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November 8, 2018 Commentary

When #MeToo Meets the Architecture of Intimidation in India

People hold a candlelight vigil in Bengaluru, India, to protest the rape of an 8-year-old girl in Kathua and a teenager in Unnao, April 13, 2018.

November 6, 2018 Commentary

Fresh Wave of Anti-LGBT+ Moral Panic Hits Indonesia

Muslim protesters hold an anti-LGBT rally outside a mosque in the provincial capital Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia February 2, 2018 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Irwansyah Putra/

November 6, 2018 Commentary

Hungary's hypocritical war on universities

People protest against a bill that would undermine Central European University, a liberal graduate school of social sciences, in Budapest, Hungary, April 9, 2017.

November 6, 2018 Commentary

Human Rights Watch Submits Comments on Proposed Rule Regarding the Detention of Children and Families

A girl stands in the lobby of the Adelanto immigration detention center, in Adelanto, California, U.S., April 13, 2017.

November 6, 2018 Commentary

Catcalling Is Not ‘Normal’ — and We Cannot Allow It To Be

Young women in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Nearly one-third of women in Kyrgyzstan experience abuse by a spouse or partner.

November 2, 2018 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

Boys walk on textbooks scattered on the ground after an air strike hit a school book storage building in the northwestern city of Saada, Yemen January 13, 2018.

October 30, 2018 Commentary

If other countries can balance human rights and border security, so can the United States

A soldier walking in Almoloya de Juarez, on the outskirts of Mexico City, January 10, 2016

October 29, 2018 Commentary

Mexico: Torture and Historical Truth

Attorney's General office's special agents embark into an armoured car some of the 27 municipal policemen involved in an attack against students in Iguala last month and now presented to the press in Mexico City on October 17, 2014.

October 29, 2018 Commentary

Mexico Transgender Ruling a Beacon for Change

International LGBT Pride Day in Historic Center, Mexico City in June 2012.

October 29, 2018 Commentary

As His Troops Killed Civilians, Army Chief Tried to Cover His Trail

October 26, 2018 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

October 26, 2018 Commentary

Myanmar’s ‘Genocidal Acts’ Demand UN Action

Rohingya refugees gather behind a barbed-wire fence in the “no-man’s land” border zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh, April 25, 2018.

October 25, 2018 Commentary

Is Senegal Ready to Listen to Adolescent Girls?

October 25, 2018 Commentary

The Human Cost of Indonesia’s Blasphemy Law

Governor Basuki “Ahok” Purnama after the sentencing in his blasphemy trial in Jakarta on May 9, 2017.

October 22, 2018 Commentary

Immigrant Children Still Being Locked Up in the US

Demonstrators rally in Houston

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