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Pushed Into Harm's Way: Forced returns of unaccompanied migrant children to danger by the USA and Mexico
The governments of the USA and Mexico have deported tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children to their countries of origin, without adequately evaluating the potentially irreparable harm that the children might face upon their return. Furthermor
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Guidelines for Protecting the Rights of Women and Girls During the COVID-19 Pandemic
All measures taken to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic must ensure and uphold human rights. States should also ensure that their response is gender-sensitive by including approaches that guarantee the rights of women and girls to live free from violence a
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Les Manquements des Autorités Françaises aux Devoirs Élémentaires de Respecter, Protéger et Mettre en œuvre les Droits des Mineur.e.s Isolé.e.s Étranger.e.s en Danger
A l’heure où des responsables politiques remettent ouvertement en cause l’accueil ou la prise en charge des mineur.e.s isolé.e.s étranger.e.s, nous faisons état des violations des droits que ces enfants subissent aux frontières françaises. La France doit
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Guidelines for African States to Protect the Rights of Women and Girls During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Like all crises, the COVID-19 pandemic will have a distinct impact on women and girls that is both immediate and poses the risk of exacerbating pre-existing gender-based inequalities. Women and girls will be disproportionately affected and, unless their r
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Without my Family: The impact of family separation on child refugees in the UK
Every child should be able to live safely with their family. But when disaster strikes, children may need to seek safety from conflict or persecution, leaving their families behind. A few of these children find safety in the UK – where unfair immigration
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"No One Can Protect Us": War crimes and abuses in Myanmar's Rakhine state
On January 2019 the Arakan Army, an ethnic Rakhine armed group, launched coordinated attacks on police posts in the Northern Rakhine State, killing and injuring several police officers. The attacks resulted in a drastic escalation of the already existing
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An Australian Checklist for Action: Preventing and responding to conflict-related humanitarian crises
Australia has an opportunity to bring its strengths and foreign policy priorities together with its position of regional leadership to more proactively and constructively prevent and respond to conflict-related humanitarian crises. The Checklist provides
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Shamed and Blamed: Pregnant girls' rights at risk in Sierra Leone
In April 2015, the Sierra Leone Ministry of Education, Science and Technology made official government policy an existing ban on visibly pregnant girls attending schools or taking exams. In addition to pregnancy testing practices that humiliate girls, thi
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Algeria: Comprehensive reforms needed to end sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls
In this report, Amnesty International investigates sexual and gender-based violence in Algeria. Both the context and current statistics are presented as well the legal system and the judicial measures in place to combat this type of violence. In 2014, the
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Becoming a human rights friendly school: A Guide for schools around the world
The Human Rights Friendly Schools project aims to empower young people and promote the active participation of all members of the school community in integrating human rights values and principles into all areas of school life. The project is founded on t
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This is what we demand. Justice! Impunity for sexual violence against women in Colombia's armed conflict
Sexual violence is endemic to Colombia’s long-running armed conflict, now in its fifth decade. Colombia’s security forces, paramilitaries and guerrilla groups have all targeted women and girls to exploit them as sexual slaves, to wreak revenge on their ad
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RÉPLICAS: Mujeres denuncian violencia sexual en los campamentos de Haití
One year after the January 2010 earthquake that killed 230,000 people and injured 300,000, more than one million people still live in appalling conditions in tent cities in the capital Port-au-Prince and in the south of Haiti, where women are at serious r