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March 29, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Nayeli’s Nightmare in Detention

Nayeli Charolet, a Mexican transgender woman currently held in a men’s immigration detention facility in Arizona, United States, pictured with her mother.

March 29, 2016 News Release

Central African Republic: Prioritize Protection, Justice

Investigations and Prosecutions are Key to Ensuring Accountability

Central African Republic's President-elect Faustin-Archange Touadéra attends a demonstration held by traders in Bangui, Central African Republic, during his role as Prime Minister on January 5, 2013.

March 28, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Top Rights Lawyer Freed in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani lawyer, human rights defender Intigam Aliyev giving an interview after he was freed in Baku, Azerbaijan, March 28, 2016.

March 28, 2016 Background Briefing

Colombia: Prosecution of False Positive Cases under the Special Jurisdiction for Peace

Human Rights Watch Analysis

March 28, 2016 News Release

Colombia: FARC Pact Risks Impunity for ‘False-Positives’

Ongoing Prosecutions Could be Closed, Convicted Perpetrators, Released

Colombia's President Santos talks with Colombian armed forces chief General Rodriguez Barragán during a presentation of new military leaders on July 9, 2015.

March 25, 2016 News Release

Israel/Palestine: Summary Execution of Wounded Palestinian

Rights Worker Who Filmed Killing Threatened

March 25, 2016 News Release

Turkey: Journalists’ Trial Closed to Public

Ruling Undermines Defendants’ Rights

March 25, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Hong Kong Booksellers Are Free – Or Are They?

Members of student group Scholarism hold up placards during a protest about the disappearances of booksellers outside China's liaison office in Hong Kong, China January 6, 2016.

March 25, 2016 Commentary

Digital Disruption of Human Rights

Part 2.

Syrian refugees take "selfies" moments after arriving on an overcrowded dinghy at a beach on the Greek island of Kos.

March 25, 2016 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

A wounded Muslim boy lays in the snow next to an overloaded UNHCR truck March 31, 1993 during evacuation from besieged Srebrenica as part of an agreement between Serbs, Muslims and the commander of UN peace keeping forces in Bosnia.

March 25, 2016 Commentary

Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic sits in the court of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, the Netherlands March 24, 2016.

March 25, 2016 News Release

Turkey: Journalism on Trial

End Prosecution of Newspaper Editor and Ankara Bureau Chief

March 24, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Human Rights Council Brings North Korea One Step Closer to Justice

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un salutes as he arrives to inspect a military drill at an unknown location, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 24, 2016.

March 24, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Brazil’s Tuberculosis Breeding Grounds

March 24, 2016 Commentary

In Israel, Atypical Detention and Typical Judicial Review

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