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Honouring National Indigenous History Month 2023

Celebrate Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQIA+ land and water defenders during National Indigenous History Month 2023....
Eduardo Peres Alberto pictured sitting in front of a cream background with a nose mask beneath his chin.

Angola: Teachers’ Union leaders receive death threats

On February 27, the National Union of Higher Education Teachers (SINPES) in Angola started a strike demanding better working conditions...

A protester holds 'Stop executions in Iran' and 'Free Iran' placards during the demonstration in London, on January 14, 2023. Demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street in protest against executions in Iran and in support of freedom for Iran. (Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Iran executions: Prisons turned into killing fields

Iranian authorities have executed at least 173 people convicted of drug-related offences this year after systematically unfair trials, nearly three...

Taliban members stop women protesting for women's rights in Kabul on October 21, 2021. Photo by BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images.

Afghanistan: Taliban’s treatment of women and girls should be investigated as the crime against humanity of gender persecution

The Taliban’s severe restrictions and unlawful crackdown on women and girls’ rights should be investigated as possible crimes under international...

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Bahrain: Prisoner of conscience, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja denied healthcare

Danish-Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja has not been seen by a cardiologist since he experienced cardiac arrhythmia in jail...

Toronto Solidarity Protest against Uganda’s ‘Anti-Homosexuality Bill’ March 2023. Photo by: Brayo Bryans v

Anti-2SLGBTQIA+ Hate in Canada Must End

An earlier version of this article erroneously reported Norfolk County voted to exclude pride and other non-civic flags from being...

Activists attend a candlelight vigil against the impending execution of Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, sentenced to death for trafficking heroin into Singapore, outside the Singaporean embassy in Kuala Lumpur on November 8, 2021. (Photo by Mohd RASFAN / AFP) (Photo by MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Amnesty International Death Penalty Report 2022

Recorded executions worldwide in 2022 reached the highest figure in five years. According to the Amnesty International Death Penalty Report...

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Iran: Six men from minority group at risk of execution

Six men – Ali Mojadam, Moein Khanfari, Mohammad Reza Moghadam, Salem Mousavi, Adnan Ghobeishavi and Habib Deris – from Iran’s...

A woman identifying as a lesbian makes jewellery to sell whilst at a shelter for lesbian, bisexual, and queer women on April 24, 2023 in Kampala, Uganda.

Uganda: President must veto anti-LGBT legislation

On May 02, Uganda’s Parliament passed the 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Bill and sent it back to President Yoweri Museveni. The President...

A young man with a wound on his head is leaning against a wall while a medic treats his injury.

World Press Freedom Day: Press in the line of fire in Peru

Journalists in Peru have reported more than 170 incidents of aggression since the state started cracking down on protests in...
A high-profile woman journalist in the Dominican Republic has been targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware

Dominican Republic: Pegasus spyware discovered on prominent journalist’s phone

A high-profile woman journalist in the Dominican Republic has been targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, in the first confirmed...

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Iran: Millions of schoolgirls at risk of poisoning

The rights to education, health and life of millions of schoolgirls are at risk amid ongoing chemical gas attacks deliberately...

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