May 20 - May 26, 2024: Week in Review

May 27, 2024

Read our latest publications:

• An Evaulation of the Del Monte Human Rights Crisis in Kenya by Sarisha Harikrishna

• Where to go? Queer-targeted Chinese censorship and New Strategies by Vivian Sun

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HRRC News Briefs

May 20, 2024 - United Nations Estimates 810,000 Palestinians Have Fled from Rafah in Past Two Weeks

May 21, 2024 - Landmark Paris Trial Seeks Justice for Syrian Torture Victims and Highlights International Accountability

May 24, 2024 - China Forcibly Relocates Rural Tibetans to Urban Areas

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Other Breaking Human Rights News

May 20, 2024

War crimes prosecutor seeks arrest of Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Netanyahu (AP News)

BMW and others bought parts from China supplier flagged for forced labor (The Guardian)

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May 21, 2024

New technology and AI used at borders increases inequalities and undermines human rights of migrants (Amnesty International)

Small island states secure historic climate win at international ocean court (Reuters)

‘Nowhere to go’: Rohingya face arson attacks in Myanmar’s Rakhine State (Al Jazeera)

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May 22, 2024

Indonesia mulls ban on investigative journalism, LGBT content (Reuters)

Iran: President Raisi’s death must not deny victims of his grim human rights legacy their right to accountability (Amnesty International)

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May 23, 2024

In South Africa, a community struggling for clean water reflects wider discontent ahead of election (Magome Mogomotsi, AP News via PBS News)

Ivorian cocoa farmers ‘barely survive’ while chocolate company profits soar (Hannane Ferdjani, Al Jazeera)

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May 24, 2024

Myanmar: UN rights office warns of growing crisis in Rakhine state (UN News)

World ignoring risk of Sudan genocide - UN expert (BBC News)

Europe: New EU due diligence law governing big business is a landmark advance for human rights (Amnesty International)

 in purple on International Women’s Day

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May 25, 2024

Boulder group raises $75,000 for first-ever ambulance in West Bank refugee camp (Andrea Kramar, Rocky Mountain PBS)

Police and protesters clash in Tel Aviv as rallies across Israel demand Gaza ceasefire (Eugenia Yosef, CNN)

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May 26, 2024

More than 100 killed in two weeks of fighting in Sudan’s el-Fasher: MSF (Al Jazeera)

Some 160 villagers reported taken in deadly raid (Chris Ewokor and Thomas Mackintosh, BBC News)

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