![Activists demonstrate in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on July 19, 2018 in favor of abortion legalization.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807americas_brazil_womensrights_abortion.jpg?itok=5FQ9JBnk)
![Activists demonstrate in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on July 19, 2018 in favor of abortion legalization.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807americas_brazil_womensrights_abortion.jpg?itok=5FQ9JBnk)
July 26, 2018
New York City Grants Prisoners Free Phone Calls
Problematic Revenue Sharing Agreement with City Will Also End
![An inmate makes a phone call from his cell at the Orange County jail in Santa Ana, California, May 24, 2011.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201706united_states_criminal_justice_jail.jpg?itok=LTZvQZvI)
July 26, 2018
Ukrainian Detainee in Russia Urgently Needs Medical Help
Pavlo Hryb, 20, Abducted and Held on Terrorism Charges in Russia
![Pavlo Hryb during his court hearing in Rostov-On-Don, July 23, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807europe_russia_ukraine_pavlohryb.jpg?itok=Ane-Oeny)
July 26, 2018
New York City Seeks to Track Food Vendors Location
Increased Surveillance Could Violate Privacy Rights
![Street vendors in Queens, New York, July 25, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807us_nyc_streetvendors_0.jpg?itok=gwPBZXTe)
July 26, 2018
US: Separated Families Report Trauma, Lies, Coercion
Officials Responsible for Sparse Communications, Lagging Reunification
![Children are escorted to the Cayuga Center, which provides foster care and other services to immigrant children separated from their families, in New York City, U.S., July 10, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807usa_ny_familyseperation.jpg?itok=EbR8r6U0)
July 26, 2018
Tunisia: Landmark Proposals on Gender Bias, Privacy
Adopt Changes in Laws on Freedoms and Equality
![The president of the Commission on Individual Freedoms and Equality, Bochra bel Haj Hmida with President Béji Caid Essebsi during the handing of the Commission’s report. © 2018 Commission on Individual Freedom and Equality](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807mena_tunisia_commission_individual_freedoms.jpg?itok=AKfiQarD)
July 26, 2018
DR Congo: Threats Over Film Exposing Evictions
Documentary Alleges Abuses by President’s Family, Security Detail
![Congolese journalists Gaël Mpoyo and Franck Zongwe (top, left to right), and human rights activists Jean-Chrysostome Kijana and Fidèle Mutchungu (bottom, left to right).](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807africa_drc_mborero.jpg?itok=2p62QPML)
July 26, 2018
Revoke Discriminatory Athletics Gender Regulations
New Athletics Federation Rules Force Women with Intersex Variations Out of Competition
![Caster Semenya of South Africa, Charlene Lipsey of the united States and Lynsey Sharp of Great Britain compete in the Women's 800 metres semi finals during day eight of the 16th IAAF World Athletics Championships London 2017](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807lgbt_wrd_iaaf.jpg?itok=RGiMIRq1)
July 25, 2018
Cambodia: July 29 Elections Not Genuine
Banning Main Opposition Party Makes Vote Meaningless
![Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen attends a rally in with garment workers in Kandal province, Cambodia, July 4, 2018. REUTERS/Samrang Pring](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807asia_cambodia_elections29.jpg?itok=Z6gZBwpN)
July 25, 2018
Australia: Modern Slavery Bill Falls Short
Proposed Law Strong, But Revisions Needed to Better Protect Workers
![Women workers in a garment factory in Cambodia](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201805wrd_global_ilo_0.jpg?itok=wO_zKFKM)
July 25, 2018
EU Court Rules on Blocking Extradition to Poland
Poland’s Decimation of its Justice System Raises Fair Trial Concerns
![People gather in front of the Supreme Court during a protest against the Supreme Court legislation in Warsaw, Poland, July 22, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201804europe_poland_court_protest.jpg?itok=9Hdq3Wdp)
July 25, 2018
Sexual Violence by the Burmese Military Against Ethnic Minorities
Testimony of Skye Wheeler at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission
![A Rohingya survivor of rape in Teknaf, Bangladesh, June 25, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807asia_burma_rohingya.jpg?itok=OGYYkMnk)
July 25, 2018
US: Bill Advances Bias in Adoption, Foster Care
Strip Anti-LGBT Amendment from Funding Package
![Child welfare agencies could be allowed to discriminate under a recent amendment to legislation pending before Congress that would threaten the rights of children in care.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807lgbt_us_adoption.png?itok=s7PHWN3c)