Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

A hoax video does more harm than good for children in war; Greece shockingly seems to think it's okay to keep disabled children in cages; and the death of a witness highlights a troubling state of impunity in the Philippines - 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: Hoax Harms Children in War

Fred Abrahams
Like many people who watched the “Syrian hero boy” video last week, I was disgusted by the images of a boy getting shot while trying to save a young girl and inspired by the heroism of the act. Now I'm just disgusted...

Dispatches: Greece - No Excuse for Caging Children

Eva Cossé
Is it acceptable for children with disabilities in institutions to be kept in caged beds because of a shortage of staff to supervise them? As shocking as it may sound, for the government of Greece the answer appears to be yes...

Dispatches: Death of a Witness in the Philippines

Phelim Kine
Dennix Sakal will never get his day in court to testify against the alleged perpetrators of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre....

Dispatches: The Good News About Children - and the Bad

Jo Becker
My colleagues and I have interviewed hundreds of children around the world who have been recruited as soldiers, exploited for their labor, locked up in horrific conditions, and been subject to a wide array of other abuses. Sometimes the violations seem overwhelming...

Dispatches: Hungary is Dragging the EU in the Wrong Direction

Lydia Gall & Giorgi Gogia
Hungary has held yet another repressive country up as a model to be emulated, widening the ever-increasing gulf between its values and that of the European Union...