Photographs tell the story of a decade of failure by the UN and others to provide adequate housing and medical treatment for the Roma, and the devastating consequences for the health of those in the camps in the Mitrovica region.

The South African government should recognize that political repression and economic deprivation have forced Zimbabweans to flee their country and immediately stop deporting them. Human Rights Watch called on the government to grant Zimbabweans in South Africa temporary status and work rights.

Cyclone Nargis struck Burma on the night of May 2, 2008. An estimated 140,000 people died in the storm. Photographer Christian Holst was in the Irrawaddy Delta in the days and weeks after the cyclone. There, he met and photographed the survivors of the storm. He recently returned to the same three villages to find out how people had faired in the year after the disaster. “It was a great personal privilege being able to meet the same people and hear how the past year has treated them,” Holst says.

Photos and witness accounts of attacks at Luofo and Kasiki villages.

Photographs by Patricia Williams exposing the backlog of untested rape kits and featuring testing labs in Los Angeles County.

Hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees in Kenya face abuse by corrupt and violent police and a rapidly growing humanitarian emergency in the world’s largest refugee settlement. Photographs by Marcus Bleasdale.

Photographs reveal the devastating effects of the use of white phosphorus munitions on civilians and civilian property in Gaza.

Abuses against civilians in the Vanni.