Since yesterday( Thursday), she has received a wave of harassment and threats on social media, including gender-based insults and calls for her arrest, amal Fathy criticized the Egyptian government for failing to protect women, and her arrest has shown just how pertinent her concerns are. It is a dark day when the Egyptian authorities are more concerned with silencing a woman who speaks out about sexual harassment than taking steps to address the issue.

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Today, the United States government announced to the rest of the world that it believes the U.S. and Israel are above the law: that Israel can continue to violate international law and Palestinians' human rights and the U.S. will firmly support it in doing so.

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To the Iraqi protesters, the resignation( of Abdul Mahdi) in some parts is a welcome move in terms of the protests yielding some sort of result, but it's nowhere near enough in terms of the demands that protesters have.

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When I look back at that visit and see now how it has been remembered, I think about myself at age 13. I was going to Catholic school, I was an altar boy, the youth group I went to took place in a convent. Everything I did, my whole life, the Church was at the center of it, and I think about how Pope John Paul II said Pope John Paul II loved me -- well, Pope John Paul II didn't.

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I am disgusted with Pope Francis, and utterly repulsed with how the Vatican has conducted itself.

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The idea that more than 700 people could all stand trial together in one day, all facing the death penalty in what is clearly a grossly unfair trial that violates Egypt's own constitution beggars belief.

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The strategy for repression appears to have been directed from the highest levels of government, president Daniel Ortega and Vice-President Rosario Murillo repeatedly demonized demonstrators and denied they were being killed.

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But this is shocking. We expect that this footage will be investigated -- it’s difficult for us to understand why they would try to sink a refugee boat.

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The enforced disappearances carried out since 2011 by the Syrian government were perpetrated as part of an organized attack against the civilian population that has been widespread, as well as systematic.

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European leaders’ desperate attempts to enlist Turkey as Europe's gatekeeper are ignoring the manifest failures of the Turkish authorities to respect the rights of refugees and migrants.

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The death penalty in India is arbitrary, discriminatory and is often used disproportionately against the poor.

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One of the key reasons the Egyptian people took to the streets in 2011 was to abolish the 30-year-long state of emergency imposed by Hosni Mubarak, granting the current president similar absolute powers is a deadly blow to human rights in Egypt.

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Atena is a prisoner of conscience – she has committed no real crime, she is being unfairly punished simply for exercising her right to free speech, association and assembly. We've been calling on Iran's Supreme Leader and Head of the Judiciary to release Atena immediately. If not, we'll continue to fight for her freedom.

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We only see that mission patrolling right around the borders of Italy. But all these boats that we have seen go down have been going down further afield, so closer to Libya, and these boats are simply not reaching that area.

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The notion that Raif Badawi must be allowed to heal so that he can suffer this cruel punishment again and again is macabre and outrageous.

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The flogging of Raif Badawi is a vicious act of cruelty which is prohibited under international law, by ignoring international calls to cancel the flogging Saudi Arabia's authorities have demonstrated an abhorrent disregard for the most basic human rights principles.

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