March 17 - March 23, 2025: Week in Review

March 24, 2025

Read our latest publications

The Human Rights Implications of High Rent and Financial Barriers to Renting Apartments in the U.S. by Fola Adamolekun

The Disenfranchisement of the Chagossian People on the Future of the Chagos Archipelago by Robert Beltran, LLM

Silencing Critics by Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment: What Li Yixue Has Been Through by Xun Jia

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Observances

March 21st - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

March 21st - 27th - Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination

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HRRC News Briefs

Indonesia Expands Military’s Role in Civilian Affairs, Raising Alarms Over Democratic Rights by Aamnah Fatima Khan

Whistleblower Pamela Mabini Murdered in South Africa by Aisha Noor

Serbia Erupts: Historic Student-Led Protest Demands Justice and Reform by Blene Woldeselasse, MSc

Potential U.S. cobalt deal in DRC comes with many risks by Peter Clarkin, MA

Medical neglect by Iranian authorities claims lives of Saeed Zaderaiat and many others by Aamnah Fatima Khan

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Other Breaking Human Rights News

March 17, 2025

Iran: Authorities target women’s rights activists with arbitrary arrest, flogging and death penalty (Amnesty International)

How South Korean Feminists Are Resisting the Conservative Tide (International Policy Digest)

Tunisia rescues 612 migrants, recovers 18 bodies in overnight operations (France 24)

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March 18, 2025

Israel warns more to come as airstrikes kill over 400 in Gaza after two months of truce (Reuters)

Children, a doctor: Here are some of the people Israel killed in Gaza (Al Jazeera)

Armed men seen on video targeting group searching for relatives in Jalisco (AP News)

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March 19, 2025

Indonesia: Proposed Military Law Amendments Threaten Rights (Human Rights Watch)

Ukrainians tortured, raped, executed by Russian captors, Human Rights Council hears (UN News)

What to know about the El Salvador mega-prison where Trump sent deported Venezuelans (The Guardian)

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March 20, 2025

Human Rights Watch declaration on prison conditions in El Salvador for the J.G.G. v. Trump case (Human Rights Watch)

Why experts fear the men who were sent to El Salvador's megaprison may never make it out (NBC News)

Sudan: Civilians targeted as hostilities intensify in the capital (UN News)

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March 21, 2025

Ecuador: Presidential candidates must put human rights at the center of their proposals (Amnesty International)

Ukraine: Devastating impact of hostilities on children’s rights (OHCHR)

Indonesia expands military role in civilian affairs amid protests and human rights concerns (Jurist News)

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March 22, 2025

Thousands of Israelis protest Shin Bet chief’s dismissal, for captives (Al Jazeera)

Denmark advises transgender people to contact US Embassy before traveling to the United States (AP News)

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March 23, 2025

Turkey jails Istanbul mayor before trial, stoking opposition anger (Reuters)

Amid fear and confusion in US immigrant communities, protest goes grassroots (The Guardian)

Pakistan charges human rights, Baloch activist with ‘terrorism’ (South China Morning Post)

The Vanishing Peace: Fortuné Gaetan Zongo on Burundi’s Human Rights Reckoning (International Policy Digest)

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