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Chile protests: A man reacts on the ground as he is confronted by a member of the security forces during a protest against Chile's government in Santiago, Chile on 20 December 2019. REUTERS/Pablo Sanhueza

23 Dec 2019 6 minute read

Chile’s new shadows

The violent crackdown against Chilean protesters is reviving painful memories of dictatorship. Roxana Olivera...

29 Sep 2019 4 minute read

High seas, low deeds

Slavery, murder, abandonment. Where human rights do not reach.

10 Dec 2018 12 minute read

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Paper promises: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70

Why is it so easy for governments to ignore this much-feted document? TJ Coles analyzes the British case...

25 Oct 2018 3 minute read

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Human rights after Trump

Nanjala Nyabola explains why Trump presents a challenge for those who work in human rights.

13 Sep 2018 4 minute read

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Is China detaining a million Uyghur Muslims?

The country’s economic influence may be buying silence on a massive human rights violation. Nithin Coca...

intersex surgery

8 Oct 2018 6 minute read

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Our bodies, our rights

According to the UN, most surgeries on intersex babies amount to torture. Valentino Vecchietti calls for...

Women inside the fenced yard of the Svyatoshinsky psychiatric institution, Ukraine

22 Aug 2018 6 minute read

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Locked away forever

Inside Ukraine’s psychiatric institutions: Madeline Roache reports.

14 Aug 2018 5 minute read

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Shahidul Alam imprisoned another month

A court will hear his bail petition in September. Rumana Hashem reports.

Shahidul Alam

6 Aug 2018 3 minute read

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Free Shahidul!

Bangladeshi police have abducted renowned photographer Shahidul Alam. Chris Brazier explains what Alam's...

Members of the dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party inside a police vehicle in Phnom Penh.

3 Jul 2018 7 minute read

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Cambodia’s ‘one party state’ prepares for polls

Prime Minister Hun Sen has dissolved newspapers and the opposition. Becky and Simon Kenton-Lake...

A screenshot from Lush’s spycops campaign

4 Jun 2018 3 minute read

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Why we need Lush’s Spycop campaign

Lush’s exposure of spycop wrongs will improve policing, Jenny Jones argues.

3 May 2018 4 minute read

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Defending journalism in a climate of fear

On World Press Freedom Day, Amnesty International’s Stefan Simanowitz reports on why Turkish journalists...

19 Apr 2018 6 minute read

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ECRF: Fighting for life and freedom in Egypt

Alessio Perrone meets the activists fighting to shine light on human rights abuses during Egypt’s dark days...

Introducing... Emmerson Mnangagwa

31 Mar 2018 1 minute read

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Introducing... Emmerson Mnangagwa

The record of Zimbabwe's new President is not re-assuring for Zimbabweans interested in human rights...

Indigenous lives matter in Canada

31 Mar 2018 2 minute read

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Indigenous lives matter in Canada

Thousands of Canadians – indigenous and non-indigenous – took to the streets in cities across the country...

Iranian Women protest the veil

31 Mar 2018 1 minute read

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Iranian Women protest the veil

On 27 December 2017, 31-year-old Vida Movahed removed her headscarf, tied it to a stick and stood atop a telecoms box on...

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