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Aug 15 NGOs call for international community to end Afghans’ ‘new wave of hardships’

Aug 15 Philippines: New migrant workers agency to give ‘utmost protection’ to domestic helpers

Aug 15 Indonesian berry pickers in UK farm saddled with debts

Aug 14 US needs concrete actions to ‘lay the scourge of racism to rest’, UN expert says

Aug 14 UN human rights chief goes to Bangladesh for first ever official visit

Aug 14 Taliban fire guns to disperse protesting Afghan women in Kabul

Aug 12 UK records surge in human trafficking referrals, data shows

Aug 12 UN human rights chief slams ‘unconscionable’ killing of Palestinian children

Aug 12 US State Secretary rebukes Rwanda over human rights concerns

Aug 11 Some Muslims in US feel shock, shame over arrest of Afghan for New Mexico murders

Aug 11 Outrage sparks over rise of campus femicide in Egypt

Aug 11 Biden calls on Syrian government to help secure release of journalist

Aug 11 South African authorities charge seven over gang rape of eight women

Aug 11 Israel: Bus company apologises after Palestinian workers forced to get off bus

Aug 10 Proof of crimes against humanity in Myanmar mounts, says UN

Aug 10 Ethiopia: More than 750,000 refugees will run out of food by October

Aug 10 Migrants and refugees offered ‘summer sale’ to cross English Channel

Aug 10 Iran releases academic Fariba Adelkhah on furlough

Aug 09 UN calls for prosecution of South Sudan officials involved in sexual violence

Aug 09 UN Rights Committee reviews anti-discrimination efforts in seven states

Aug 09 Activists expose racism in French Riviera with hidden cameras

Aug 09 ILO calls for workers protection as temperatures soar in Iraq

Aug 08 UK schemes to resettle Afghan refugees failed, human rights groups say

Aug 08 Bangladesh seeks China’s support for Rohingya refugees repatriation