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August 25, 2016 News Release

Turkmenistan: Berlin Should Urge End to 'Disappearances’

Leader’s Rare Visit to Germany

2016-8-eca-turkmenistan-berdymukhamedov
August 25, 2016 News Release

Thailand: Insurgents Target Civilians in South

Systematic Bombings Possible Crimes Against Humanity

Thai security personnel inspect the site of bomb attacks at Southern View Hotel in Pattani Province on August 23, 2016. (C)2016 Khaosod.
August 25, 2016 Commentary

“A Gentleman’s Agreement”

Women’s Participation in Burma’s Peace Negotiations and Political Transition

Members of parliament attend a meeting at Burma’s lower house in the capital, Naypyitaw, March 2016.
August 25, 2016 News Release

Burma: Ensure Women’s Role in Peace Talks

Government, Ethnic Armed Groups Should Promote Women’s Rights in Political Transition

Members of parliament attend a meeting at Burma’s lower house in the capital, Naypyitaw, March 2016.
August 25, 2016 News Release

Iraqi Kurdistan: Kurdish Journalist Abducted, Killed

Threatened by Security Forces Over His Reporting

MENA Kurdistan journalist Wedad Hussein Ali 2016
August 25, 2016 Letter

Letter to H. R. H. Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman

August 24, 2016 Impact

Exposing Burundi’s Human Rights Crisis

Burundi's Human Rights Crisis
August 24, 2016 Commentary

The Dangers of Guantánamo

Keeping it Open Makes Us Less Safe

August 24, 2016 News Release

Mozambique: Opposition Group Raids Hospitals

RENAMO Attacks Deprive Thousands of Health Care

Bullet hole in the window of Morrumbala District Hospital after the raid by RENAMO gunmen on August 12, 2016.
August 23, 2016 Dispatches

Executions in Iraq Not Real Justice for Speicher Massacre

Fair Trials Needed to Restore Faith in Justice System

A member from the Iraqi forensic team writes on the body bag of remains belonging to Shi'ite soldiers from Camp Speicher who have been killed by Islamic State militants at a mass grave in the presidential compound of the former Iraqi president Saddam Huss
August 23, 2016 News Release

Bahrain: Authorities Targeting Shia clerics

Prosecutions Fanning Sectarianism

MENA Bahrain cleric Sheikh Maytham al-Salman
August 23, 2016 Dispatches

Where Is Outrage Over Incendiary Weapons Attacks in Syria?

Three Years After Horrific School Attack, Civilians Still Harmed

At least four incendiary submunitions burn on the ground of a narrow street in the al-Mashhad neighborhood of opposition-held east Aleppo city immediately after an incendiary weapon attack on August 7, 2016.
August 23, 2016 News Release

Indonesia: Court Reviews Anti-LGBT Law

Criminalizing Same-Sex Relations Raises Privacy, Discrimination Concerns

A picture of an anti-LGBT demonstration.
August 22, 2016 News Release

Pakistan: Attacks on Transgender Women Surge

Promptly Investigate, Prosecute Those Responsible

Transgender activists protest against the rape of two transgender women in Faisalabad.
August 22, 2016 Dispatches

Philippine Police Killing Spree Demands Accountability

Hundreds Dead in “Anti-Drug Operations” Since July 1

PNP Director-General Ronald Dela Rosa speaks at a Senate hearing investigating drug-related killings in metro Manila, Philippines on August 22, 2016.

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