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January 20, 2020

Nepal Falters on Justice Pledge for Conflict Abuses

The horrors of Nepal’s ten-year insurgency weigh greatly on the country, with a heavy toll of killings, rapes, disappearances, and torture.

Asia

January 20, 2020 Dispatches

Nepal Falters on Justice Pledge for Conflict Abuses

Meenakshi Ganguly
South Asia Director
Free Speech

January 19, 2020 News Release

Cambodia: Drop Charges Against 2 Journalists
Asia

January 19, 2020 News Release

Hong Kong: Improve Privacy Ordinance Rights Protections

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December 2, 2019 Video

Rohingya Children in Bangladesh Deprived of Education
October 7, 2019 Video

Afghanistan: Little Help for Conflict-Linked Trauma
August 26, 2019 Video

India: Ensure Rights Protections in Kashmir

Reports More Reports

December 3, 2019

“Are We Not Human?”

Denial of Education for Rohingya Refugee Children in Bangladesh
October 31, 2019

“They’ve Shot Many Like This”

Abusive Night Raids by CIA-Backed Afghan Strike Forces
October 24, 2019

To Speak Out is Dangerous

Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in Thailand

News

January 17, 2020 Dispatches

India Failing on Kashmiri Human Rights

Meenakshi Ganguly
South Asia Director
January 17, 2020 Dispatches

Bhutan on Brink of Overturning Same-Sex Conduct Ban

Kyle Knight
Senior Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program
January 15, 2020 Commentary

MEPs: Don't waste your chance to change Vietnam

Claudio Francavilla
EU Advocacy Officer

Published In: EU Observer
January 14, 2020 News Release

Afghanistan: Civilian Toll Devastating
January 14, 2020 News Release

Pakistan: Crackdown on Expression Grows
January 14, 2020 News Release

Sri Lanka: Human Rights Gains in Grave Peril
January 14, 2020 News Release

Bangladesh: Crackdown on Critics, Activists
January 14, 2020 News Release

North Korea: Systematic Repression
January 14, 2020 News Release

South Korea: Reprioritize Human Rights
January 14, 2020 News Release

Malaysia: Human Rights Reforms Stall
January 14, 2020 News Release

India: Mounting Human Rights Abuses
January 14, 2020 News Release

Nepal: No Justice for Conflict-Era Abuses

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Daily Brief

January 20, 2020

Peruvians with disabilities left off voting lists; UK should guarantee unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are reunited with their families; authors of CIA torture program to testify at Guantanamo; end abusive exit permits for migrant workers in Qatar; Hong Kong legislators should improve Privacy Ordinance rights protections; Cambodia pressed to drop charges against two journalists; step forward to end period poverty in England; and planning to commemorate 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.

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October 17, 2017

The War for Girls' Education

The war for girls' education in Afghanistan - 16 years after the US & allies toppled the Taliban and promised to get Afghan girls back into school, why are more than half of them still out of school?
October 8, 2015

Exodus: Asylum Seekers Flee Into Europe

“What will happen to us?” “Will they fingerprint us?” was the constant refrain as we watched a human wave of asylum seekers and migrants from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan crossing the Serbia-Hungary border.
May 26, 2010

Global Justice: The Expanding Reach of Accountability