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Said and Yarg were born into slavery in Mauritania. Despite six years’ legal battle they still haven’t seen their former master brought to justice.

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir condemned recent attacks against Turkish Cypriot newspaper Afrika’s Office in Nicosia, on January 25.

Preparing for the 2018 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The US should renew its grant of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to almost 7,000 Syrians living in the United States, Human Rights Watch said on Jan 24, 2018. Anyone forced to return to Syria would face grave risks from the widespread conflict and violations of human rights and international humanitarian law there.

The Indonesian military should deter abuses by its personnel and hold human rights violators accountable, Human Rights Watch said in a letter made public to the new Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI) commander, Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto on Jan 25, 2018. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo named Tjahjanto, the former air force chief, to the position on January 18.

A Tunisian blogger who recently won election to parliament is facing two military court trials for criticizing the army and its top brass on social media, Human Rights Watch said on Jan 24, 2018.

Forced labor and other rights abuses are widespread in Thailand’s fishing fleets despite government commitments to comprehensive reforms, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Jan 23, 2018. The report and a 15-minute film were released at a briefing at the European Parliament on January 23.

MEPs put children at the forefront of their concerns on Thursday when adopting their proposals to change EU laws on resolving international divorce disputes

MEPs call for elections in Democratic Republic of Congo, condemn violence in Nigeria and urge China to release human rights activists.

Bangladesh’s decision on January 22, 2018, to delay the repatriation of Rohingya refugees to Burma should be followed by suspending the bilateral plan, which threatens the refugees’ security and well-being, Human Rights Watch said on Jan 23, 2018. On January 16, Burma and Bangladesh announced an agreement that provides additional details on a plan that would repatriate over 770,000 mostly Rohingya Muslim refugees who left Burma’s Rakhine State since October 2016.