THE RAPPORT is the only newsletter devoted to briefing human rights practitioners on the communications of the UN Special Procedures. It is written by our Principal, Kate McInnes, and is published on Sundays on a biweekly basis. To subscribe and read the full newsletter, visit https://therapport.substack.com/ Africa Deaths in custody and detention conditions amounting to torture and ill-treatment in Shala Prison, in El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan, where approximately 9,000 pe

THE RAPPORT is the only newsletter devoted to briefing human rights practitioners on the communications of the UN Special Procedures. It is written by our Principal, Kate McInnes, and is published on Sundays on a biweekly basis. To subscribe and read the full newsletter, visit https://therapport.substack.com/ Africa The escalation of inter-communal violence affecting Fulani communities in Benin, stoked by “inflammatory and stigmatizing rhetoric” associating this group with te

THE RAPPORT is the only newsletter devoted to briefing human rights practitioners on the communications of the UN Special Procedures. It is written by our Principal, Kate McInnes, and is published on Sundays on a biweekly basis. To subscribe and read the full newsletter, visit https://therapport.substack.com/ Africa The conviction of Ms. Saadia Mosbah in Tunisia, following a trial that did not respect fair trial standards, “appear to be directly linked to her fight against ra

THE RAPPORT is the only newsletter devoted to briefing human rights practitioners on the communications of the UN Special Procedures. It is written by our Principal, Kate McInnes, and is published on Sundays on a biweekly basis. To subscribe and read the full newsletter, visit https://therapport.substack.com/ Americas Human rights violations affecting peasant communities in the Ancash region of Peru, committed in the context of copper and zinc mining by the company Antamina —

THE RAPPORT is the only newsletter devoted to briefing human rights practitioners on the communications of the UN Special Procedures. It is written by our Principal, Kate McInnes, and is published on Sundays on a biweekly basis. To subscribe and read the full newsletter, visit https://therapport.substack.com/ Africa The suspension of permits for a number of human rights organisations in the run-up to Uganda’s national elections in January 2026, based on their perceived affili

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THE RAPPORT is the only newsletter devoted to briefing human rights practitioners on the communications of the UN Special Procedures. It is written by our Principal, Kate McInnes, and is published on Sundays on a biweekly basis. To subscribe and read the full newsletter, visit https://therapport.substack.com/ Africa The repeated attacks, arbitrary arrest, and torture of Ms. Alliance Mukunde, an advocate for lesbian women in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, “constitut

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THE RAPPORT is the only newsletter devoted to briefing human rights practitioners on the communications of the UN Special Procedures. It is written by our Principal, Kate McInnes, and is published on Sundays on a biweekly basis. To subscribe and read the full newsletter, visit https://therapport.substack.com/ Americas Disciplinary proceedings initiated against Peruvian Superior Court Judge Oswaldo Ordóñez, purportedly on account of statements he made during a 2024 hearing on

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THE RAPPORT is the only newsletter devoted to briefing human rights practitioners on the communications of the UN Special Procedures. It is written by our Principal, Kate McInnes, and is published on Sundays on a biweekly basis. To subscribe and read the full newsletter, visit https://therapport.substack.com/ Americas The failure to implement a law creating the creating the Minas Gerais Human Rights Memorial, a former torture centre under Brazil ’s former military regime, eng

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THE RAPPORT is the only newsletter devoted to briefing human rights practitioners on the communications of the UN Special Procedures. It is written by our Principal, Kate McInnes, and is published on Sundays on a biweekly basis. To subscribe and read the full newsletter, visit https://therapport.substack.com/ . Americas The government of Colombia's “gravely deficient” compliance with Judgment T-622 of the Constitutional Court — addressing ongoing human rights violations caus