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Human Rights Watch Weekly Quiz

Afghan women hold placards demanding their right to education, in Mazar-i-Sharif xxon June 26, 2023.

How well do you remember this week's human rights news?

Let's find out with this 5-question quiz.

Human Rights Watch Weekly Quiz

How well do you remember this week's human rights news?

Let's find out with this 5-question quiz.

This country’s ruling party recently introduced legislation that would dramatically weaken protections for peaceful assembly:

Georgia

Japan

The state of Georgia, United States

Chile

Armenia’s appeals court significantly weakened protections against disability-based discrimination last month by:

Further restricting access to justice for people undergoing disability assessment

Overturning a progressive ruling by a lower court

Holding that discrimination “on the basis of disability” can only occur under the law if a person has already been formally recognized as having a disability

All of the above

Earlier this month, the military junta in Burkina Faso adopted a bill restoring the death penalty. How long had the death penalty previously been outlawed in the country?

Since the country gained independence in 1960

17 years

10 years

The death penalty had never been explicitly outlawed; the new bill merely formalizes the practice

This week marks one year since the fall of Syria’s Assad government. How have human rights fared under the country’s new transitional government?

Transitional authorities have operated without a functional constitution, restricting the possibility for accountability for human rights abuses

Transitional authorities have adopted a new constitutional declaration, carried out indirect parliamentary elections, and taken initial steps to ensure accountability for the former government’s abuses, but failure to prevent large-scale atrocities, many by transitional government forces, have undermined these positive steps

Human rights abuses have increased drastically in the past year

No human rights abuses have taken place in Syria since the government takeover

Hong Kong held elections for its Legislative Council this week, without a single pro-democracy candidate. How else did the Chinese government suppress democracy ahead of the elections?

Imprisoning dozens of leaders of the city’s pro-democracy movement

Arresting people for “inciting” others not to vote

Allegedly engineering a shake-up to install figures even more loyal to the Chinese Communist Party

All of the above