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Last weekend, two-thirds of Irish people voted to repeal a 35-year-old constitutional ban on abortion. Voters turned out in historic numbers. Their ‘Yes’ vote ends 35 years of shame and secrecy for Irish women and girls. Human Rights Watch's Aisling Reidy discusses what it was like watching her home country take this historic step, and the long, sometimes hazardous road Irish women have endured to get here. Activists elsewhere, in other regions such as Latin America – where women and girls continue to fight for access to abortion – watched as Ireland voted. Will their efforts be bolstered by Ireland's victory for women's rights?
The Saudi government seems so consumed with silencing dissent that even activists who have gone quiet for fear of retribution are being targeted again.
The first test of FIFA's new human rights policies will come on June 14 as the 2018 World Cup opens in Russia, a country openly hostile to LGBT people.
Last month, we asked for your help in showing support for the Venezuelan people. We pressed Latin American leaders to speak up against the humanitarian crisis the people of venezuela are facing. Now the president of Ecuador has committed his support!
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