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March 21, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: High-Profile ICC Warning to Commanders on Rape

Former Congo vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba looks up when sitting in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court to stand trial in The Hague, Netherlands, September 29, 2015.

March 21, 2016 Commentary

Time for Change at the World’s Largest Watch Fair

March 21, 2016 Statement

Human Rights Watch comments to the US Sentencing Commission

March 21, 2016 News Release

Yemen: Embargo Arms to Saudi Arabia

US, UK, France Risk Complicity in Unlawful Airstrikes

A Saudi artillery unit fires shells towards Houthi positions from the Saudi border with Yemen April 13, 2015.

March 20, 2016 Interview

The Living Hell of People with Mental Health Conditions in Indonesia

A man with a psychosocial disability lies chained at the wrist on a platform bed at the Bina Lestari healing center in Brebes, Central Java. All residents of the healing center are chained. © 2015 Andrea Star Reese for Human Rights Watch

March 20, 2016 News Release

Indonesia: Treating Mental Health With Shackles

People With Psychosocial Disabilities Face Restraints, Abuse

March 20, 2016 Commentary

For Cuba to change requires multilateral effort

March 20, 2016 News Release

Bahrain: Stop Deportations of Nationals

Unlawful Interference With Family Life

Taimoor Karimi was stripped from his Bahraini citizenship on August 10, 2014. © Private

March 18, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Chile’s Welcome Move on Abortion

Demonstrators raie their thumbs in approval during a rally inside congress in favor of a draft law by the government, which seeks to ease the country's strict abortion ban, in Valparaiso, Chile March 17, 2016. The banner reads: "Chile makes history today,

March 18, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Afghanistan Journalists’ Worsening Reporting Perils

A cameraman films a news anchor at Tolo TV studio in Kabul, Afghanistan on October 18, 2015.

March 18, 2016 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

Children washing outside a makeshift camp for asylum seekers and migrants at the port of Piraeus, in Athens. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, estimates that women and children now make up nearly 60 per cent of those seeking refuge in Europe.

March 18, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: German Judge Warns Racist Attackers

Migrants and asylum seekers wait to be registered outside the Berlin Office of Health and Social Affairs (LAGESO) in Germany, December 9, 2015.

March 18, 2016 Commentary

Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

A boy stands in a classroom at his school after it was hit by a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen's capital Sanaa July 20, 2015.

March 18, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Teacher Ignorance Lets LGBT Bullying Flourish

A 20 year old Japanese woman who was bullied by her classmates in junior high school holds a notebook displaying the message...

March 18, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Still No Clarity on DR Congo Mass Grave

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