UNITED NATIONS — People's rights are being suppressed and threatened everywhere in the world, from wars to selective government outrage about some abuses and silence about others because of "political expediency," a leading human rights group said this week.
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Maya Palty, left, comforts Efrat Machikawa on Thursday at the Gaza border in Kibbutz Nirim, southern Israel, as families of hostages call out to their loved ones on loudspeakers in hopes that the hostages will hear. Palty and Machikawa have relatives kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7.
People kneel Thursday as soldiers carry the coffin of Ukrainian service member and famous Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov, who was killed in a battle with Russian troops, during a funeral ceremony at St. Michael Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine.
2023 in photos: Unforgettable images capture Middle East in turmoil
Antonio Macías' mother cries over her son's body covered with the Israeli flag at Pardes Haim cemetery in Kfar Saba, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. Macias was killed by Hamas militants while attending a music festival in southern Israel earlier this month. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system fires interceptors at rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel. Thursday, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Israelis evacuate a site struck by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A Palestinian wounded in Israeli bombardment waits for treatment in a hospital in Deir al-Balah, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Mourners gather around the graves of British-Israelis Lianne Sharabi and her two daughters, Noiya,16, and Yahel,13, during their funeral in Kfar Harif, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Lianne Sharabi and her two daughters were killed by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 in Kibbutz Be'eri near the border with the Gaza Strip. More than 1,400 people were killed and some 200 captured in an unprecedented, multi-front attack by the militant group that rules Gaza. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israeli security forces inspect charred vehicles burned in the bloody Oct. 7 cross-border attack by Hamas militants, outside the town of Netivot, southern Israel. The vehicles were collected and placed in an area near the Gaza border after the attack, in which 1,400 people were killed and some 240 people were taken hostage. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A firefighter and a paramedic deliver oxygen to an injured cat rescued from a building struck by a rocket fired from Gaza, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Palestinians inspect the rubble of the Yassin Mosque destroyed after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, early Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. Israel's military battled to drive Hamas fighters out of southern towns and seal its borders Monday as it pounded the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
Kenzi al Madhoun, a four-year-old who was wounded in Israeli bombardment lies at Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah City, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
An Israeli soldier hugs his partner near the border with the Gaza Strip, southern Israel, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Palestinians flee to northern Gaza as Israeli tanks block the Salah al-Din road in the central Gaza Strip on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023, as the four-day cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war begins as part of an agreement that Qatar helped broker. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)
A general view of the city of Derna is seen on Tuesday, Sept. 12., 2023. Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods in multiple coastal towns, the destruction appeared greatest in Derna city. (AP Photo/Jamal Alkomaty)
Lebanese army soldiers scuffle with protesters during a demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza, near the U.S. embassy in Aukar, a northern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Palestinians pray over bodies of people killed in the Israeli bombardment who were brought from the Shifa hospital before burying them in a mass grave in the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)
Palestinian woman collects seawater to wash clothes at the beach in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on Thursday, November 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
An off-duty member of Israel's security forces joins worshippers at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023. Tens of thousands of Israeli reservists have been called up for action for the war against Hamas, while other security personnel have begun to carry weapons in public, following the Islamic militant group's deadly cross-border attack on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Retired members of the Lebanese security forces and other protesters scuffle with Lebanese army after they removed a barbed-wire barrier in order to advance towards government buildings during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Police detain a supporter of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Lebanese special forces soldiers, right, remove their comrade who fainted from tear gas during a protest for retired army soldiers and other protesters who are demanding better pay, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Lebanese security forces are firing tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who tried to break through a fence leading to the government headquarters in downtown Beirut. The protest comes amid widespread anger over the harsh economic conditions in the country. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Israeli women's rights activists dressed as characters in the popular television series, "The Handmaid's Tale," protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, March 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Afghan volunteers clean up rubble after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Afghan girls and women carry donated aid to their tents, while they are scared and crying from the fierce sandstorm, after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western of Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Ultra-Orthodox Jews mourn over the body of Rabbi Shimon Baadani during his funeral, in Bnei Brak, Israel, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
A demonstrator sits next to a bonfire as others occupy the Ayalon Highway to protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Thursday, July 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
An Israeli activist dressed as a clown runs with border police as Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system block a free way in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
An Afghan refugee rests in the desert next to a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border, in Torkham, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
