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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 22: Storm clouds gather near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon September 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. Senate Minority Leader McConnell (R-KY) and other Senate Republicans said that they will not vote to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government that would include an increase to the debt ceiling. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

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DAWN Joins 124 Organizations Urging Congress to Restore UNRWA Funding

March 4, 2025

NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 24: Members of the United Nations Security Council attend a United Nations Security Council meeting on maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine at UN Headquarters on February 24, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Liao Pan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)

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UN Security Council: Endorse Arab League Gaza Reconstruction Plan

March 4, 2025

An Israeli soldier stands watch in the Old City of Hebron, West Bank, as two young children look on from the entrance of their home on September 14, 2024. (Photo by Mosab Shawer / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by MOSAB SHAWER/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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DAWN Statement About House Foreign Affairs Committee's Decision to Rename the Occupied West Bank

February 27, 2025

A man walks past shelter tents erected near collapsed buildings in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on October 1, 2024 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)

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16 March 2025, Yemen, Sanaa: Yemenis clean up rubble in front of their shops after US airstrikes in Sanaa. US President Donald Trump ordered massive attacks on Saturday on the Houthis in several Yemeni provinces including Sana'a and the militia's stronghold of Sa'ada in the far north of the war-torn country. Photo: Osamah Yahya/dpa (Photo by Osamah Yahya/picture alliance via Getty Images)

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DAWN Statement on U.S. Airstrikes in Yemen

March 16, 2025

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'My Fellow American': A Poem

March 14, 2025

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How Iran's 'Woman, Life, Freedom' Protests Live On Today

March 13, 2025

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DAWN Joins 124 Organizations Urging Congress to Restore UNRWA Funding

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March 4, 2025

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EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Yemeni Red Crescent workers carry a victim on a stretcher amid the rubble of a destroyed funeral hall building following reported airstrikes by Saudi-led coalition air-planes on the capital Sanaa on October 8, 2016.
Rebels in control of Yemen's capital accused the Saudi-led coalition fighting them of killing or wounding dozens of people in air strikes on Sanaa. The insurgent-controlled news site sabanews.net said that coalition planes hit a building in the capital where people had gathered to mourn the death of an official, resulting in "dozens of dead or wounded". / AFP / MOHAMMED HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)

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DAWN Joins Nationwide Coalition Urging US to End Participation in Yemen War

Together with dozens of partner organizations, DAWN sent an open letter to Congress urging support for the bipartisan Yemen War...

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December 4, 2020

Yemenis search for survivors under the rubble of houses in the UNESCO-listed heritage site in the old city of Yemeni capital Sanaa, on June 12, 2015 following an overnight Saudi-led air strike. Residents said the pre-dawn strike, which killed five people was the first direct hit on old Sanaa since the launch of the bombing campaign against Huthi rebels in late March. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)

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DAWN joins more than 80 organizations in asking Biden to end US participation in Yemen war

Together with 28 civil society partners, DAWN called on the United States Congress to block planned arms sales to the...

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December 1, 2020

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - NOVEMBER 17, 2019: A Lockheed Martin F-35 combat aircraft performs at the 2019 Dubai Airshow. Marina Lystseva/TASS (Photo by Marina LystsevaTASS via Getty Images)

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DAWN joins international coalition opposing US plans to sell weapons to UAE

Together with 28 civil society partners, DAWN called on the United States Congress to block planned arms sales to the...

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November 30, 2020

Tunisian lawyer Radhia Nasraoui (C) Samar Badawi (R) , wife of Saudi-Arabian lawyer and human rights activist Waleed Abu al-Khair, receive the Olof Palme Prize 2013, awarded by Lisbet Palme (L) at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, Sweden on January 25, 2013. The Olof Palme Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding achievement in the spirit of late Olof Palme and consists of a diploma and 75,000 US dollars. AFP PHOTO / ANDERS WIKLUND / SCANPIX/ SWEDEN OUT (Photo credit should read ANDERS WIKLUND/AFP via Getty Images)

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DAWN joins global coalition of rights groups to demand release of Saudi women's rights defenders

Our organisations remain highly concerned about the continued arbitrary detention of women’s rights defenders including Loujain Al-Hathloul, Nassima al-Saddah, Samar...

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November 25, 2020

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DAWN joins hundreds of scholars and rights advocates in solidarity with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

Together with 13 partner organizations, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) today urged former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

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November 24, 2020

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 09: Hillary Clinton speaks at the Jewish Labor Committee's Annual Human Rights Awards Dinner on December 9, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)

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DAWN joins 13 organizations in asking Hillary Clinton to withdraw from UAE government event

Together with 13 partner organizations, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) today urged former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

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November 11, 2020

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