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March 23, 2017 Statement

Accountability remains crucial for violations and abuses in Yemen

Item 10 General Debate following High Commissioner’s Oral Update on Yemen

Smoke rises from the community hall in Sanaa where Saudi-led coalition warplanes attacked a funeral on October 8, 2016.
March 23, 2017 News Release

Central African Republic: Armed Groups Using Schools

Preventing Children from Getting an Education

UPC fighters outside a kindergarten in Ngadja, Ouaka province. The fighters have used the building as a base since October 2014.
March 23, 2017 Interview

Central African Republic’s Lost Generation

Fighters Occupying, Looting Schools Keep Children From Their Education

Seleka MPC fighters at a roadblock in Bojomo, Ouham province, with a desk they removed from the local school.
March 22, 2017 Dispatches

YouTube Censors HRW Video on LGBT Censorship

Opaque Standards Limit Access to LGBT Content

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March 22, 2017 Statement

Sri Lanka Should Develop Timetable for Full Implementation of its UN Commitments

Item 2: Interactive Dialogue on High Commissioner’s Report on Sri Lanka

A Tamil woman cries as she holds up an image of her family member who disappeared during the civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at a vigil to commemorate the international day of the disappeared in Colombo August 30, 2013.
March 22, 2017 Commentary

Why March 21 is More Than Just a Public Holiday

South African President Jacob Zuma waves during a Human Rights Day rally in Durban, South Africa on March 21, 2016.
March 22, 2017 Commentary

Marines United Response Must Not Mirror Past Failures in Harassment, Abuse Cases

A US Army specialist and military sexual assault survivor on her bed in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
March 22, 2017 Commentary

How Brazil Facilitates Gang Recruitment

Brazil needs to Explain its Prison Failures Before Inter-American Commission

The inside of the Penitenciária Agrícola de Monte Cristo prison in Roraima state, Brazil, seen through a hole in the wall in 2016.
March 22, 2017 Statement

Human Rights Council: Urge Parties in Eastern Ukraine to Protect Civilians as Fighting Resumes

Item 10 Interactive Dialogue on High Commissioner’s oral update on the Ukraine

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March 22, 2017 Statement

UN Rights Body Should Launch Commission of Inquiry into Kasai Violence

Interactive Dialogue on DR Congo at 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council

Delegates arrive for the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, February 27, 2017.
March 22, 2017 News Release

Libya: War Crimes as Benghazi Residents Flee

Summary Executions, Attacks on Civilians, Desecration of Corpses

A member of the Libyan National Army, the armed forces allied with the Interim Government in al-Bayda, stands next to a hole on a wall during clashes with the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council, an Islamist militia alliance, in Benghazi, Libya.
March 22, 2017 Report

Iraq: ISIS Dumped Hundreds in Mass Grave

Security Forces, Prisoners, Women, Among Those Executed

‘Hammam al-Alil mass grave marked and fenced’ Caption: A marked and fenced ISIS mass grave in Hammam al-Alil, 30 kilometers south of Mosul, discovered in November 2016.
March 21, 2017 News Release

Bangladesh: Immediately Suspend Imminent Executions

Issue Moratoriums on Death Sentences as Inhumane Punishments

March 21, 2017 Commentary

GOP's ObamaCare Replacement Would Make Opioid Crisis Worse

A pharmacist fills a Suboxone prescription at Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program in Boston, Massachusetts on January 14, 2013. Suboxone is an opiate replacement therapy drug used to help treat opiate cravings and withdrawal.
March 21, 2017 Dispatches

Mass Grave Found in Venezuelan Prison

Allegations of Serious Crimes Not Adequately Investigated

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