April 22, 2020
Kenya: Police Brutality During Curfew
Several dead, Others with Life-Threatening Injuries
![Kenyan police hold back ferry passengers causing a crowd to form outside the ferry in Mombasa, Kenya on Friday, March 27, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202004afr_kenya_police_brutality_curfew.jpg?itok=X1bM28M5)
April 22, 2020
Iraq: Urgent Need for Domestic Violence Law
Increasing Concern Under Covid-19 Measures
![Demonstrators in Baghdad call International Women's Day a "day of mourning" in protest of Iraq's new draft Jaafari Personal Status Law.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2014_iraq_psl.jpg?itok=hDrJJIE5)
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April 22, 2020
Locked Out of Gaza’s Permanent Lockdown
Stuck in Jordan’s Covid-19 Shutdown, Trying to Get Home
![Abeer Almasri, Human Rights Watch’s Gaza-based research assistant, outside the Erez Crossing on July 5, 2018 on her second trip out of the Gaza Strip in her life and first time visiting Israel and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202004mena_israel_palestine_abeer_gaza.jpg?itok=72mqrH7T)
April 22, 2020
Lebanon’s Refugee Restrictions Could Harm Everyone’s Health
Fears Hamper Self-Reporting for Coronavirus
![Syrian refugees in a building under construction they have been using as a shelter in a city in southern Lebanon, on March 17, 2020, after Lebanon urged people to stay at home for two weeks to stem a novel coronavirus outbreak.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202004mena_lebanon_refugees.jpg?itok=WieB_YlM)
April 21, 2020
Russia: Kremlin Dismisses Threats Against Newspaper
New Chechen Leadership Attack on Novaya Gazeta
![Journalist Elena Milashina, following an attack in Chechnya.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202002europe_russia_milashina.jpg?itok=_VD9nTzC)
April 21, 2020
Syria: Focus New Working Group’s Efforts on ISIS Kidnappings
Local Authorities, US-led Coalition Should Provide Full Support
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April 21, 2020
Ethiopia: Unaccompanied Eritrean Children at Risk
Asylum Policy Changes Threaten Eritreans’ Rights
![Eritrean refugee children play within Hitsats refugee camp near the Eritrean boarder, Tigrai region, Ethiopia, November 9, 2017. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202004africa_ethiopia_hitsats.jpg?itok=8o9pRWHE)
April 20, 2020
Thailand: Investigate Army Torture, Murder in Drug Case
End Military Powers to Arrest, Detain Civilians on Narcotics Charges
![Father of Yuttana Saisa praying at the funeral on April 20, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202004asia_thailand_yutthana_saisa.jpg?itok=lQWNl_JM)
April 20, 2020
Heat Wave Hits Florida – and Its Unprotected Farmworkers
US States Should Adopt Heat Standards
![202004us_florida_farmworkers](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202004us_florida_farmworkers.jpg?itok=H3G3X7Vi)
April 20, 2020
Hong Kong: Crackdown Amid Covid-19
Beijing ‘Reinterprets’ City’s Constitution, Punishes Democracy Advocates
![Jimmy Lai, center, Hong Kong media tycoon and founder of local newspaper Apple Daily, is arrested by police officers at his home in Hong Kong, April 18, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202004asia_china_hong_kong_lai.jpg?itok=TEeE89M_)
April 20, 2020
Air Pollution in US Exacerbates Covid-19 Dangers
As the Bronx Shows, Greater Exposure Puts Marginalized Communities at Higher Risk
![Traffic making its way into Manhattan from Brooklyn over the Williamsburg Bridge, New York City, March 28, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202004us_newyork_environment_traffic.jpg?itok=0pciLozM)