Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

HRW on The Daily Show; What's in a name? - humanizing the conversation about migrants; and Australia's troubling policy of dealing with Tamil asylum seekers - 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: Daily Show Takes Down Child Labor on Tobacco Farms

Margaret Wurth
When I set out to investigate child labor on United States tobacco farms last summer, I never imagined our research would end up on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart...

Dispatches: Why We Should Outlaw "Illegal"

Bill Frelick
It makes no more sense to call someone an “illegal migrant” than an “illegal person.”...

Dispatches: A Sri Lankan Asylum Seeker's Worst Nightmare on the High Seas

Elaine Pearson
What’s happening to boatloads of Tamil asylum seekers on the Indian Ocean?...

Dispatches: A Treaty to End Corporate Abuses?

Arvind Ganesan
Governments at the UN’s Human Rights Council stunned companies last week when they voted to start negotiations on a treaty to address corporate responsibility for human rights abuses...

Dispatches: President Zuma, Families Come in All Shapes and Sizes, Including Yours

Liesl Gerntholtz
For a country headed by someone part of a polygamous family, we might have expected more from South Africa than endorsing a narrow and potentially harmful reference of what actually constitutes “family.”...