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  1. 4 hours ago

    Our beloved colleague, Dewa Mavhinga, passed away suddenly overnight. He had just returned to Johannesburg after a research mission in Zimbabwe. We are heartbroken and devastated by the news. Our priority right now is to support his family.

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    8 hours ago

    It doesn't help that French President Macron, as he becomes the first Western leader to meet the Saudi crown prince since the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, says he doesn't "endorse anything" and is "clear on the issue of human rights." Not so clear, it seems.

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    7 hours ago

    The Biden administration needs to ease economic restrictions. “But already, millions of Afghans have been pushed over the edge.” Hospitals of emaciated Afghans, others starving to death at home. There is food for purchase but no money to purchase it with.

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    16 hours ago

    When will South Asians end deadly mob attacks because their religious sentiments are “offended?” Now factory manager lynched and set on fire in via

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  5. 11 hours ago

    Formula 1 () heads to Saudi Arabia for its first visit to Jeddah for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Simply put, it is reputation laundering and whitewashing of human rights abuses. 🏁 Saudi is hiding human rights abuses with sporting events. 🏁

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    14 hours ago

    The EU & UK insist on business-as-usual rules on intellectual property at the World Trade Organization, blocking a temporary patent waiver () for vaccines & other medical tools to fight Covid. Business as usual? In a global pandemic that’s killing millions of us?

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  7. 11 hours ago

    Thousands of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon are blocked from going to school. “To be clear, if the [Lebanese] government does not revoke these policies, it will be responsible for gross abuse of the right to education,” says .

    Fewer than half of the school-age refugee children in Lebanon are in formal education.
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  8. 13 hours ago

    "As families huddle to keep warm in the forests along the Poland-Belarus border, some of them nursing wounds from violent ping-pong pushbacks, the European Commission has proposed a plan to make a horrible situation even worse," writes .

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    14 hours ago

    Iraq's serious rule-of-law problem: armed groups called Popular Mobilization Forces, which were formed to help defeat ISIS, some with close ties to Iran, may be calling the shots in Iraq and are independent of – and more powerful than—the government.

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    16 hours ago

    Aid agencies are desperately trying to get food to 5.2 million people in , but authorities' continued siege (minus 160 trucks let in few days ago, enough to cover 1.5 days of region's needs) means 5 million aren't getting any food at all

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    Dec 3

    Asylum rights thrown into a frozen ditch on Poland-Belarus border. My colleague on the 's problematic new border proposals as Poland continues to restrict humanitarian access

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    15 hours ago

    78 days ago the Taliban effectively banned teenage girls from attending school. Parents, teachers and students in most provinces across Afghanistan are still waiting to hear when girls can return to their classrooms

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    22 hours ago

    authorities showed brazen contempt for people’s right to hold peaceful protests & used violence to quash dissent on Dec 1 & detained dozens, including opposition leader, Tofig Yagublu, who sustained multiple injuries in police custody. See

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    Dec 2

    COVAX can’t be expected to solve the problem of global vaccine shortage caused by limited production capacity. We need BILLIONS more doses & with boosters, that number only grows. Who will make them if EU & UK keep blocking wider vaccine production?

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    17 hours ago

    All corporate board rooms should be watching this legal case. Does your co have traceability throughout? And what is it doing with that traceability?

    🚨We & filed a criminal complaint with 🇳🇱 authorities to investigate possible complicity of 🇳🇱 & 🇺🇸 brands in crimes against humanity carried out by 🇨🇳 in its Xinjiang region. Large number of Uyghurs are exposed to forced labour & grave crimes against humanity!
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  16. 16 hours ago

    “The Saudi government is going all out to bury its egregious human rights abuses beneath public spectacles and sporting events,” says .

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  17. 19 hours ago

    Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week:

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  18. Dec 3

    When experiencing an acute emotional distress, people should not have to fear police violence. in Toronto shows that it is possible to uphold human rights in times of mental health distress.

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  19. Dec 3

    People with intellectual disabilities living in Mexico have little to no visibility in politics. Mexico has an obligation to ensure people with disabilities can effectively and fully participate in political and public life on an equal basis with others.

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  20. Dec 3

    By prioritizing Covid-19 compliance inspections, the government of the country of Georgia is allowing its pandemic response to undermine its recent progress on workplace safety.

    Miners enter the Mindeli coal mine in Tkibuli, Georgia, July 13, 2018.
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