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Students of the Warkak's accelerated learning center in Daikundi Province, Afghanistan, walk home together over the dusty hills.

A woman walks past destroyed apartment buildings and vehicles in Chernihiv, Ukraine.

Donor governments should address the unprecedented education crisis in Lebanon at the funding conference on May 10, 2022, in Brussels, the Center for Lebanese Studies and Human Rights Watch said on May 06, 2022. Public schools for hundreds of thousands of Lebanese and Syrian students have largely been closed for the last three school years.

Iranian authorities have increased their crackdown against teachers organizing for their rights, Human Rights Watch said on May 5, 2022. The authorities should immediately and unconditionally release teachers detained for engaging in peaceful protests and labor organization.

Journalists and media workers are facing “increasing politicization” of their work and threats to their freedom to simply do their jobs, that are “growing by the day”, said the UN chief, marking World Press Freedom Day on Tuesday.

Forces in the Central African Republic, whom witnesses identified as Russian, appear to have summarily executed, tortured, and beaten civilians since 2019, Human Rights Watch said on May 03, 2022. National authorities, the country’s Special Criminal Court (SCC), or the International Criminal Court (ICC), should investigate these incidents as well as other credible allegations of abuse by Russia-linked forces with a view to criminal prosecution.

Escalating violence against journalists in Mexico is seriously undermining press freedom, Human Rights Watch said on May 3, on World Press Freedom Day. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador should take urgent steps to strengthen the federal government protection mechanism, stop official harassment of journalists who criticize the government, and ensure prosecutors end the near-total impunity for these crimes.

There is mounting evidence that El Salvadoran authorities have been committing serious human rights violations since adopting a state of emergency on March 27, 2022, Human Rights Watch and Cristosal said on May 2, 2022. The organizations, which are jointly monitoring the state of emergency, have received credible allegations of dozens of arbitrary arrests, including some that could amount to short-term enforced disappearances, and of two deaths of people in custody.

Iranian workers are facing mounting economic and political challenges to realizing their labor rights, Human Rights Watch and Human Rights Activists (HRA), an Iranian human rights documentation group said, ahead of International Workers’ Day on May 1, 2022.

Refugees from Ukraine, particularly women and girls, face heightened risks of gender-based violence, trafficking, and other exploitation due to lack of systematic protection and security measures in Poland.