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Helsinki+50 Conference - OSCE - Helsinki, Finland

Federico Borello, Interim Executive Director of Human Rights Watch attends the opening of the Helsinki+50 Conference in Helsinki, Finland on July 31, 2025. The conference marks the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. LEHTIKUVA / MIKKO STIG - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Mikko Stig/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Helsinki+50 Conference - OSCE - Helsinki, Finland

Federico Borello, Interim Executive Director of Human Rights Watch attends the opening of the Helsinki+50 Conference in Helsinki, Finland on July 31, 2025. The conference marks the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. LEHTIKUVA / MIKKO STIG - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Mikko Stig/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Helsinki+50 Conference - OSCE - Helsinki, Finland

Federico Borello, Interim Executive Director of Human Rights Watch attends the opening of the Helsinki+50 Conference in Helsinki, Finland on July 31, 2025. The conference marks the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. LEHTIKUVA / MIKKO STIG - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Mikko Stig/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Alumni Doi at Univ. of Tokyo welcome ceremony

Japan director of international NGO Human Rights Watch and University of Tokyo alumni Kanae Doi delivers a speech to new students of the university at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo on April 11, 2025.

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

Residents navigate the rubble in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, after an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

People walk through the rubble in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

Residents navigate the rubble in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, after an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

People walk through the rubble in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

Residents navigate the rubble in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, after an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

People walk through the rubble in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

People walk through the rubble in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

Destroyed buildings in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, after an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

Destroyed buildings in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, after an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

Men stand on the rubble of their neighborhood in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, after an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

People walk through the rubble in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

A man, carrying a child on his shoulders, stands on the ruins of their neighborhood in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

Children amidst the rubble of destroyed homes in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

A man searches through the rubble in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

Destroyed buildings in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, after an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

Children walk through the ruins in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, after an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

A child searches through the rubble in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

A man, carrying a child on his shoulders, stands on the ruins of their neighborhood in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

A man stands near the rubble in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, after an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

A man walks through the ruins of a building in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

A child searches through the rubble in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

A man walks through the ruins of a building in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

A man navigates buildings reduced to rubble in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, after an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

A man walks through the ruins of a building in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

A child stands amidst the rubble of destroyed homes in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

A child searches through the rubble in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

A child searches for belongings among the ruins in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

A man, carrying a child on his shoulders, stands on the ruins of their neighborhood in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

A man, carrying a child on his shoulders, stands on the ruins of their neighborhood in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, following an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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HRW Accuses Israel Of Crimes Against Humanity - Gaza

A boy observes the destruction in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2024, after an Israeli strike. Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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LIBYA-BASHER AREA-STRANDED AFRICAN MIGRANTS

(230731) -- BASHER AREA, July 31, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Staff members of the desert patrols of the Libyan Illegal Immigration Control Department and some stranded African migrants are seen in Basher area at the Libya-Tunisia border, Libya, on July 30, 2023. More than 100 illegal African migrants remain stranded at the Libya-Tunisia border after being expelled by the Tunisian authorities in the past few weeks. According to Human Rights Watch, these migrants from different African nationalities are faced with a lack of food, drinking water and shelter at the border and are in need of help. (Photo by Hamza Turkia/Xinhua)

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LIBYA-BASHER AREA-STRANDED AFRICAN MIGRANTS

(230731) -- BASHER AREA, July 31, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Some stranded African migrants are seen in Basher area at the Libya-Tunisia border, Libya, on July 30, 2023. More than 100 illegal African migrants remain stranded at the Libya-Tunisia border after being expelled by the Tunisian authorities in the past few weeks. According to Human Rights Watch, these migrants from different African nationalities are faced with a lack of food, drinking water and shelter at the border and are in need of help. (Photo by Hamza Turkia/Xinhua)

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Over 100 illegal migrants stranded at Libya-Tunisia border

STORY: Over 100 illegal migrants stranded at Libya-Tunisia border DATELINE: July 28, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:28 LOCATION: Tripoli CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the illegal African migrants STORYLINE: More than 100 illegal African migrants remain stranded at the Libya-Tunisia border after being expelled by the Tunisian authorities in the past few weeks. According to Human Rights Watch, these migrants from different African nationalities are faced with a lack of food, drinking water and shelter at the border and are in need of help. Tunisian security forces have "collectively" expelled several hundred Black African migrants and asylum-seekers, including children and pregnant women, since July 2 to a remote, militarized buffer zone at the Tunisia-Libya border. The Libyan Red Crescent said it provided the migrants with humanitarian assistance, confirming that it is intensifying efforts with United Nations agencies, humanitarian and government organizations to ease the suffering of the migrants at th

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Prominent Chinese journalist Gao's son missing

BEIJING, China - Prominent Chinese journalist Gao Yu is photographed in Beijing in November 2013. Her son is missing, a human rights watch group in Hong Kong reported on May 8, 2014. Gao was detained on April 24, 2014, over her alleged role in disclosing confidential government information.

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HRW Japan director

TOKYO, Japan - Kanae Doi, a lawyer and director of Human Rights Watch Japan, holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 1, 2014.

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Chinese activist under U.S. protection

BEIJING, China - Photo taken April 28, 2012, shows police vehicles keeping watch on the U.S. Embassy (shown in the background) in Beijing. Prominent Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has apparently been given sanctuary at the embassy after fleeing from house arrest, Texas-based human rights group ChinaAid and Chen's supporters said the same day.

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Human Rights Watch executive director

TOKYO, Japan - Kenneth Roth, executive director of the New-York based Human Rights Watch group, speaks at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on July 6, 2011. Roth criticized China's crackdown on a pro-democracy drive in the country in February that year inspired by political changes in Middle Eastern and North African countries.

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Wahid to watch human rights records under Megawati

BALTIMORE, United States - Former Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at a Baltimore hotel July 31. He said he will retire from politics and create a private foundation to monitor human rights under new President Megawati Sukarnoputri.

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Relatives of abductees call on North Korea for swift return

Takuya Yokota of Japan, a younger brother of Megumi Yokota who was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977 at age 13, speaks during an event organized by Human Rights Watch in Geneva on Sept. 21, 2015. Family members of other abductees from Japan, South Korea and Thailand also took part in the event on the sidelines of the regular session of the U.N. Human Rights Council. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Human Rights Watch member discusses Islamic State insurgency

Peter Bouckaert, emergency director at Human Rights Watch, an international nongovernmental organization, talks about how to cope with the Islamic State militant group during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on April 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Rights group seeks LGBT-inclusive curriculum

Kanae Doi, Japan director of Human Rights Watch, works at her office in Tokyo on Oct. 26, 2016. The international rights body is urging the government to give ample consideration to sexual minority students in compiling educational guidelines and teacher training programs so they can be protected from harassment and bullying at school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Human Rights Watch executive director

TOKYO, Japan - Kenneth Roth, executive director of the New-York based Human Rights Watch group, speaks at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on July 6, 2011. Roth criticized China's crackdown on a pro-democracy drive in the country in February that year inspired by political changes in Middle Eastern and North African countries. (Kyodo)

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Chinese activist under U.S. protection

BEIJING, China - Photo taken April 28, 2012, shows police vehicles keeping watch on the U.S. Embassy (shown in the background) in Beijing. Prominent Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has apparently been given sanctuary at the embassy after fleeing from house arrest, Texas-based human rights group ChinaAid and Chen's supporters said the same day. (Kyodo)

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Iranian women attend soccer match

Iranian women enjoy a rare chance to attend a soccer match at Azadi Stadium in Tehran on Oct. 10, 2019. Authorities allowed them to watch a World Cup qualifier against Cambodia in response to calls by FIFA and human rights organizations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Iranian women attend soccer match

Iranian women enjoy a rare chance to attend a soccer match at Azadi Stadium in Tehran on Oct. 10, 2019. Authorities allowed them to watch a World Cup qualifier against Cambodia in response to calls by FIFA and human rights organizations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Iranian women attend soccer match

Iranian women enjoy a rare chance to attend a soccer match at Azadi Stadium in Tehran on Oct. 10, 2019. Authorities allowed them to watch a World Cup qualifier against Cambodia in response to calls by FIFA and human rights organizations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo