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Venezuela’s post-election repression: arbitrary detentions, torture, and systematic silencing of sissent
Following Venezuela’s hotly contested presidential election, which took place on July 28, 2024, there has been an escalating human rights crisis in this Latin American

Iran’s security forces accused of sexual violence against detained protesters
Reports of Iranian law enforcement sexually assaulting protesting Iranians, including a 16-year-old minor, have further escalated international concern regarding Iran’s response to its current round

Sudan: Human rights defenders’ peril amid ongoing armed conflict and NGO restrictions
Sudan has turned out to be one of the most perilous countries for human rights defenders around the globe. Against the backdrop of a prolonged

How Israeli policies and Christian Zionism endanger Christianity and religious pluralism
The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem have made a dire prediction that the existence of Christianity in the Holy Land is threatened

Sweida atrocities: why Syria must answer for human rights violations
The clashes in Syria’s southern Sweida governorate in July 2025 were more than just a local problem pitting Bedouin armed groups against Druze ones. They

What the UN letter reveals about academic repression in US universities
The letter to Cornell University dated October 14 by the Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations is more than a diplomatic warning. This letter represents
