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An officer of the National Police shoots at a group of people outside the shopping mall Metrocentro in Managua, Nicaragua, May 28, 2018.

Governments and Internet companies are failing to meet challenges of online hate.

Azerbaijan police violently dispersed two peaceful protests in central Baku on October 19 and 20, 2019, Human Rights Watch said on Oct 22, 2019. Police rounded up dozens of peaceful opposition and civic activists, beating and roughing them up while forcing them onto buses and into police cars.

Profiles of political prisoners on HRW Cambodia Political Prisoner webpage.

OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani.

Relief services search for survivors after an airstrike on a private residence by an armed group known as the Libyan National Army killed three children on October 14, 2019 in Tripoli, Libya.

The Human Rights Council, Geneva

Guinea’s government should end its crackdown on the right to protest by releasing civil society leaders and demonstrators opposed to a new constitution, Human Rights Watch said on Oct 18, 2019. The government should also investigate the killings of protesters and one gendarme during three days of demonstrations which began October 14, 2019 in the capital, Conakry, and in towns in Guinea’s interior.

Governments should heed the call of the United Nations’ leading expert on poverty to fully integrate human rights protections into their efforts to digitize and automate welfare benefits and services, seven human rights groups said on Oct 17, 2019.

ress Briefing by Ms. Agnes Callamard, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.