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June 30, 2017 Letter

Joint Letter to Five Eyes Intelligence Agencies Regarding Encryption

June 29, 2017 Dispatches

Australia’s Abusive Asylum Policy Rebuked Again

UN Expert Body Calls for Regional Processing Centers to Close

A protester from the Refugee Action Coalition holds a placard during a demonstration outside the offices of the Australian Government Department of Immigration and Border Protection in Sydney, Australia, April 29, 2016.

June 29, 2017 News Release

Burma: Drop Charges Against 3 Journalists

Arrests a Major Setback for Media Freedom

A reporter looks at an article about the three detained journalists in the Democratic Voice of Burma newsroom in Rangoon, Burma, June 29, 2017.

June 29, 2017 Commentary

Pentagon Admits Major Investigation Flaw: They Rarely Talk to Air Strike Witnesses or Victims

Smoke rises after a U.S. airstrike during the operation against Islamic State militants near Mosul, Iraq, October 24, 2016.

June 29, 2017 Commentary

US, Gulf Allies, Must Own Up to Their Role in Yemen’s Human Rights Abuses

Hadrami elite forces guard Mukalla from Al-Qaeda by creating check-points.

June 29, 2017 Dispatches

UK’s U-Turn On Abortion for Northern Ireland’s Women

Funding Abortions for Women Who Travel to England is Only an Interim Solution

Women gather in Parliament Square for a protest in support of legal abortion in Northern Ireland, Britain, June 24, 2017.

June 29, 2017 Dispatches

Delayed Justice for Parents of Slain Mexican Teen

Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Killing by US Border Patrol Agent

A US border patrol agent walks along the border fence separating Mexico from the United States near Calexico, California, U.S. February 8, 2017.

June 29, 2017 Statement

Canada: Court Decision a Global Threat to Information Access

June 29, 2017 UPR

Submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Serbia

29th session of the Universal Periodic Review, January 2018

Asylum seekers and migrants living in appalling conditions in abandoned warehouses behind Belgrade train station, Serbia. November 22, 2016.

June 29, 2017 Statement

Submission for the Universal Periodic Review of France

29th session of the Universal Periodic Review, January 2018

French army paratroopers patrol near the Eiffel tower in Paris, France, March 30, 2016.

June 29, 2017 UPR

Submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Israel

29th session of the Universal Periodic Review, January 2018

Israeli flag Guardian

June 29, 2017 UPR

Submission for the Universal Periodic Review of the United Arab Emirates

29th session of the Universal Periodic Review, January 2018

Iranian workers rest on a commercial ship at Dubai Creek, January 17, 2016.

June 29, 2017 UPR

Submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Botswana

29th session of the Universal Periodic Review, January 2018

Delegates arrive for the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, February 27, 2017.

June 29, 2017 Commentary

Another Blow for Justice in the Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions

A detainee paces around a cell block while being held in Joint Task Force Guantanamo's Camp VI at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba March 22, 2016.

June 29, 2017 Statement

Burma: Repeal Section 66(d) of the 2013 Telecommunications Law

Joint Statement by 61 Human Rights Organizations

Reporters shout as they march to demonstrate for press freedom in Rangoon on January 7, 2014, after a journalist working for Eleven Media was sentenced to three months in prison on charges of defamation.

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