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July 12, 2016 News Release

India: Investigate Use of Lethal Force in Kashmir

Response to Violent Protests Leaves More Than 30 Dead, Hundreds Injured

An Indian policeman pulls concertina wire to lay a barricade on a road during a curfew in Srinagar on July 12, 2016.
July 12, 2016 News Release

Thailand: Activists, Journalist Arrested for Vote-No Campaign

Junta Further Restricts Criticism of Draft Constitution

Pakorn Areekul was arrested in Thailand’s Ratchaburi province on July 10, 2016, along with four pro-democracy activists and a journalist, for possessing booklets criticizing the junta’s draft constitution.
July 12, 2016 News Release

China: EU Should Press for Action to End Crackdown

Summit Needs to Prompt Tangible Improvements

(From L to R) Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng, European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, European Council President Donald Tusk, and European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstrom attend a signing ceremony.
July 12, 2016 Letter

Letter from HRW re: EU-China Summit

July 12, 2016 Statement

Video testimony at European Parliament hearing on sports and human rights

Video testimony for EP Subcommittee on Human Rights hearing

July 12, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Merkel Should Make First-Ever Chancellor Visit to Kyrgyzstan Count

German Leader Should Call for Release of Activist Askarov

Kyrgyzstan's President Almazbek Atambayev (L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel address a news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, April 1, 2015.
July 12, 2016 Letter

Human Rights Watch Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

July 12, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Philippine Officials Shrug at Surge in Drug Killings

Police Admit Dozens Killed Since New President Took Office

Members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) investigation unit check the body of one of the five suspected drug pushers killed in a police operation in Quiapo city, metro Manila, Philippines July 3, 2016.
July 12, 2016 News Release

Russia: ‘Big Brother’ Law Harms Security, Rights

Repeal Rushed Counterterrorism Legislation

State Duma, the lower house of parliament, in session in Moscow, Russia on April 19, 2016.
July 12, 2016 News Release

Ban Forced Anal Exams Around World

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July 11, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Celebrating Malaysia’s Champions of Worker Rights

Tenaganita Still Fighting for Women Workers’ Rights, 25 Years On

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July 11, 2016 Commentary

The Dhaka Attacks Were A Product Of Bangladesh's Fractious Politics

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July 11, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Dozens of Cubans Expelled from Ecuador

Asylum seekers were among those judges ruled to have deported

Cubanos detenidos en el calabozo de la unidad judicial de delitos flagrantes de Quito, esperando a ser deportados o liberados luego de audiencias de deportación, 9 de julio de 2016.
July 11, 2016 Commentary

Aung San Suu Kyi Must Focus on Ending Burma’s Civil War

The country’s democratic transformation will mean little unless it can bring peace to long-suffering ethnic minorities.

July 11, 2016 Commentary

Correa’s Clamp on the Media

El presidente de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, durante una rueda de prensa en Quito, Ecuador, el miércoles 8 de junio de 2016. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

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