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Demonstrators sing the national anthem during a protest in Odessa, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022. The widespread resolve against Russia's invasion of Ukraine demonstrates the power of a unified response against human rights abuses, a leading watchdog group said Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, and comes amid growing dissatisfaction with autocratic regimes, with protests in Iran, China and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Rights group: Litany of crises in 2022 but also good signs

By Edna Tarigan and David Rising - Associated Press

A man cycles through a courtyard of the destroyed School Number 23 after a Russian attack occurred in the second half of July, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) **FILE**

Forcible transfer of Ukrainians to Russia is abuse, human rights group says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 11, 2022. After rebuffing U.S. requests for months, Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu spoke with Austin on May 13. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Rights group slams Pentagon review of fatal Syria airstrike

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Riot police put out a petrol bomb hurdled during clashes with anti-government demonstrators protesting against the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifying soccer match between Argentina and Colombia near the Metropolitano stadium in Barranquilla, Colombia, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Jairo Cassiani)

Rights group: Colombian police cause deaths of 20 protesters

By Astrid Suarez - Associated Press

Illustration on the anti-Semitism of Human Rights watch by Linas Garsys/The Washington times

Human Rights Watch crosses the line with latest attack on Israel

By Clifford D. May

FILE - This June 30, 2020, file photo, shows a view of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Efrayim in the Jordan Valley. One of the world's best-known human rights groups says Israel is guilty of the international crimes of apartheid and persecution. Human Rights Watch cites discriminatory policies toward Palestinians within Israel's own borders and in the occupied territories. In so doing, the New York-based group joins a growing number of commentators and rights groups that consider Israel and the territories as a single entity in which Palestinians are denied basic rights that are granted to Jews. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Global rights group accuses Israel of apartheid, persecution

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Rights group cites abuses by Venezuelan forces near Colombia

By REGINA GARCIA CANO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, a guard tower and barbed wire fences surround an internment facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. A spokesperson for the Xinjiang region called accusations of genocide &quot;totally groundless&quot; as the British parliament approved a motion Thursday, April 22, 2021 that said China's policies amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Chinese official in Xinjiang slams UK genocide declaration

By KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 19, 2021, file photo, residents wearing masks ride pass government propaganda with slogans some of which read &quot;Forever follow the Party&quot; and &quot;China's Ethnicities One Family&quot; in the city of Aksu in western China's Xinjiang region. A human rights group appealed to the United Nations on Monday, April 19, 2021 to investigate allegations China's government is committing crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang region. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Group urges UN to probe China for crimes against humanity

By KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

Community leader Luz Nelly Santana, right, meets with other leaders who like her have received death threats in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. “I get death threats on the phone every month,&quot; Santana said, &quot;and once a man entered my office and said he was going to kill me.” (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Report: Colombia failing to protect human rights defenders

By REGINA GARCIA CANO - Associated Press

Dramatic drop in Saudi executions after laws changed in 2020

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Rights group: Tripoli should probe town’s 338 missing people

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2015 file photo, a Muslim Brotherhood member waves his hand from a defendants cage in a courtroom in Tora prison, known as Scorpion Prison, southern Cairo, Egypt. A human rights watchdog Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020 accused Egyptian authorities of making modifications to a notorious Cairo prison that amount to “collective punishment&quot; of inmates following an escape attempt that left four policemen dead. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Rights group: Egypt imposes collective punishment at prison

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South Sudan’s spy agency abuses prisoners, says rights group

By TOM ODULA and SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2020, file photo, civilians flee from Idlib toward the north to find safety inside Syria near the border with Turkey. An international human rights group said Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020 that a yearlong military campaign by Syrian and Russian forces that repeatedly attacked civilian targets in the last rebel stronghold in northwestern Syria constituted apparent war crimes and may amount to crimes against humanity. (AP Photo/File)

Rights group suspects Russia, Syria war crimes in Idlib

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