Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

Searching for answers in a mass grave in Eastern Ukraine; Gaza schools in the war zone; and Hungary's Prime Minister sees the possibility for an illiberal state in the EU - these were among the most popular posts to Dispatches, our daily forum for breaking human rights news and commentary. You can find all our Dispatches here.

Dispatches: Mass Grave Found in Eastern Ukraine

Yulia Gorbunova
Today, Ukrainian authorities exhumed a mass grave in Sloviansk, in eastern Ukraine. By the time I left the site, they had discovered eight decomposed bodies and they were still searching for more...

Dispatches: Gaza's Schools on the Battlefield

Bede Sheppard
On July 30 a school in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) came under attack...

Dispatches: The End of Liberal Democracy in Hungary?

Lydia Gall
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has now admitted what many have long suspected: he wants to end liberal democracy in Hungary.

Dispatches: Swaziland's Dismal Human Rights Record Just Got Worse

Tiseke Kasambala
Swaziland’s deteriorating human rights record just got worse today, when a court sentenced a human rights lawyer and an editor to two years in prison...

Dispatches: Afghanistan Child Rape Sounds Grim Warning on Rights

Phelim Kine
The alleged rape of a 10-year-old Afghan girl by a mullah in Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, provides grim foreshadowing of the fragility of hard-won rights for women and girls in Afghanistan...