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Two Years After #MeToo Erupts, A New Treaty Anchors Workplace Shifts

Two Years After #MeToo Erupts, A New Treaty Anchors Workplace Shifts

Shutting Down the Internet to Shut Up Critics

Shutting Down the Internet to Shut Up Critics

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Going to the Bank for Food, Not Money: The Growing Reality of Hunger in “Rich” Countries

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As Killer Robots Loom, Demands Grow to Keep Humans in Control of Use of Force

Holding Companies to Account: Momentum Builds for Corporate Human Rights Duties

Holding Companies to Account: Momentum Builds for Corporate Human Rights Duties

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Forest Guardians
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Franciel Souza Guajajara, then coordinator of the Wazayzar, or “keepers of the culture,” of Araribóia Indigenous Territory, in Maranhão State, leads a group of guardians on a foot patrol near the village of Lagoa Comprida in June 2018. The Wazayzar of the Tenetehara Indigenous people patrol the territory and report the illegal logging they encounter to authorities.

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Members of the Wazayzar.

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Franciel Souza Guajajara leads a meeting of the Wazayzar  before setting out on patrol in the village of Lagoa Comprida in June 2018.

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Eýy Cy, 31, holds his son in the main square of Governador village, where he is chief, in Governador Indigenous Territory in Maranhão State in June 2018. The Pyhcop Catiji people who live there have set up a group of “Forest Guardians,” who patrol the forest to detect illegal logging.

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A Pyhcop Catiji woman uses paint extracted from the jenipapo fruit to draw traditional patterns on a boy´s skin. The Indigenous people of Governador Indigenous Territory use body paints for decoration and ceremonies. 

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The Pyhcop Catiji Indigenous people set up a rudimentary road block to detect logging trucks carrying illegally-harvested timber from Governador and Araribóia Indigenous Territory, in Maranhão State, in June 2018.

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Pyhcop Catiji Indigenous people hired by IBAMA, Brazil´s main federal environmental agency, to prevent and fight forest fires perform exercises in Governador Indigenous Territory in June 2018.

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One of two illegal sawmills found by Human Rights Watch about five kilometers outside Governador Indigenous territory, in the outskirts of Amarante do Maranhão in June 2018. This sawmill was in the open, unobscured by any fences or trees, a few hundred meters from a main road, and hooked to the town´s power grid.

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Jaciane Guajajara (left) and Graça Guajajara remember their father Tomé Guajajara, who was killed in 2007 by loggers who invaded their village to recover a logging truck apprehended by Indigenous people inside the Araribóia Indigenous territory. Twelve years on, there has been no trial.  

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Cláudio José da Silva, the coordinator of the “Forest Guardians” of Caru Indigenous Territory, Maranhão State, at the bank of the Pindaré river in June 2018. The Guardians are Tenetehara Indigenous people who patrol the land to detect illegal logging and report it to the authorities.

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The “Forest Guardians” of Caru Indigenous Territory, Maranhão State, prepare for a patrol in June 2018. The Guardians are Tenetehara Indigenous people who patrol the land to detect illegal logging and report it to the authorities.

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Scenes of the Pindaré river, which marks the limit between the mostly deforested areas around the Caru Indigenous Territory, in Maranhão, and the lush rainforest inside, in June 2018. Loggers cross the river into the territory to extract timber illegally, Indigenous people say.

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Cattle near Governador Indigenous territory, Maranhão State, in June 2018. The Pyhcop Catiji Indigenous people protect a remnant of Amazon rainforest surrounded by cattle ranches, mostly devoid of trees.

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Discrimination and Barriers to Education for Persons with Albinism in Mozambique
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Josina, a girl with albinism, sits in her classroom in Chiuta District in Mozambique’s Tete province.

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Revita, Josina’s teacher, allows her sit up close in class and gives her extra time during exams. Since last June, Revita said that some schools have introduced Braille classes, which Josina was taking.

Revita, Josina’s teacher, allows her sit up close in class and gives her extra time during exams. Since last June, Revita said that some schools have introduced Braille classes, which Josina was taking.

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Josina (left) with her niece, Luisa, both eight at the time. “She is my best friend,” said Josina. “She is always asking if I’m ok, she helps me read after school, and she looks after me.

Josina (left) with her niece, Luisa, both eight at the time. “She is my best friend,” said Josina. “She is always asking if I’m ok, she helps me read after school, and she looks after me.

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Fatima, 20, dropped out of Grade 5 after teachers bullied her because she has albinism. When she would try to sit in the front of the class to better see the blackboard, one teacher would yell, “You albino, you stay where you are!” Her father complained to the school but it only made things worse. “When the teacher would say those things to me, it allowed the students to do the same,” Fatima said. “There were no consequences for any of them.”

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“My dream was to become a teacher. It's good work. I still have the dream but I can't go to school,” said Joao, 19, who dropped out of school for fear of kidnapping. He now works in the fields with his father, where he plants beans and maize. The work is hard and painful, because the sun hurts his skin.

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Students with albinism are not the only ones to face stigma. Cesaria, a teacher, has overheard students wishing aloud for another teacher because of her albinism. She is often called “money” or “business” outside of class. “When people say terrible things to me, I never answer,” Cesaria said. “I wonder why can't they treat me like a normal person?”

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When Nelson, 13, was born, his father thought it was because of witchcraft. In September 2018 assailants broke into his house in what appeared to be a kidnapping attempt.  He is afraid to go to school.

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Luisinho, 26, quit his job selling second-hand clothes on the street because he could not afford sunscreen and his skin would burn. He tries to find work as a singer.

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Flavia Pinto, head of Azemap, a volunteer-run organization that supports people with albinism, with a toddler that she is in the process of adopting. The child’s father was convicted of attempting to sell him.

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Flavia Pinto, head of Azemap, with one of her organization’s beneficiaries. Founded in 2016 to support persons with albinism, volunteer-run Azemap provides much-needed supplies –such as soap for sensitive skin, sunscreen, prescription glasses, eye drops—to children with albinism across Tete province.

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Discrimination and Barriers to Education for Persons with Albinism in Mozambique

Philippines’ ‘War on Drugs’
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“Robert” was right behind the gunman when he shot the boy’s father, “Renato Aldeguer,” on December 19, 2016. He said his father, who scavenged for scraps for a living, was a good man. Since his death, the four Aldeguer children have been living in the streets of Mandaluyong City because their relationship with their mother fell apart. Photo taken in February 2019.

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Children carry the coffin of “Veneracion” to the top of an apartment-type grave in a cemetery in Mandaluyong City on December 29, 2016. A masked gunman shot her in the head while she ate dinner outside a convenient store on December 16, 2016. Three days later, at her wake, her brother-in-law, “Renato Aldeguer,” was shot dead, leaving behind young children.

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Karla with her brother Robert and their cousins spend their day near the Marketplace mall in Kalentong, Mandaluyong City, in February 2019. They were looking for her brother John, who would often go missing.

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“John” lies on a ledge in the streets of Mandaluyong City in January 2019. He witnessed his father being shot by a masked gunman on December 19, 2016. He grabbed his father from behind while the gunman was shooting him and was wounded in the leg.

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According to his mother, “Kyle,” who is 5 in this February 2019 photo, became more violent after his father was killed in November 2016. His father, “Alvin Ricaforte,” was found dead on the Delpan bridge, in Tondo, Manila, his face wrapped in packaging tape and bearing multiple stab wounds in the chest. According to Kyle’s mother, Ricaforte’s body was shown on TV several times and Kyle recognized him.

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“Zeny” got depressed and lost her Job after her husband “Alvin Ricaforte” was killed. She says she cannot control her son, Kyle, and is  now worried that she might lose her job again. Photo taken in February 2019.

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“Jennifer” was 11 when her father was shot dead in December 2016 during a drug raid in their home in Payatas, Quezon City, February 2019.

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“Rose” and “Eddie” playing on their couch in February 2019, inside their house in Quezon City. The single couch on the right is where their father, “Benigno Mercado,” was shot dead in December 2016 while pleading for his life from gunmen.

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"Pocholo," 17, in February 2019, admitted using drugs but dropped the habit when President Rodrigo Duterte launched his “war on drugs.” The police still harassed him, threatening to kill him when he turned 18. Fearing for his life, he decided to seek refuge at a children’s group south of Manila.

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Children cover their noses from the smell during a mass burial on January 24, 2017, of unclaimed bodies in a cemetery in Navotas, a city in Metro Manila that has been hard hit in the “drug war.”

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Philippines’ ‘War on Drugs’

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