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December 19, 2016 News Release

Lebanon: Reform Rape Laws

Prevent Rapists From Escaping Punishment by Marrying Victims

Demonstration outside Parliament on December 6, 2016, with women in white dresses and wrapped in bandages, calling for the repeal of article 522 of the penal code.
December 19, 2016 News Release

India: Killings in Police Custody Go Unpunished

Enforce Laws to End Torture, Deaths of Detainees

Police officers in New Delhi, India in January 2016. Police in India are often accused of protecting colleagues from accountability for abuses.
December 18, 2016 News Release

Iraq: Executions by Government-Backed Militia

Government Forces Did Not Intervene, Respond

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December 16, 2016 News Release

China: Three Activists Feared ‘Disappeared’

Account for Rights Defenders Missing Since November

Police arrest a man in downtown Shanghai, after calls for a "Jasmine Revolution" protest on February 27, 2011.
December 16, 2016 News Release

North Korea: No Justice Five Years After Kim Jong-Il’s Death

Legacy of Crimes Against Humanity Still Require UN Action

Soldiers walk under pictures of former North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at the capital's main ceremonial square after a mass rally and parade on May 10, 2016.
December 16, 2016 Dispatches

Cracking Down on Sex—and Contraception—in Indonesia

Sex Outside of Marriage Could Get 5 Years in Prison

December 16, 2016 Commentary

Toxic Homophobia Still Festers in America's Schools

It Gets Better, Just Not Here

Josh Greer, a student who has been the target of bullying and discrimination in school, writes in his journal in his bedroom in Cache Country, UT, October 2016.
December 16, 2016 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

A still image from a video of bomb damaged eastern Aleppo, Syria. Video released on December 13, 2016.
December 16, 2016 Dispatches

US Passes Bill to Protect Military Rape Survivors

December 16, 2016 Commentary

The Rights Weekender

A still image from a video of bomb damaged eastern Aleppo, Syria. Video released on December 13, 2016.
December 16, 2016 News Release

Cuba: Free Graffiti Artist

‘El Sexto’ Held Without Charge More Than 2 Weeks

Cuban graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado speaks on his cellphone in his house in Havana on October 20, 2015.
December 16, 2016 Commentary

Lost Years: Secondary Education for Children in Emergencies

Fahd, 15, originally from Syria, is not in school. Instead, he works in construction in the Bekaa Valley.
December 16, 2016 Dispatches

Burma in Denial Over Atrocities Against Rohingya

Government Newspaper, Officials Obfuscate Truth Behind Burning of Villages

Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi attends a meeting event with Myanmar citizens residing in Japan in Tokyo, Japan on November 2, 2016.
December 16, 2016 Background Briefing

DR Congo: Profiles of Individuals Sanctioned by the EU and US

General Ilunga Kampete (right) speaks with General Bahuma Ambamba (center) near Chanzu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on November 5, 2013.
December 16, 2016 Report

DR Congo: Kabila Should Commit to Leave Office

End Government Repression, Rein in Security Forces

Congolese opposition supporters chant slogans during a march to press President Joseph Kabila to step down in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, Kinshasa, September 19, 2016.

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