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Watch: Egypt’s Epidemic of Sexual Violence

Egyptian anti-sexual harassment groups confirmed that mobs sexually assaulted and in some cases raped at least 91 women in Tahrir Square over four days of protests beginning on June 30, 2013 amid a climate of impunity. Human Ri...
by Natasha Lipman
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Interview: My Escape From Tibet

Tashi, 29, arrived in the UK in November 2012 from Dharamsala, India. He was 18 when he fled Tibet in a three month journey through the borders of Tibet, Nepal and India, until he finally found sanctuary in a UN Refugee registr...
by Jessica Trevis
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Human Rights

Morocco’s Friendly Deals With Spain: When a Pedophile is Released on Royal Pardon

Today is a sad day for Moroccans. Today is day that killed the hopes of thousands and thousands of Moroccans in a democratic system solidly based on justice and equity. Today Moroccan’s dignity has been brought down to the lo...
by Samia Haimoura
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Human Rights

2014 Olympics & Anti-Gay Sentiment In Russia

Discriminatory behavior and recent anti-gay laws are sparking controversy in Russia, who is set to host the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. Human rights activists are outraged at the horrific outpouring of violence culminating gay rig...
by Bre Cruickshank
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Sudan

Crisis In Darfur: Will Arresting The Sudanese President Change Anything?

Ever since 2003, the crisis in Darfur has grown consistently worse. At the moment, human rights activists are vehemently protesting for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and charges of genocide af...
by Bianca Facchinei
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Bangladesh

Bangladesh Factory Collapse: A Call For Change

All human beings deserve to be treated with dignity. Here, one victim of the Bangladesh factory collapse, which killed over 1,000 workers, recounts her close to death experience. “I didn’t think anybody could save me,” s...
by Bre Cruickshank
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Human Rights

WATCH: This is What Torture Really Looks Like

As Ramadan begins, more than 100 hunger-strikers in Guantánamo Bay continue their protest. More than 40 of them are being force-fed. A leaked document sets out the military instructions, or standard operating procedure, for fo...
by Natasha Lipman
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Human Rights

Bedouins & The Prawer Law

The Prawer Law affects the Arab population of the Naqab area (Negev). Also known as the Bedouins, they constitute a semi-nomadic Arab population that had inhabited the southern desert of Israel long before Israel was establishe...
by Catarina Santos
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Human Rights

Human Trafficking in the Sinai: The Price of a Human Life

”Listen, you have one and a half hours to get the money and meet me, that’s your last chance or you can forget the whole thing.” Meron Estefanos, Swedish-Eritrean journalist and human rights activist, who received this me...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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