![On July 3, for the first time, dozens of female civil servants participated in their weekly morning assembly wearing niqabs.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/07/202006asia_australia_women.jpg?h=c71d0c67&itok=sjq_VwRw)
![On July 3, for the first time, dozens of female civil servants participated in their weekly morning assembly wearing niqabs.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/07/202006asia_australia_women.jpg?h=c71d0c67&itok=sjq_VwRw)
July 8, 2020
Human Rights Watch Amicus Brief in Hernandez-Roman v. Wolf
Covid-19 and the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center
![201806us_immigration_main](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201806us_immigration_main.jpg?itok=f2V29L49)
July 8, 2020
Netherlands Sees No Role for Gender Marker on ID Documents
Move Raises Questions of When Gender Markers Are Necessary
![The Dutch flag flies at the parliament in The Hague, Netherlands, March 16, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/07/202007europe_netherlands_flag_parliament.jpg?h=3ec0e40f&itok=ku0j0nZi)
July 8, 2020
Covid-19 Catches Up with Brazil’s President
Bolsonaro Disregards WHO Recommendations Even After Testing Positive
![Brazil´s President Jair Bolsonaro (center, wearing a white shirt) poses for a picture with US Ambassador Todd Chapman (center, wearing a hat) and several ministers during a luncheon at the ambassador´s residence, July 4, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/07/202007americas_brazil_us_bolsonaro.jpg?h=30c0321a&itok=qxfzwqzZ)
![Mohamed Ramadan (left) and Hussein Ali Moosa (right).](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202003mena_bahrain_ramadan_moosa.jpg?itok=xxv-Zrs5)
July 8, 2020
Justice at Risk in Democratic Republic of Congo
Draft Laws Endanger Independence of Courts
![Protesters, including many motorbike-taxi drivers, demonstrate while holding placards for the second day around the Parliament in Kinshasa, June 24, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/07/202007africa_drc_protest.jpg?h=e57c5840&itok=HeIE9jW2)
July 8, 2020
US: Alabama Missing Ways to Improve Young People’s Health
Comprehensive Sex Ed, HPV Vaccine Can Reduce Preventable Deaths
![Desks in an empty classroom](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/07/202006us_alabama_sexed_main.jpg?h=a7ccef3d&itok=JkgdHoYC)
July 8, 2020
Burkina Faso: Residents’ Accounts Point to Mass Executions
Identify Remains of 180 Men Found in Djibo; Prosecute Those Responsible
![Djibo, Burkina Faso](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/07/202007africa_burkinafaso_djibo.jpg?h=c4e2ccbc&itok=apwmZZcb)
July 8, 2020
Turkey: Plan to Divide, Undermine Legal Profession
Draft Law Reduces Leading Bar Associations’ Authority, Leads to Creation of Rival Groups
![Chairs of Turkey’s provincial bar associations stage a sit-in demonstration after police blocked the group from marching to Ankara to protest a new draft law. The new law is set to divide the legal profession along political lines and has been strongly opposed by bar associations. June 22, 2020. © AP Photo](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/07/AP_20174596738289.jpg?h=0d27ee61&itok=3HPb3DdW)
July 8, 2020
Moscow’s Use of Facial Recognition Technology Challenged
Activists File an Application to European Court of Human Rights
![Two surveillance camera are seen in a street in Moscow, Russia](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202003eca_russia_cameras.jpg?itok=0v-IiOrH)
July 7, 2020
Venezuela: Rulings Threaten Free and Fair Elections
Pro-government Supreme Court Co-opts Opposition Parties, Electoral Authority
![Nicolas Maduro, sitting at desk second from right, speaks with Supreme Court President Maikel Moreno at the Supreme Court before giving his annual presidential address in Caracas, Venezuela. January 31, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/07/202007Amer_Venezuela_supremecourt.jpg?h=0d27ee61&itok=uHwM1VWw)
July 7, 2020
EU Solidarity on Migrant Children in Greece Could Change Lives
Sweden should welcome and protect unaccompanied children
![A boy stands next to a hole in the fence of the Moria camp following rainfall, on the island of Lesbos, Greece, November 22, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/07/202007eca_greece_childrenReuters.jpg?h=ea95bb15&itok=TXJGMpvl)