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May 6, 2024
The UN says there’s ‘full-blown famine’ in northern Gaza (Sam Mednick & Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press via PBS News Hour)
Thousands of Ukrainians have been sent to Russian prisons. Ukraine says they’re being held as bargaining chips (Ivana Kottasová and Olga Voitovych, CNN)
May 7, 2024
Where is the promised protection? Journalists in Mexico threatened by state actors and organized crime (Alberto Amaro Jordán, Amnesty International)
May 8, 2024
Hong Kong: Protest song ban a ‘worrying sign’ of shrinking freedoms (Amnesty International)
China Forcibly Returns 60 Refugees to North Korea (Lina Yoon, Human Rights Watch)
May 9, 2024
First shipment of Palestinian aid to US-built floating pier in Gaza departs from Cyprus (Menelaos Hadjicostis and Sam Mednick, Associated Press via PBS News Hour)
‘Blast-furnace heat every day’: Record temperatures cancel classes, widening learning gaps across Southeast Asia (Heather Chen and Kathleen Magramo, CNN)
May 10, 2024
Armenian protestors march against territorial concessions to Azerbaijan (Faustine Vincent, Le Monde)
Nepal: Systemic descent-based discrimination against Dalits needs urgent action – NEW REPORT (Amnesty International)
in purple on International Women’s Day
May 11, 2024
Turkey's 'Saturday Mothers' vigils call for answers over enforced disappearances (Nicolas Bourcier, Le Monde)
Chinese woman jailed for reporting on Covid in Wuhan to be freed after four years (Amy Hawkins, The Guardian)
May 12, 2024
In progressive Argentina, the LGBTQ+ community says President Milei has turned back the clock (Débora Ray, AP News)
Refugees reflect on 25 years since Kosovo war (Yahoo News)