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March 15, 2018
Hungary’s Government Turns on the UN
Country Ramps-Up Anti-Refugee Rhetoric Before Elections
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March 14, 2018
Letter to Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston
March 14, 2018
Sri Lanka Bans Cluster Munitions
Becomes 103rd State Party to the International Treaty
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March 14, 2018
US Senators Urge EPA to Keep Protecting Kids from Pesticides
Environmental Agency Threatening to Roll Back Obama-Era Pesticide Safeguards
![Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, answers a question during the Concordia Summit in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 19, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201803us_environment_pruitt_epa.jpg?itok=VykGHPW3)
March 14, 2018
Brazil Boosts Transgender Legal Recognition
Supreme Court Removes Medical and Judicial Criteria to Change Legal Gender
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March 14, 2018
White House Shakeup Threatens Legal Protections
Pompeo, Haspel Have History of Endorsing Torture
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March 14, 2018
US Detains Yet Another Immigrant Rights Activist
Alejandra Pablos Detained by Immigration Officers in Arizona
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March 14, 2018
Philippines’ Duterte Tries to Run from Justice
ICC’s ‘Drug War’ Examination Not Stopped by Withdrawal from Court
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March 14, 2018
Italy Shuts Down ‘Worrying’ Migrant Hotspot
Temporary Closure Follows Protests About Degrading Conditions
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March 14, 2018
Saudi Arabia: Allegations of Abuse, Death in Custody
Detainees Accused of Corruption Denied Due Process
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