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Celebrity couple George and Amal Clooney said they wanted to use their star power to push for justice globally for women, children, LGBTQ people, religious minorities, and journalists.

The 57-year-old Hollywood actor said some countries were using courts to do "really rotten things" and it was important to "shine a light" on where this was happening.

The couple's Clooney Foundation for Justice, set up in 2016, plans to this year launch TrialWatch, a project to monitor trials and create an index to track which countries are using courtrooms to oppress minorities and government critics.

Amal Clooney, an international human rights lawyer, said it was important to expose injustices and the countries using courts to target vulnerable people, human rights defenders, and press freedom.

Read the full article about TrialWatch by Belinda Goldsmith of the Thomson Reuters Foundation at Global Citizen.