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Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky.

Revised EU rules to prevent trade in goods and services that may contribute to torture or execution were approved by MEPs on Tuesday. In negotiations with member states on previous drafts, the European Parliament inserted a ban on the marketing and transit of equipment used for cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of people in third countries.

The Opetusalan Ammattijärjestö, together with the Finnish trade union movement, has backed a demonstration against racism and violent right-wing extremism which received widespread national public support.

For the past four years, the Kremlin has sought to stigmatize criticism or alternative views of government policy as disloyal, foreign-sponsored, or even traitorous. It is part of a sweeping crackdown to silence critical voices that has included new legal restrictions on the internet, on freedom of expression, on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, and on other fundamental freedoms.

UNICEF Representative in Syria Hanaa Singer shown with children during a visit on 29 September 2016 to western Aleppo, where she met with UNICEF health, water and sanitation partners.

Afghanistan’s foreign donors should press the government to safeguard gains in education and promote civilian protection, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to foreign leaders on Oct 02. Participating countries to the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan on October 5, 2016, are expected to reaffirm their financial support to the Afghan government at a time when continuing conflict, widening insecurity, and political infighting threaten the government’s reform agenda.

The United Nations Security Council should demand that Syrian and Russian forces immediately halt unlawful attacks in eastern Aleppo and ensure that aid workers can safely deliver humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the city.

Ongoing military operations in a previously peaceful part of South Sudan have trapped an estimated 100,000 people in a town that is facing a humanitarian crisis, raising concerns for civilians’ safety.

The US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina on September 29 issued a preliminary injunction that orders the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to stop capturing and killing—and authorizing private landowners to capture and kill—members of the rapidly dwindling population of wild red wolves.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a court Thursday for an order that would prevent the government from prosecuting its client, security researcher Matthew Green, for publishing a book about making computer systems more secure.