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The brutal murder of a woman in Turkey represents a much deeper problem; in Indonesia, 'virginity testing' might now apply to girls graduating from high school; and more hypocrisy in Ukraine's information war - 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: One More Victim of Turkey's Empty Promises to Women

Hillary Margolis
The grim discovery of Özgecan Aslan’s body last Friday in southern Turkey – murdered and burned following her attempted rape – is only the latest episode in an entrenched culture of violence against women in the country...

Dispatches: Indonesia 'Virginity Tests' Run Amok

Phelim Kine
Female high school students in Indonesia’s city of Jember in east Java may have a new hurdle to graduation...

Dispatches: Only 'Savages' Use Cluster Munitions

Ole Solvang
Visiting the site of an attack by pro-Russian rebels in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on February 10, President Petro Poroshenko said: “It is savages who use cluster munitions against civilians.”...

Dispatches: Afghanistan's Afshar Agonies Remembered 

Ahmad Shuja
Twenty-two years ago, residents of Kabul’s Afshar district awoke to the sound of rockets launched at them from a nearby mountainside. February 11, 1993, marked the bloody dawn of the Afshar campaign, one of the worst mass atrocities of Afghanistan’s civil war of the early 1990s....

Dispatches: Paying the Price for Moderation in Iraq

Erin Evers
In Latifiyya, a small town 20 miles south of Baghdad, fighting has been raging since long before the armed conflict that erupted when the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) took over Mosul...

 

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