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May 30, 2019 Commentary

A Massacre, Erased

The Researcher

Tiananmen Square, Beijing in June 1989.

May 29, 2019 Commentary

My Father Served Over a Month in Solitary Confinement

New York Should Limit Its Use

solitary prisons

May 28, 2019 Commentary

A Step in the Right Direction

Militaries Changing Policies to Stop Using Schools

United Nations peacekeepers from Pakistan using a school building in Mourouba, Ouaka province, as their base in violation of UN guidelines and regulations. The forces left the school in January 2017 after Human Rights Watch informed UN authorities.

May 28, 2019 Commentary

Anti-Boycott Measure Wrong Way to Combat Anti-Semitism

Outside the office of New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, demonstrators protest against a law that bars the state from investing in companies that support boycotts of Israel, New York City, June 9, 2016.

May 27, 2019 Commentary

Mallorca Sets Stage to Protect Schools in Wartime

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

May 27, 2019 Commentary

Consign Wartime Attacks on Schools to History

2015-11-eca-krasnohorivka

May 24, 2019 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

May 21, 2019 Commentary

Business is Also Ethics

Women Garment Industry

May 21, 2019 Commentary

South Africa Can Stop the Spiral of Abuses in Cameroon

A patrol of Cameroonian gendarmes in the Omar Bongo Square, Buea, capital of the South-West region, on October 3, 2018 on the sidelines of a political rally.

May 20, 2019 Commentary

Green Activists are Fighting the Great Fight—But are Being Dragged Down by Petty Lawsuits

Activists from mining communities protesting at the Pietermaritzburg High Court on August 24, 2018, KwaZulu-Natal © 2018 Rob Symons

May 18, 2019 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

People rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court while the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra case remained pending, in Washington, U.S., June 25, 2018.

May 17, 2019 Commentary

‘Flying Ginsu’ Missile Won’t Resolve US Targeted Killing Controversy

May 17, 2019 Commentary

France Should Stop Fueling Saudi War Crimes in Yemen

Yemen apartment destroyed by airstrike.

May 16, 2019 Commentary

They Tried to Reach Europe and Were Turned Back. Now They're Trapped in Libya's Crossfires

A detainee stands outside a toilet stall in the Ain Zara detention center, Tripoli, July 5, 2018.

May 15, 2019 Commentary

Saudi Arabia’s repression shouldn’t be rewarded with a World Cup

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