June 18, 2020
School Closures Hurt Even More in Afghanistan
Pandemic Creates New Barriers for Women and Girls Already Facing Deep Inequality
![2017wrd_Afghanistan_Education](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201710wrd_afghanistan_education.jpg?itok=V-6KDv5z)
![Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen gestures during a speech on the current state of a new virus from China in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202003asia_cambodia_hunsen.jpg?itok=fi-U-ECN)
June 17, 2020
Police Targeting ‘Street Medics’ at US Protests
![Medics and volunteers march with thousands of people gathered around Lafayette Square, in Washington, DC, to protest the death of George Floyd. [June?] 6, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/06/202006us_protests_medics.jpg?h=0c2904f9&itok=o2Xpqg6b)
June 17, 2020
Challenging Injustice on South African Youth Day
Remembering the Soweto Uprising Amid New Calls for Reform
![FILE: A South African youth holds a placard during the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the uprisings in Soweto, South Africa, Friday, June 16, 2006.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/06/202006africa_SA_youthday.jpg?h=3c16cf49&itok=gs-E-jBX)
June 17, 2020
An Unexpected Hero Takes Aim at UK Child Hunger
Football Star’s Free School Meals Campaign Should Spur Wider Change
![Footballer Marcus Rashford applauds following a game.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/06/202006eca_uk_Rashford.jpg?h=99b95e68&itok=QpUQRNYf)
June 17, 2020
China: Scrap National Security Law to Save Hong Kong Freedoms
86 Groups Call for Protection of Human Rights, Civil Liberties
![Li Zhanshu, National People's Congress Chairman delivers a speech during the second plenary session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, May 25, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/06/202006asia_china_hong%20kong_npc.jpg?h=9eb0d413&itok=ZiMij-4a)
June 17, 2020
Letter to UK Prime Minister on Gender Recognition Reform
![The transgender pride flag.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201911lgbt_global_transflag.jpg?itok=Z5wDszC0)
June 16, 2020
Video of Domestic Abuse Sparks Outrage in Kyrgyzstan
Calls to Strengthen Justice and Support for Abuse Survivors
![An artistic representation of a domestic violence case in Kyrgyzstan.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/06/202006eca_kyrgyzstan_domesticviolence_zelenskaya.jpg?h=dcbe5187&itok=2ISWn3vs)
June 16, 2020
China’s Zoom Bomb
![Signage at the headquarters of videoconferencing, remote work, and webinar technology company Zoom (ZM) in the Silicon Valley, San Jose, California, March 28, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/06/202006business_internet_zoom.jpg?h=b32403ac&itok=5qE4t306)
June 16, 2020
Mexico President López Obrador Frets About the Spreading Virus of Fake News, but not COVID-19
![President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Sanjuana Martínez, director of Notimex, during the morning conference on Friday, July 19, 2019 at the National Palace.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/06/061620Amer_Mexico_amlo.jpg?h=7d358802&itok=e1ANR1Wt)
June 16, 2020
States Should Oppose China’s Disingenuous Resolution on “Mutually Beneficial Cooperation”
Resolution Benefits Chinese Government, Not Human Rights
June 16, 2020
For Sarah Hegazy: In Rage, in Grief, in Exhaustion
![Young people wave a rainbow flag at a Cairo concert featuring the Lebanese Band Mashrou’ Leila. Activist Ahmed Alaa confirmed that he raised a rainbow flag at the concert in a Buzzfeed video including this image prior to his arrest.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201710lgbt_egypt_mashrou.jpg?itok=1OR8BQDn)
June 16, 2020
Panama Took Positive Step on Transgender People’s Rights
Security Forces Ordered Not to Discriminate in Covid-19 Quarantine
![Women practice social distancing as they wait in line to enter a supermarket, on a day that men must stay indoors in Panama City on April 3, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/06/061620Amer_Panama_trans.jpg?h=9042897a&itok=NJ8AbFeu)