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• [New] Because of the widespread and systematic persecution of the Uyghur people, Human Rights Watch regards Uyghurs from Xinjiang outside China as having a well-founded fear of being persecuted should they be forcibly returned. Human Rights Watch
• [New] The United States should ensure that an investment of its security assets would receive and maintain an enduring welcome, and that cooperation would not entangle or enable human rights abuses that could harm the United States' effectiveness. George W. Bush Presidential Center
• [New] The use of Chinese surveillance technology outside the PRC and the development or use of Chinese surveillance technology to facilitate repression or serious human rights abuse constituted unusual and extraordinary threats to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. Federal Register
• [New] Serbia is expected to overcome the standstill in the area of judiciary and fundamental rights overall and urgently reverse the backsliding on freedom of expression and the erosion of academic freedom. Enlargement and Eastern Neighbourhood
• [New] As global challenges and threats to rights grow, courage is more essential than ever to defend values, resist injustice, and shape a fairer future. inwink
• [New] Organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, European Digital Rights, and numerous national privacy advocacy groups have played a crucial role in educating the public about the risks of Chat Control. Andrea Fortuna
• [New] Needed will be more conservative - family and freedom-focused - thinking, better persuasion about why history, individual liberty, free markets, and what have always been core American strengths matter - and why communism always fails. AMAC - The Association of Mature American Citizens
• [New] Multiple dimensions of AI that stakeholders believe require regulation, spanning from immediate harms to long-term risks, and from technical safeguards to fundamental rights protection. Digital Watch Observatory
• [New] Israel had increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians, including forced public stripping and nudity, sexual harassment including threats of rape, as well as sexual assault. BBC News
• [New] The World Economic Forum defines data equity as the shared responsibility for fair data practices that respect and promote human rights, opportunity and dignity. PubMed Central (PMC)
• [New] In the past decade, Ecuador's highest court has set a global example in its rulings in favour of the rights of nature, most famously in 2021 when it declared mining permits in the Los Cedros cloud forest were unconstitutional because they threatened the biodiversity of a protected forest. The Guardian
• [New] If the Supreme Court further weakens the Voting Rights Act, Republicans could eliminate numerous seats held by Black and Latino Democrats, deepening racial and political inequality. @mathrubhumi
• [New] Tens of thousands have taken to the streets of Portugal's capital, Lisbon, to protest against proposed labour laws which they say threaten workers' rights. BBC News
• [New] The biggest risk in 2025 is content rights and compliance - especially as UGC moderation trends tighten across platforms. Vidlo
• [New] Failing to implement a strategy risks Europe losing its freedom and autonomy. Bruegel | The Brussels-based economic think tank
• The local ruling elites are well aware that the violent uprising that began in May in New Caledonia, following riots in Papua New Guinea last January, could spark similar rebellions across the impoverished region, where living standards are being ground down by inflation and deepening inequality. World Socialist Web Site
• High levels of inequality are linked to outbreaks becoming pandemics and that inequality is undermining national and global responses, making pandemics more disruptive, deadly, and longer in duration. EATG
• While income inequality between individuals declined in recent decades, largely due to economic development in China, there had been a major increase in inherited wealth, with $70 trillion expected to be handed down to heirs in the coming 10 years. Yahoo Finance Singapore
• While press freedom faces growing threats worldwide, in Iran, impunity for crimes against journalists has become an entrenched feature of the ruling system and a deliberate instrument of repression. NCRI
• Responding to climate change gives New York an opportunity to work toward a more just and resilient energy system in which all racial, ethnic, Indigenous, and socioeconomic groups have equitable benefits of clean and resilient energy infrastructure, affordable energy, and associated jobs. PubMed Central (PMC)
• Without urgent and systemic action, Greenpeace warns, the climate crisis will exacerbate poverty, hunger, and inequality-top issues for Filipino voters. Greenpeace Philippines
• Moscow's declared intention to reassess the DPA framed as defending Serbian rights in Republika Srpska is anticipated to serve as a geopolitical instrument to derail BiH's Euro-Atlantic trajectory. Truthmeter

Last updated: 16 November 2025