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Gulf Crisis Shows How Discrimination in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar Tears Families Apart
The Gulf is one country. My aunt is in Riyadh, my uncle is in the UAE, my children are from Bahrain.—Dr. Wafa al-Yazeedi, Doha, June 19.
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Syria: Airstrike on School Kills Civilians
10 Dead, Including Displaced Family
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Yemen: UAE Backs Abusive Local Forces
Resolve ‘Disappearances’, Grant Access to Detention Sites
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“It’s a Men’s Club”
Discrimination Against Women in Iran’s Job Market
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News ReleaseLibya: Incitement Against Religious Minority
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News ReleaseIran: Halt Drug-Related Executions
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DispatchesThe Saudi Dress Code Debacle
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News ReleaseIraq: Execution Site Near Mosul’s Old City
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News ReleaseMorocco: Police Use Force at Rabat Sit-In
World Report 2017: Yemen
In Yemen, dozens of coalition airstrikes indiscriminately or disproportionately killed and wounded thousands of civilians in violation of the laws of war.
World Report 2017: Syria
Greater United States and Russian engagement on Syria and efforts to reach a political settlement in 2016 failed to significantly reduce egregious violations of human rights and humanitarian law.
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Sarah Leah Whitson
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Eric Goldstein
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Director, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program nadimhoury
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Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa Division
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Advocacy and Communications Director @AhmedBenchemsi
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Hanan Salah
Senior Libya Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division HananMSalah
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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.
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Rabaa Mapping a Massacre
The systematic and widespread killing of at least 1,150 demonstrators by Egyptian security forces in July and August 2013 probably amounts to crimes against humanity.