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The firing of Szabolcs Dull, the editor-in-chief of Hungary’s biggest independent news website, Index, on July 22, 2020 has political interference written all over it, Human Rights Watch said on July 24,2020. The dismissal is a blow to media independence and diversity.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is preventing about 1,200 Arab families from returning home to 5 villages more than 6 years after the area was retaken from the Islamic State (also known as ISIS), Human Rights Watch said on July 19, 2020. KRG authorities have allowed Kurdish residents in neighboring villages, in the Rabia subdistrict, west of Dohuk, to return.

Inequality, an issue which “defines our time”, risks destroying the world’s economies and societies, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a hard-hitting speech on Saturday.

The container ship MSC Daniela at sea.

Women and children sit on mattresses on the floor at a detention centre in Tripoli, Libya.

A sample of gold taken from a mine.

Russian authorities have placed a prominent human rights defender under a travel ban and may soon formally bring criminal charges against him in relation to the “foreign agents” law, Human Rights Watch said on July 15, 2020.

Burundi’s new president, Évariste Ndayishimiye, should make protecting and promoting human rights a priority during his presidency, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the president made public on July 15, 2020. The new administration has taken positive initial steps to tackle Covid-19 but faces enormous challenges.

The Maldives government is enforcing restrictions on protests that violate fundamental rights, Human Rights Watch said on July 14, 2020. New regulations also threaten civil society groups for supporting peaceful protests.

A Ukrainian journalist who wrote about the alleged influence of far-right groups on a fact-checking organization is receiving death threats, and her personal information has been published online, Human Rights Watch said on July 14, 2020.