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Hundreds of GA prison employees had a lucrative side hustle: They aided prisoners’ criminal schemes
By Danny Robbins and Carrie Teegardin On September 21, 2023 Inside Georgia’s prisons, wave after waveof prison employees have become criminals themselves — smuggling in contraband or allowing others to…
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The toll on Alabama families of uncontrolled violence in Alabama Department of Corrections’ prisons
“My daughter has nightmares and wakes up screaming and crying because all she sees is her dad being beaten and strangled and screaming for help.” – Christy Martin, whose daughter’s…
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Judges maintain bans on gender-affirming care for youth in Tennessee and Kentucky
By Jonathan Mattise On September 29, 2023 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee and Kentucky can continue to ban gender-affirming care for young transgender people while legal challenges against those state laws proceed,…
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Iran: Harassment, reprisals continue for Mahsa Amini’s family
On September 14, 2023 Twenty-two-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini was arrested and forced into a van by Iran’s so called “morality police” in the capital Tehran on 13 September last year.…
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Afghanistan: Taliban’s Gender Crimes Against Humanity
Women, Girls Are Targets; ICC Mandated to Prosecute Gender-Based Cases On September 8, 2023 (New York) – Taliban authorities in Afghanistan are committing the crime against humanity of gender persecution against women and girls,…
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Nicaragua: Continued and widespread deterioration of human rights
On September 12, 2023 DELIVERED BY Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights AT 54th session of the Human Rights Council Mr Vice President,Excellencies,Colleagues, I am deeply saddened by…
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Escalating violence threatens thousands of children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Nearly 200,000 people, half of whom are children, are now displaced across the country, with 130,000 in the capital alone. On September 11, 2023 PORT-AU-PRINCE, 11 September 2023 – A hotspot…
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Supreme Court rejects Alabama’s bid to use congressional map with just one majority-Black district
The court’s decision is in line with its June ruling in the same case that reaffirmed key protections for minority voters. By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on…
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Texas law banning some drag shows is unconstitutional, federal judge rules
By Shawna Mizelle On September 27, 2023 WashingtonCNN — A federal judge in Texas declared on Tuesday that a state law that bans “sexually oriented performances” on public property and in the presence…
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