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Rights abuses seen in US-Ecuador joint operations
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on July 21 detailing four attacks on Ecuadorian persons, properties and vessels that they attribute to an intensified counter-narcotics campaign led by the US with the partnership of the Ecuadorian government.
Demand EU halt migration collaboration with Libya
A group of 31 international human rights organizations on July 17 called on the EU and its member states to end their cooperation with Libyan authorities on migration control. The groups expressed alarm at plans to strengthen cooperation with the rival authorities in Eastern and Western Libya, which both have a longstanding record of grave rights abuses against refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.
Demand justice in massacre of Honduran peasants
UN Special Rapporteur Morris Tidball-Binz on July 17 condemned the killing of 20 Honduran peasants earlier this year, and called for those responsible to be brought to justice. He also called for authorities to ensure that the victims' families are provided with reparations, and take measures to ensure that there will be no further outbreaks of violence.
Mahmoud Khalil sues US officials, pro-Israel groups
Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian rights activist, filed a lawsuit July 14 in US federal court in Manhattan alleging a "coordinated" conspiracy between senior Trump administration officials and three private organizations to target him for deportation over his advocacy work. Khalil is a former Columbia University graduate student who became the public face of the Trump administration's crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activism.
US to seek dismantling of International Criminal Court
The US will launch a diplomatic campaign aimed at dismantling the International Criminal Court, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced July 6. In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, Rubio wrote that the US will work alongside allied governments to take the Court apart "brick by brick, if necessary," using all tools at the government's disposal. He said the campaign's message to other governments will be a choice of "sovereign states over globalism," and pledged that the administration will protect US service members from ICC jurisdiction.
Mexico to seek charges over deaths in ICE custody
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said July 9 that her government plans to seek criminal complaints in the United States over the deaths of Mexican citizens while in immigration custody or during anti-immigration operations.
Pakistan: life sentence for Baloch activist
UN experts on July 8 condemned the sentencing of Pakistani human rights defender Mahrang Baloch to two terms of life imprisonment by a court in Quetta, describing it as a "travesty" of justice.
Turkish environmental activist faces prison
Amnesty International on July 6 condemned the conviction in Türkiye of environmental activist Esra Işık. Amnesty's deputy regional director for Europe, Esther Major, spoke on the broader impacts of the conviction on the fight to defend the environment:












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