Catching up with The Rights Weekender: Men in Saudi Arabia dictate the lives of women through a restrictive, and sometimes abusive, guardianship system that won’t even let many women travel or look for work without permission. The aftermath of Turkey’s failed coup is a test for the government’s respect for rights. But the mass arrests and sackings are a worrying sign.
Rwanda is attempting to clean up its streets by locking up poor and vulnerable citizens. Over half of the school-age Syrian refugee children in Lebanon are out of school. And in eastern Ukraine, both sides in the conflict are torturing and disappearing people.
