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Finnish researcher loses Fulbright funding over racism study

El Salvador arrests a prominent human rights lawyer on corruption charges

How sign language was once banned in America thanks to Alexander Graham Bell

Anti-Defamation League Pushes Google to Reject Review of Human Rights Abuses

Pope Leo calls for journalists to be released from prison

Medicine Hat same-sex couple's complaint against city officials sent to tribunal

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Wikipedia challenging UK law it says exposes it to ‘manipulation and vandalism’

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UNAIDS to slash workforce by more than half as funding by U.S. and other big donors disappears

Europe’s human rights watchdog urges Greece to end summary deportation of migrants

Dave Portnoy decides punishment for those involved in anti-Semitic ‘f—k the Jews’ sign at Barstool Sports bar

80 years after the liberation from the Nazis, the Dutch commemorate the victims of war

Nicaragua withdraws from UNESCO in protest over press freedom award

UN judge Lydia Mugambe jailed for keeping housekeeper as slave

India children fall ill 'after dead snake found in school meal'

Rights group urges US and other governments to hold Venezuela's Maduro accountable for repression

Pope Francis funeral updates: Services for pontiff set to get underway soon

Polish and Israeli presidents lead March of the Living at Auschwitz

He fought to stop the forest being felled. The price was 30 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit

Watchdog accuses Israel of random attacks on civilians in Lebanon

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