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Bullets Were Raining Everywhere: Deadly Repression of Pro-Biafra Activists

The Nigerian security forces, led by the military, embarked on a chilling campaign of extrajudicial executions and violence resulting in…

November 22, 2016

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Waiting in vain: Unlawful police killings and relatives’ long struggle for justice

Jamaican authorities and local police are promoting a culture of fear amongst women and their families in marginalized communities to…

November 22, 2016

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Window-dressing or pioneers of change? An assessment of Bahrain’s human rights oversight bodies

Five years after Bahrain’s 2011 uprising, which saw peaceful protesters beaten, shot, and killed in the streets, key reforms introduced…

November 18, 2016

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Agents of the people: Four years of foreign agents law in Russia

More than a hundred organizations have seen their funding shrink, their reputations tarnished, and their staff intimidated under Russia’s draconian…

November 17, 2016

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Iran: Macabre propaganda videos feature forced ‘confessions’ of executed Sunni men

Iran’s authorities have used crude propaganda tactics to dehumanize death penalty victims in the eyes of the public and divert…

November 15, 2016

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Nowhere else to go: Forced returns of Somali refugees from Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya

Kenya: Government officials coercing refugees back to war-torn Somalia Just two weeks before the deadline given to close the Dadaab…

November 14, 2016

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‘Where are we supposed to go?’: Destruction and forced displacement in Kirkuk

Iraq: Kurdish authorities bulldoze homes and banish hundreds of Arabs from Kirkuk Kurdish authorities have carried out a wave of…

November 3, 2016

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Out of Sight Out of Mind

Decades of resource development and government policy failures have strained the social fabric of communities in northeast British Columbia (BC),…

November 1, 2016

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Hotspot Italy: How EU’s flagship approach leads to violations of refugee and migrant rights

Italy: Beatings and unlawful expulsions amid EU push to get tough on refugees and migrants  The European Union’s pressure on…

November 1, 2016

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We did not believe we would survive: Killings, rape and looting in Juba

South Sudanese government forces are responsible for deliberately killing civilians, raping women and girls and looting property in July in…

October 24, 2016

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For Your Eyes Only

Tech companies like Snapchat and Skype’s owner Microsoft are failing to adopt basic privacy protections on their instant messaging services,…

October 20, 2016

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Punished for Daesh’s crimes’: Displaced Iraqis abused by militias and government forces

Iraqis fleeing IS-held areas face torture, disappearance and death in revenge attacks Paramilitary militias and government forces in Iraq have…

October 17, 2016