Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

The decision in the Eric Garner case raises serious questions on handling police brutality in the US; police in Hungary have found a new way to combat rape: victim-blaming; and HIV in the southern US remains a serious problem on World AIDS Day - 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: Beyond Bodycams - What to Do After Garner and Brown

Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno
Yesterday’s grand jury decision in the Eric Garner case in New York City – the second in just over two weeks in which a grand jury in the United States failed to indict a white police officer in the killing of an unarmed African American – has raised important questions about one of the few concrete solutions that US officials (President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, among them) have proposed for dealing with police brutality...

Dispatches: Hungarian Police Blame Victims in Anti-Rape Campaign

Lydia Gall
“You are responsible. You can do something about it.” This is the message of a Hungarian police anti-rape crime prevention campaign aimed at students...

Dispatches: Harmful Laws and Poverty Fuel HIV Epidemic in US South

Rashmi Chopra
The first cases of HIV in the United States were seen more than 30 years ago, largely in West and East Coast cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. Today the epidemic’s profile looks very different...

Dispatches: Wake up US, Ferguson Calling

Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno
Many questions are already being raised about the grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri in August...