Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

China ends a decades-old repressive policy; Canada's new feminist Prime Minister; and the cruelty of Hungary's new border regime - these were among the most popular posts to Dispatches, our daily forum for breaking human rights news and commentary.

Dispatches: Ending the One-Child Policy Does Not Equal Reproductive Freedom in China

Maya Wang 
The Chinese government’s announcement today that it will allow all couples to have two children finally puts an end to its decades-long “one-child” policy. It’s a positive step, and one likely to be greeted with joy by millions of couples, but it doesn’t change the fact that China’s family-planning policies remain coercive and abusive...

Dispatches: What a Feminist Prime Minister Means for Canada

Alexandra Kotowski
Unlike most world leaders, newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn’t afraid to identify himself as a feminist...After Trudeau and the Liberal Party’s decisive victory in last month’s election, Canadian women have many reasons to be hopeful about their new government...

Dispatches: Seeking Protection, Behind Bars in Hungary

Lydia Gall & Izza Leghtas
Walking into an immigration detention center, the cruelty of Hungary’s new border regime hit us...

Dispatches: How Can Turkey's New Government Bring Stability?

Emma Sinclair-Webb
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) has won a fourth term in office in Turkey’s November 1 general election and has put behind it the losses suffered in the inconclusive June 7 poll. It is an astonishing turn around...

Dispatches: Dutch Arrest Hold Hope for Justice in Afghanistan's Dark Past

Patti Gossman
It’s the time of year when ghosts come calling. At least that’s how it must have seemed to Sadeq Alamyar when he was arrested  on October 27, 2015, in Rotterdam, on charges of ordering one of the most horrific crimes of the early years of Afghanistan’s long wars...