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Recent Corrections

  • Thailand: Stop Border Pushbacks, Provide Protection

    Clarification: The quote attributed to UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Gillian Triggs in a November 2020 UNHCR news release was an appeal to all states, and should not be construed as an appeal to any particular country.

  • Egypt: Provide Equitable Covid-19 Vaccine Access

    Correction 3/10/2021: This news release was updated to reflect that the online vaccine registration systems can also accept foreign nationals with passport numbers or a refugee document number. The registration website is inaccessible outside Egypt. Human Rights Watch confirmed the information with two Cairo residents.

  • Mexico: Abuses Against Asylum Seekers at US Border

    The report incorrectly stated that the US has expelled "more than 400,000 migrants" since March 2020. It was corrected to clarify that the US has expelled migrants "more than 400,000 times" since March 2020, meaning that the number of individual migrants expelled may be greater than 400,000.

     

     

  • Future Choices

    The following revisions were made to this report: 

    the sentence "Maternal health centers in Venezuela suspended prenatal and postnatal services due to the pandemic and the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimated there is an 80 percent shortage of contraceptive supplies" was removed.

    the sentence ": In Venezuela, where hospitals were already in the grip of a humanitarian crisis, some maternal health centers suspended prenatal and postnatal services in 2020 due to the pandemic, and NGOs reported that pregnant women suspected of having Covid-19 were being denied prompt care" was added. 

  • Myanmar: End Lethal Force Against Protesters

    Correction: This news release has been corrected to remove an erroneous reference to the reported death of one medical worker from Mon Myat Seik Htar Charity group (MMSH). Although the cited organization, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) originally reported that one of the volunteers from MMSH had died of their wounds, all of the detained MMSH volunteers were released on March 24.

  • Myanmar, Sanctions, and Human Rights

    This document has been updated to reflect new sanctions measures taken by the UK government on February 18, 2021.

  • UAE: Detention of UK National Appears Arbitrary

    This news release has been corrected to reflect the correct amount of time Smith spent in UAE detention

  • Myanmar: Lethal Force Used Against Protesters

    Please note this press release has been updated with the following line: ‘In the video, a woman later identified by medical staff as Mya Thwe Thwe Khine

  • UN Finds Torture, Forced Labor Still Rampant in North Korean Prisons

    Clarification: Additional material was added to compare the findings of the new OHCHR report with the 2014 COI report.

  • Russian Court Rules to Jail Navalny

    This dispatch has been corrected to reflect the accurate amount of time Navalny will have to serve.