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South Africa Names Gender Apartheid. Now It Should Act.
Click to expand Image Participants hold signs during a gender-based violence protest at the forecourt of the botanical gardens in Johannesburg, SouthAfrica, November 21, 2025. © 2025 Misper Apawu/AP Photo

At South Africa’s National Women’s Day commemoration on August 9, President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke, among other things, about the Taliban’s syst...


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Russia’s Supreme Court Bars Pro-Peace Party from Elections
Click to expand Image Lawyer Vitaly Iskakov (left), attorney Gadzhi Aliyev (center) and Chairman of the Yabloko political party, Nikolai Rybakov, attend a hearing on a lawsuit filed by the Rodina (Motherland) party seeking to bar the Yabloko party from the State Duma election, at the Russian Supreme Court in Moscow, Russia, August 10, 2026. © 2026 Vladimir ...

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UN: Keep International Force in Lebanon to Protect Civilians
Click to expand Image An armored vehicle of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrols a town in southern Lebanon, April 29, 2026. © 2026 Frederic Petry/Hans Lucas via Reuters

The United Nations Security Council should ensure that an international force remains in southern Lebanon to protect civilians and deter human rights abu...


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Afghanistan: Taliban Forcibly Disappear 6 Rights Workers

(New York, August 12, 2026) – Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have forcibly disappeared six staff members of the nongovernmental group Women and Children Legal Research Foundation (WCLRF) for nearly a month, Human Rights Watch said today. 

The Taliban have provided no information on the whereabouts of the organization’s leadership team, who were arrested in Kabul on ...


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US: Federal Agencies Abandon Civil Rights Duties
Click to expand Image Demonstrators hold signs in support of voting rights outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on October 15, 2025.  © 2025 Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images

(Washington, DC) – The Trump administration has gutted federal civil rights enforcement in the United States, leaving the people the laws were built to protect...


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