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Pakistan: Sanitation Workers Facing Systemic Discrimination and Other Rights Violations Need Better Legal Protection

Pakistan’s authorities must ensure robust protections for sanitation workers both in law and practice against institutionalized religious and caste-based discrimination.

July 28, 2025

A photo of Behrouz Ehsani, sitting for a portrait wearing a dark suit, shirt and tie, and a photo of Mehdi Hassani, smiling in a checkered shirt sitting on a couch with drapes behind him. — (Private source)

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Iran: Horrifying Secret Executions Amid Mounting Political Repression

Iranian authorities arbitrarily and secretly executed Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani, the latest in nearly 700 people hanged this year.

July 28, 2025

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Israel/OPT: Israeli Organizations Conclude Israel Committing Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza in Another Milestone for Accountability Efforts

Leading Israeli human rights organizations B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel concluded that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.

July 28, 2025

A protest in Tunisia. People hold large signs showing faces on a multicolored banner, under a row of small red and white Tunisian flags. — (Hasan Mrad/DeFodi Images News via Getty Images)

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Tunisia: Mass Convictions in ‘Conspiracy Case 2’ Deepen Rule of Law Crisis

The mass conviction of opposition figures in Tunisia’s “Conspiracy Case 2” is a new example of authorities’ ongoing restrictions on civic…

July 28, 2025

A masked person in an all black uniform stands guard on a city street wielding an AK rifle. A man in a hooded jacket walks nearby. There are parked cars and leafless trees. It is cloudy. — (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images)

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Syria: Authorities Must Investigate Abductions of Alawite Women and Girls 

The Syrian government must promptly, thoroughly and impartially investigate cases of abducted and kidnapped Alawite women and girls.

July 28, 2025

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Eswatini: Amnesty International Designates Arbitrarily Detained MPs as Prisoners of Conscience

Their continued arbitrary detention shows Eswatini’s deepening climate of repression and misuse of the justice system to punish those who…

July 25, 2025

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Global: International Court of Justice’s Landmark Opinion Bolsters Fight for Climate Justice and Accountability

The ICJ made clear that full enjoyment of human rights cannot be ensured without protection of the climate system and…

July 23, 2025

The photo shows Emine Ocak, mother of Hasan Ocak, who was disappeared in 1995 at age 23. The longstanding peaceful vigil known as the ‘Saturday Mothers’ vigil first started as a response to the hundreds of reported cases of enforced disappearances during the 1980s and 1990s by relatives of people who were forcibly disappeared and to protest against the prevalent impunity for grave human rights violations of the day. The exact circumstances of the disappearances in the vast majority of cases are still unknown, including the fate and whereabouts of hundreds of victims, and those responsible have not been brought to justice. Saturday Mothers have held 699 peaceful gatherings since May 1995. During this time, many participants have faced intimidation, harassment, excessive use of force, arbitrary detention and unjust prosecution. In 1999, as a result, the organizers decided to stop holding the weekly vigils, which resumed in 2009 to continue with their demand of truth, justice and reparations for all cases of enforced disappearances. On 25 August, police in Istanbul used unnecessary and excessive force, including tear gas, plastic bullets and water cannons, to disperse participants of a weekly vigil- known as the ‘Saturday Mothers vigil’- held for victims of enforced disappearance. The longstanding protest was marking its 700th week since it was first held in 1995. Scores of participants, including elderly relatives of people who were forcibly disappeared, were ill-treated and 47 people were detained before being released from police custody later that day. — (Emre Orman)

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Türkiye: The Struggle for Truth, Accountability and Justice Loses One of its Most Prominent Advocates - Emine Ocak

Emine Ocak, whose son was tortured to death in custody, unwavering lydemanded Turkish authorities investigate the forcible disappearances of hundreds…

July 23, 2025