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February 12, 2018 Dispatches

Human Rights Icon Asma Jahangir Passes Away

Her Struggle for a Rights-Respecting, Democratic Pakistan Will Live On

People light candles for the human rights campaigner Asma Jahangir, who died on Sunday in Lahore, during candlelight vigil in Karachi, Pakistan February 12, 2018.
February 12, 2018 Statement

UN Security Council Should Act on Congo

Intervention at UN Security Council Arria Formula Meeting – “The Electoral Process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”

Security forces pursue peaceful protesters in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on December 31, 2017. © 2017 John Bompengo
February 12, 2018 News Release

Mauritania: Human Rights Defenders at Risk

Curbs on Activism Over Discrimination, Other Sensitive Topics

March organized by the Collective of Widows and by the Collective of Civilian and Military Victims, on the Day of Commemoration of the Events of 1989-1990, November 2016, Nouakchott.
February 12, 2018 Interview

Interview: Mauritania’s Taboo Topics

How Discussing Discrimination, Ethnicity, and Slavery Invites Trouble

View of Mauritania's capital city, Nouakchott.
February 12, 2018 News Release

Liberia: Make Justice a Priority

New Government Should Take Concrete Steps on Past Atrocities

A supporter walks by an image of George Weah, President of Liberia, in Monrovia, Liberia, December 27, 2017. © 2017 Reuters
February 12, 2018 Letter

HRW Letter to President of Liberia George Weah

February 12, 2018 News Release

Syria: Landmines Kill, Injure Hundreds in Raqqa

More International Support Needed for Clearance

Warning about mines written on outside wall of building in Raqqa, Syria, January 21, 2018.
February 11, 2018 Letter

Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concerning Niger

63rd plenary session

February 10, 2018 Commentary

Cornered in the Shower and Assaulted: The Torment of a Prisoner With Disabilities

A prisoner lies in his solitary confinement cell in the safety unit at Lotus Glen Correctional Centre, northern Queensland.
February 10, 2018 News Release

Mauritania: Activist Arrested for Social Media Posts

Faces Incitement Charges Under Laws That Muzzle Speech

Abdallahi Salem Ould Yali
February 10, 2018 Dispatches

Poland’s Twisted Holocaust Law

Law Criminalizes Anyone Who Claims Polish State Was Involved in Nazi War Crimes

A sign reading "Stop!" in German and Polish is seen at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, during the ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance
February 9, 2018 News Release

Burma: Ensure Unfettered Aid in Kachin State

Military Obliged to Protect Civilians in Operations

People displaced in the conflict between Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Myanmar military for the control of an amber mine pass their time at a Christian church in Tanai township, Kachin state, Myanmar June 16, 2017.
February 9, 2018 News Release

Cambodia: Free Forcibly Returned Critic of Hun Sen

Thailand Violates International Law by Returning UN-Recognized Refugee

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen arrives to attend the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) congress in Phnom Penh, Cambodia January 19, 2018.
February 9, 2018 Commentary

The Rights Weekender

 Mahboubeh Mofidi’s memorial service, Nowshahr, Iran, 2018. © 2018 Private
February 9, 2018 Letter

Letter to FIFA Regarding Detention, Torture, and Killing of LGBT People in Russia’s Chechen Republic and Threats against Independent Russian Media

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