Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

A hopeful sign, but not enough, in Zimbabwe; justice for Srebrenica genocide, 20 years later; closer to accountability in North Korea - these were among the most popular posts to Dispatches, our daily forum for breaking human rights news and commentary.

Dispatches: Ending Child Marriage in Zimbabwe

Dewa Mavhinga
It was the latest hopeful sign that the country is moving in the right direction on ending child marriage...But for millions of Zimbabwean girls, piecemeal government steps, as welcome as they are, will not be enough...

Dispatches: Justices Catches Karadzic after 21 Years

Emma Daly
It was just a bolt of pink cotton lying on the floor of a school gym but more than 20 years later, it haunts me still...

Dispatches: Human Rights Council Brings North Korea One Step Closer to Justice

John Fisher & Param-Preet Singh
On March 23, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution on North Korea to create a group of experts tasked with finding practical ways to hold rights violators in North Korea to account...

Dispatches: Top Rights Lawyer Freed in Azerbaijan

Giorgi Gogia
The mood this week in Baku was one of elation, as dozens of friends, family, colleagues, and supporters cheered in front of the Supreme Court, welcoming its decision to release Azerbaijan’s leading human rights lawyer...