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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.

Iranian forces appear to have deliberately targeted at least two civilian commercial ships in and around the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month, which would amount to war crimes. How are war crimes defined?

Any criminal actions taken by civilians during times of war

All military actions can be considered war crimes

Serious violations of international humanitarian law committed by individuals deliberately or recklessly

These attacks do not amount to war crimes

Which country recently released new safety guidelines for sports following documentation of abuse against athletes?

Japan

Afghanistan

Russia

Haiti

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reportedly deported over 350 pregnant, postpartum, or nursing women between January 1, 2025, and February 16, 2026. Why do these numbers raise concerns regarding the mounting human toll of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown?

Detaining pregnant or postpartum people means adding significant risk to their health

Separating young children or babies from parents, including breastfeeding ones, is disruptive

DHS’ own policy states that “ICE does not detain, arrest, or take into custody aliens known to be pregnant, postpartum, or nursing for an administrative violation of immigration laws unless release is prohibited by law or for exceptional circumstances”

All of the above

North Korea launched 10 ballistic missiles into the sea earlier this month. How is the country’s nuclear weapons programs interlinked with human rights?

Any investment in nuclear weapons programs represent human rights abuses

The weapons programs have relied on arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearances, forced labor, and severe limits on information and movement

North Korea’s nuclear weapons program has been accused of intellectual property theft

There are no threats to human rights within North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs

Israel’s attacks in Lebanon — and the threat of more to come — have caused more than a million people to flee their homes. This is nearly one-fifth of the entire population of a country that already:

Has mostly been displaced by natural weather events

Hosts the world’s highest number of refugees per capita

Supplies neighboring countries with humanitarian aid daily

Makes up a large portion of the world’s energy producers