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Veterans Day: Our Duty Doesn’t End When We Hang Up the Uniform

November 10, 2025

By Gretchen Klingler, Director, Veterans for American Ideals

As Veterans Day arrives this year, many of us who once wore the uniform find…

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Egypt Is Prosecuting a Mother for Reporting Her Son’s Torture

November 7, 2025

By Suchita Uppal and Mohamed Lotfy

Mohamed Lotfy is the Executive Director of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms.

On Monday, November 17, an…

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The Human Cost of Aid Cuts: Syrians Fleeing to Lebanon After the Fall of Assad

November 3, 2025

In the wake of the Assad government’s fall in December 2024, I travelled to Syria in April 2025 to hear directly about the challenges the…

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UN Special Rapporteur Reminds States of the Duties to Protect Climate HRDs 

October 29, 2025

Greater political will from governments is needed to defend those who defend rights, UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs), Mary Lawlor,…

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Why Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Institutions Remain at Risk

September 30, 2025

By Suchita Uppal

Last week, Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) carried out searches targeting former National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) detectives now working at Ukrzaliznytsia, the…

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Neither Shaming nor Naming:  New Data on the Confidential Visa Bans under Section 7031(c)

September 17, 2025

By Adam Keith

In a December 2024 request, then-Senator Ben Cardin asked the State Department to share unclassified data with Congress on the confidential…

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Dissent in A Police State: How D.C. is Fighting Back

September 17, 2025

Anyone who has lived in Washington, D.C. knows that, unlike New York or Los Angeles, it is not a city known for its…

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Explainer: Soldier F on Trial for Bloody Sunday Murders

September 16, 2025

The trial of Former British paratrooper Lance Corporal Soldier F opened this week in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is charged with two murders and five attempted murders…

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