (AP News)

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June 26, 2024

Human rights group urges UK financial regulator to block Shein’s LSE flotation (The Guardian)

Rohingya ‘genocide intensifying’ as war rages in Myanmar’s Rakhine: BROUK (Al Jazeera)

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June 27, 2024

A leading human rights group calls on Iraq to halt deportations of Syrian refugees (ABC News)

Peru Walks Back Anti-Trans Guidance in Health System (Human Rights Watch)

Independent UN experts accuse Sudan’s warring parties of using starvation as weapon (AP News)

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June 28, 2024

Urbicide: ‘Even if Israel stops bombing Gaza tomorrow, it will be impossible to live there' (France24)

Sierra Leone Acts to Ban Child Marriage (Human Rights Watch}

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June 29, 2024

U.N. voices concern over rights violations in Japan workplaces (The Japan Times)

Young women fear return to a broken land of rubble and brutality (Caroline Hawley, BBC News)

Nevada adds proposed constitutional amendment for abortion rights to 2024 ballot (Gabe Stern, AP News via PBS News)

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June 30, 2024

A Taliban delegation attends a UN-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan, with women excluded (AP News)

Sudan on precipice of famine ‘beyond imagination’, says outgoing UN aid chief (Julian Broger, The Guardian)

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