Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

Indian PM Modi visits Britain; Russia clamps down harder; and women in Ireland are tweeting for reproductive rights - these were among the most popular posts to Dispatches, our daily forum for breaking human rights news and commentary.

Dispatches: India Tarnished by Recent Intolerance 

Meenakshi Ganguly
It has not been the most glorious of times for human rights in British diplomacy. ...Some human rights groups are protesting the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi: a huge “MODI NOT WELCOME” image was projected upon the Palace of Westminster...

Dispatches: Russian Government Targets Human Rights Giants

Tanya Lokshina
Russia’s Ministry of Justice has accused a leading rights group of undermining the country’s “constitutional rule” and using foreign funding to harm Russia...

Dispatches: Why Irish Women are Live-Tweeting Periods

Amanda Klasing
Women in Ireland are live tweeting their periods to Prime Minister Enda Kenny, in protest of the state’s long-held legislative control over their bodies...

Dispatches: Sri Lanka Homecoming

James Ross
“More than others, the Tamils know the trauma of war,” Sri Lanka’s new president, Maithripala Sirisena, told those gathered at a resettlement ceremony in August in Sampur, in the country’s northeast...

Dispatches: Burundi's Descent Into Lawlessness

Carina Tertsakian
Ask anyone in Bujumbura and they will tell you the same thing: dark days lie ahead...