Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

Standing up for the rights of children with disabilities; President Al-Bashir stays in Sudan again; and Israel reinforces a controversial law - 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: "They said I was uneducable. I fought back"

Elin Martinez
I recently met Juan, a young man from Argentina with intellectual disabilities, who was told he was “uneducable” by teachers at the schools attended as a child. Yet here he was, years later, now a university student, sharing a stage with me as part of a panel discussion on the right to education for children with disabilities at the United Nations in Geneva...

Dispatches: Think again, President Al-Bashir

Elise Keppler
So far, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has avoided arrest for alleged international crimes – including genocide – committed in Darfur. But his world has certainly gotten smaller....

Dispatches: Israeli Supreme Court Upholds "Anti-Boycott Law" 

Sarah Saadoun
On Wednesday, Israel’s Supreme Court upheld key provisions of the country’s “anti-boycott law,” which makes it a civil offense for people or groups to advocate boycotting Israeli or settlement products, institutions, or individuals, and the advocacy has a reasonable chance of succeeding...

Dispatches: Military Abuses in southern Philippines

Carlo Conde
Here’s a snapshot of the plight of tens of thousands of internally displaced people in the Philippine province of Maguindanao after an anti-insurgent military operation...

Dispatches: Xenophobic Violence Rages in Durban, South Africa

Dewa Mavhinga
With incidents of xenophobic violence more frequent these days, does South Africa’s ruling party really think refugee camps are the answer?...