Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

Too dangerous to stay and too dangerous to leave in the Central African Republic; Indonesia pressures Saudi Arabia on the death penalty while executing drug offenders; and satellite imagery gives a picture of Boko Haram's recent deadly attack in Nigeria - 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: Trapped in Central African Republic's Conflict Zone

Peter Bouckaert
The hands of Mamadou, a 14-year-old polio survivor, are smaller than my 2-year-old daughter’s...when I visited Mamadou this week in the dismal displacement camp in Yaloke, 160 kilometers north of the capital Bangui, it was clear something was wrong...

Dispatches: Indonesia's Death Penalty Double Standard

Phelim Kine
Indonesia’s government is working hard to prevent Saudi Arabia from executing Satinah Binti Jumadi Ahmad, an Indonesian domestic worker on death row since 2010 for murdering and robbing her Saudi employer’s wife...

Dispatches: What Really happened in Baga, Nigeria?

Mausi Segun
Since January 3, Boko Haram militants have attacked –almost on a daily basis –the area surrounding Baga, a fishing settlement on the shores of Lake Chad in Nigeria’s northeast Borno State...

Dispatches: France, a Country of Freedom of Expression - For Some

Izza Leghtas

“The [French] Republic is freedom of expression,” said President Francois Hollande on January 7 in reaction to the horrific attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead. But is it really?...

Dispatches: War Intensifies, So Does Harm to Civilians in Eastern Ukraine

Ole Solvang

After a relatively calm period over the winter holidays, fighting in eastern Ukraine has renewed with a vengeance...