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June 30, 2016 Witness

Banned from Stadiums for Being a Woman in Iran

Iran women FIVB
June 30, 2016 Commentary

Children on the Front Lines, With U.S. Dollars

June 30, 2016 Commentary

Where Schools Are Already Closed

Children look through a destroyed classroom window at Yerwa Primary School, Maiduguri, Borno state, damaged by Boko Haram during attacks in 2010 and 2013. The school, established in 1915, was the first primary school in northeast Nigeria. © 2015 Bede Shep
June 30, 2016 News Release

US: Don’t Fund Child Soldiers Abroad

State Department List Adds Iraq, Excludes Afghanistan

Child soldiers put down their guns in a disarmament and release ceremony in Jonglei state, South Sudan, February 10, 2015.
June 30, 2016 Commentary

Russian Cluster Munitions Have Literally Made Syria a Minefield

Local Civil Defence Forces extinguishing flames in tent after Syrian government forces shelling hit Khirmash displaced persons camp in Syria on Turkey’s border on April 14, 2016.
June 30, 2016 Statement

UN Human Rights Council: High Commissioner’s reports on human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Burma/Myanmar and on Sri Lanka

Statement delivered under Item 2

Police officers escort humanitarian worker Patrick Khum Jaa Lee during a court hearing in Rangoon on January 22, 2016. He served six months in prison for allegedly posting an image deemed “insulting” to the military.
June 30, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Czech Court Finds Denial of Same Sex Adoption ‘Illogical, Irrational,’ Discriminatory

June 29, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Angolan Activists Conditionally Free

Book Club Members Who Discussed Democracy Await Appeal

Book-club activists walk through the streets of Luanda after their provisional release.
June 29, 2016 Commentary

Redefining Disability

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June 29, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Ethiopia Ascends to UN Security Council Despite Dismal Rights Record

Credible Investigation Needed Into Deaths of Protesters

The UN Security Council votes on a resolution at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on March 2, 2016.
June 29, 2016 Commentary

The Secret to Battling Homophobia in Japan's Schools: Manga

manga drawing by Taiji Utagawa of a transgender man with head down in the dark with three white spots leading into the distance
June 29, 2016 Statement

Turkey: Despicable Airport Attack

Pursue Justice While Fully Respecting Rights

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June 29, 2016 Statement

Suspend Saudi Arabia from the UN Human Rights Council

Saudi Arabian Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman greets UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the UN headquarters in New York on June 22, 2016.
June 29, 2016 News Release

UN: Suspend Saudi Arabia from Human Rights Council

‘Gross and Systematic’ Violations in Yemen Threaten Council’s Credibility

Saudi Arabian Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman greets UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the UN headquarters in New York on June 22, 2016.
June 29, 2016 Statement

Interactive Dialogue on the High Commissioner’s report on Burundi

Statement delivered under Item 10

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