Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

With a nuclear deal all but forged, it's time to address human rights in Iran; Ireland takes a big step with ground-breaking legislation; and the victims of Greece's financial crisis you don't hear about - these were among the most popular posts to Dispatches, our daily forum for breaking human rights news and commentary.

Dispatches: Time to Prioritize Human Rights With Iran

Faraz Sanei
During a speech last year on National Nuclear Technology Day, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accused Iran’s enemies of using the nuclear issue as an excuse to bully Iran by imposing backbreaking sanctions, and predicted that they would turn to “human rights” and other issues once the nuclear issue was resolved...

Dispatches: Ireland Steps Out as Global Transgender Leader 

Kyle Knight
Lydia Foy, a now-retired dentist, witnessed the end of her 22-year struggle this week asIreland’s senate passed the Gender Recognition Bill, ground-breaking legislation that will make Ireland the fifth country in the world to allow identity-based legal gender recognition...

Dispatches: The Hidden Victims of Greece's Crisis

Eva Cossé
Greek citizens aren’t the only victims of the country’s financial crisis – the cost of this debacle includes thousands of migrants and asylum seekers who are streaming into Greece...

Dispatches: A Desperate Plea to Mugabe

Dewa Mavhinga
This week, the 20,000 people who fled their homes because of massive flooding at Zimbabwe’s Tokwe-Mukorsi dam in February 2014 sent a desperate plea to President Robert Mugabe. “Your government has forgotten us..."

Dispatches: Restoring Justice to the US Justice System

Antonio Ginatta 
Yesterday, two days before his visit to the El Reno federal prison in Oklahoma – the first visit to a prison by a sitting United States president – President Barack Obama made a long-overdue and compelling call for the reform of the US criminal justice system...