Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

‘Kids want to work’ is a poor justification for laws that legalize work by 10-year-olds

Bolivia’s new law sets a bad example, even though child labor has declined by 30 percent since 2000.

Syria: Free Prominent Rights Defenders

Verdict Scheduled in Charges Before Anti-Terrorism Court

Going to Work in a War Zone

Ukraine: Rebels Subject Civilians to Forced Labor

‘Punishment Brigades’ Put in Danger, Abused

Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 4 September 2014

Ukraine, US, Iraq, UK, Burma, Israel

The Dead and the Living in Luhansk

Amid the shells and explosions, there’s little in the way of normal life left in Ukraine’s besieged eastern cities.

US: Tobacco Growers Act to Protect Child Workers

Burley Council Opposes Tobacco Work by Children Under 16 Worldwide

UK: Protect Migrant Domestic Workers

Don’t Dismiss Reports of Forced Labor, Exploitation

Dispatches: What Burma's Census Missed

Dispatches: Countering Putin With Human Rights

Israel: Reverse Illegal Plans for West Bank

Land Seizure, Settlement Construction, Forcible Displacement of Palestinians

Dispatches: Under Siege in Amerli

Bangladesh: Revoke Draconian Media Policy

Raises Fears of Increased Censorship, Criminal Penalties