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Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged the world’s governments to lift sanctions against Syria. The group maintained that the sanctions, imposed by the US, the EU and the UK on the former Assad regime, hinder reconstruction efforts, the restoration of critical services, and protection of human rights. Hiba Zayadin, senior Syria researcher at HRW, [...]

Human Rights Watch reported Tuesday that successive governments in Guatemala have failed to meet their obligations to girls facing forced pregnancies due to sexual violence. The right’s organization’s new 85-page report focused on several obligations, including access to abortion, healthcare, education, financial support, and justice. HRW interviewed 31 representatives of civil society organizations, 41 government [...]

US Federal District Judge Brendan A. Hurson issued a temporary restraining order Thursday blocking a Trump administration executive order aimed at eliminating federal funding to transgender medical care for minor youths. The judge’s order restrains executive officials from “conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides [...]

The Center for Reproductive Rights criticized on Wednesday the German Legal Affairs Committee’s decision to decline to advance a proposal to improve and modernize abortion laws and reproductive care. The Center for Reproductive Rights expressed “deep disappointment over the failure” to progress the bill, and criticized the law as it currently stands for falling “short [...]

Dear President Trump, As an ordinary citizen, I write to protest and dissent from your effort in plain sight to dismantle the United States Constitution and the Federal Government. You took the oath to take care and faithfully execute the laws of the United States. Instead, you try to dismantle sections of the government established [...]

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) suspended its US-funded humanitarian work due to President Donald Trump’s executive order to “re-evaluate” foreign aid on Tuesday. Providing essential aid to over 20 countries, the NRC said that this suspension is the first in its history, and expresses regret at the significant impact that this will have on the [...]

The African Union warned on Tuesday that the Sudanese civil war has created the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world.” Mohamed Ibn Chambas, chair of an African Union panel on Sudan, said in a statement on Facebook that the civil war has “hampered access to humanitarian relief, led to a shortage of food and aggravated [...]

New York Attorney General Letitia James warned New York hospitals Monday that complying with President Trump’s executive order “protecting” individuals from gender-affirming care violates New York law. James reminded New York hospitals in a letter Monday that: Electing to refuse services to a class of individuals based on their protected status, such as withholding the [...]

A federal judge temporarily blocked a presidential order that would halt gender-affirming care for a transgender woman inmate and force her transfer to a men’s prison, her lawyers said Thursday. The inmate — called Maria Moe — sued the Trump administration over its January 20 executive order that prohibits male-born individuals from being detained in [...]

Mississippi state and the US federal government have neglected to protect Black women from cervical cancer deaths in the rural Mississippi Delta region, the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice (SRBWI)  and Human Rights Watch said in a report released Wednesday. The report states that “there are persistent and glaring racial [...]