Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

Memorials continue to pour in for an intrepid colleague; a year after ISIS attacked Iraq's Yezidis, the survivors are in need of aid; and acknowledging Indonesia's religious intolerance should only be the first step in curbing it - these were among the most popular posts to Dispatches, our daily forum for breaking human rights news and commentary.

Dispatches: Remembering Jemera Rone

Leslie Lefkow
Every time I travel in South Sudan, I think of my former colleague and friend Jemera Rone, who died in Washington, DC yesterday. Jemera worked for Human Rights Watch for more than 20 years and was a true human rights pioneer, as well as a generous mentor and colleague...

Dispatches: Help Yezidi Survivors

Christophe Wilcke
In Dohuk, posters remind passing drivers that on August 3 last year, the extremist group Islamic State (also known as ISIS) launched its large-scale attack on Yezidi communities around Sinjar mountain. The group killed thousands of Yezidi civilians, and seized and sold off Yezidi women for their fighters’ sexual gratification...

Dispatches: Tackling Indonesia's Religious Intolerance

Phelim Kine
Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo did something remarkable last Sunday...

Dispatches: Amid Rising Tensions, A Dangerous Moment for Turkey

Benjamin Ward

Tensions between the Turkish government and the country’s Kurds have risen to dangerous levels in the wake of last week’s suicide bomb attack, blamed on the extremist group Islamic State (also known as ISIS). But the response of Turkey’s authorities carries serious risks for human rights...

Dispatches: France - Enough Tragic Deaths in Calais

Izza Leghtas

Ganet, Moussa, Mohammad.

Not all the people who have died trying to get to the UK from Calais have been named yet, but on Tuesday night, a young Sudanese man joined that tragic list. The man became the 9thperson to die since June fleeing the squalor of Calais camps for the UK...