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In Indonesia people with mental health conditions often end up chained or locked up in overcrowded and unsanitary institutions, without their consent, due to stigma and the absence of adequate community-based support services or mental health care. In 2016, Human Rights Watch exposed the shackling of 18,000 people with psychosocial disabilities in Indonesia. Since then the government took promising steps to rescue people from the chains. But today, more than 12,800 people are still shackled—to beds, cement blocks, or in animal pens. Join our campaign! It's time to end shackling once and for all by calling on the Indonesian government to #BreakTheChains.
On October 3, 2016, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Poland in defiance of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party’s attempt to enact a complete abortion ban. Two years later, “triumphant” hardly describes the reality for women’s rights activists in Poland.
Last month, fighters killed 17 people in Beni town, bringing the number of civilians killed this year to at least 235. The attacks complicate efforts to stem an Ebola virus outbreak that has left at least 70 people dead since August.
Mamadou Bah’s ancestral village is now almost entirely surrounded by bauxite mines and roads. “It hurts me to look at this,” says the farmer and community leader. Next year his village will be forced to relocate. “We’re worried for our survival.” A new interactive feature explores what is happening to him and many others.
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