The Year in Human Rights Videos

Evidence strongly indicate that a member of Egypt’s security forces fatally shot a female protester in a downtown Cairo square on January 24, 2015. "If the Dead Could Speak" reveals some of the human stories behind the more than 28,000 photos of deaths in government custody that were smuggled out of Syria. Among Brazil’s overpacked prisons, those in Pernambuco top the list. Bangladesh has the highest rate of child marriage of girls under the age of 15 in the world, with 29 percent of girls married before age 15, according to a UNICEF study. Jail and prison staff throughout the United States have used unnecessary, excessive, and even malicious force against prisoners with mental disabilities. The Philippine government is failing to protect children who dig and dive for gold in dangerous small-scale mines. Asylum seekers and migrants living in destitution in the port city of Calais experience harassment and abuse at the hands of French police. More than 800,000 asylum seekers and migrants have arrived in Europe by sea by between January and November 2015. Saudi-led coalition airstrikes that killed at least 65 civilians, including 10 children, and wounded dozens in the Yemeni port city of Mokha on July 24, 2015, are an apparent war crime. Garment workers in Bangladesh face poor working conditions and anti-union tactics by employers including assaults on union organizers.