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August 29, 2024 News Release

Lebanon: Nationwide Electricity Blackout

Lebanon's capital, Beirut, in the dark on July 27, 2020, due to widespread electricity blackouts caused by fuel shortages in the midst of a dire economic crisis. 
August 28, 2024 Dispatches

Private Door to Brazil’s Agriculture Ministry

Mandatory Lobbying Disclosures and Publicly Searchable Registries Are Basic Minimum

Activists protest the use of pesticides outside the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, on October 4, 2023.
August 27, 2024 Commentary

Protesters Around the World Are Targeting Inequality. Governments Must Listen

Anti-quota protestors and police are engaging in a clash in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on July 18, 2024.
August 21, 2024 News Release

US/Oregon: Wildfires Threaten Pregnancies

Socially Excluded Communities Especially at Risk

A helicopter flies over a wildfire in a forest
August 19, 2024 Statement

Honduras: Submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

76th Session

August 14, 2024 News Release

US: Los Angeles Criminalizes Unhoused People

Arrests, Tickets, Property Destruction Brutalize People Who Need Housing

Police remove an unhoused woman from her tent
August 8, 2024 Statement

Lebanon’s Poverty Crisis: A Dire Need for Universal Social Security

Joint Civil Society Statement

July 31, 2024 News Release

Tanzania: Indigenous Maasai Being Forcibly Relocated

Consult Communities, Restore Social Services in Ngorongoro Conservation Area

A group of Maasai women and men in traditional Maasai clothing and jewelry
July 18, 2024 News Release

Syria: Mass Unlawful Asset Freezes 

Hundreds of Zakia Residents Affected Since Early 2024

The central bank building in Syria's capital, Damascus, on February 28, 2012.
July 16, 2024 Commentary

Broken Promises of Compensation for Sinjaris

Piles of applications in the Tel Afar compensation office.
July 16, 2024 News Release

Kenya/IMF: Align Economic Reform with Rights

Strengthen Social Contract to Address Root Causes of Protester Anger

Protestors demonstrate against the Finance Bill 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya.
July 15, 2024 UPR

Human Rights Watch Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Egypt

48th Session of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review; 4th cycle

July 15, 2024 Dispatches

US Supreme Court Decision Undermines Right to Housing

Ruling Allows US Cities to Punish People for Being Unhoused

Police look into a tent at an encampment for unhoused people
July 15, 2024 News Release

Iran: New President Should End Abuse of Border Couriers

Improve Conditions, Economic Opportunities in Marginalized Communities

Kulbars carry goods on their backs along the mountains of the Iran-Iraq border, Kurdistan, Iran, April 29, 2017.
July 12, 2024 Commentary

Moving Beyond GDP Towards a Human Rights Economy

UN Human Rights Council Event Reflects Momentum for Paradigm Shift

Sarah Saadoun speaks at a side event to the HRC 56th Session.

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