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Nigeria: Foreign Aid Bill Endangers Civil Society
Click to expand Image The National Assembly Complex in Abuja, Nigeria, November 26, 2024. © 2024 Xinhua/Shutterstock (Abuja) – A proposed law to regulate foreign aid risks undermining the independence of civil society organizations and shrinking civic space in Nigeria,…
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Note to stressed parents: Instead of trying to be perfect, do this.
Experts offer tips for raising children while overwhelmed
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Cameroon Grapples with Gender-Based Violence, Increased Femicides
Click to expand Image Marie-Thérèse Abena Ondoa, Minister of Women's Empowerment and the Family, at the International Day of Rural Women celebrations in Nguibassal, Centre Cameroon, October 17, 2022. © 2022 Giordanno Brumas/SOPA Images/Sipa via Getty Images Several…
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Ecuador: New Adoption Law Entrenches Bias
Click to expand Image Ecuador's National Assembly in Quito on October 23, 2024. © 2024 Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images A new adoption law in Ecuador contains discriminatory provisions targeting lesbian, gay, and bisexual people and threatens to…
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China: Decade of Impunity for Crimes Against Uyghurs
Click to expand Image A Uyghur man outside of the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar city in northwestern China's Xinjiang region, July 13, 2023. © 2023 Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – The Chinese government’s decade-long severe repression…
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Zambia: Closing Courts Curbs Access to Justice
Click to expand Image Zambian opposition leader and National Reconciliation Party for Unity and Prosperity (NRPUP) presidential candidate Brian Muntayalwa Mundubile speaks to members of the media after casting his vote in Lusaka, Zambia, August 13, 2026. ©…
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Bolivia’s NGO Registry Threatens Human Rights Work
Click to expand Image Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz (left), meets with activist Amparo Carvajal before entering the offices of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights of Bolivia (APDHB), in La Paz, Bolivia, November 20, 2025. © 2025 Juan…
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Not Even Risk of Torture Deters Trump Administration Deportations
Click to expand Image US officials deporting people to Mexico at the McAllen-Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge, McAllen, Texas, March 13, 2026. © 2026 Felix Marquez/AP Photo A US federal judge ordered the US government on August 21 to take…
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Armenian Court Orders Son of Ex-President Held in Sweeping Graft Probe
A Yerevan court ordered the pretrial detention of Sedrak Kocharyan as prosecutors expand a multi-million-dollar corruption investigation into his father, former President Robert Kocharyan, and other high-ranking ex-officials.
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Türkiye: European Court Orders Rights Defender’s Immediate Release
Click to expand Image Osman Kavala © 2017 Private (London, August 25, 2026) – The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights today delivered a landmark judgment in the case of Osman Kavala, the human rights defender and civil…
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