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Press releases in 2023

Russia: 'Abominable' new legislation will inflict 'unbearable suffering' on transgender people

Country has imposed blanket ban on sex change procedures Transgender people prohibited from adopting children or serving as legal guardians Marriages will be automatically annulled where one partner...

France: Independent body needed to investigate policing after Nahel killing - new briefing

Planned demonstrations this weekend have been banned by the authorities Since 2017, use of lethal force by police officers at traffic stops has increased fivefold in France Case ‘ highlights the...

USA: Government must cancel plans to send cluster munitions to Ukraine

US government is reportedly set to announce plans to send the controversial weapons to Kyiv The munitions, which can misfire and leave deadly ordnance scattered over a wide area, have been banned by...

Sudan: Border countries must give people fleeing conflict immediate access for asylum

More than 560,000 have fled the ongoing crisis in Sudan D ire humanitarian conditions for people in Sudan and those fleeing the conflict People fleeing the conflict in Khartoum travel through...

Chechnya, Russia: 'vicious' attack on Elena Milashina and Aleksandr Nemov must be investigated

Reporter and lawyer dragged out of taxi and beaten by masked assailants early this morning Attack prevented Nemov from being in court for the sentencing of his client to five-and-a-half years in a...