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April 3, 2017 Commentary

Doing What's Right on Egypt is also Smart Strategy

U.S. President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi walk the colonnade at the White House in Washington, D.C., April 3, 2017. © 2017 Reuters

March 31, 2017 Commentary

The Rights Weekender

The settlements of Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in Serta county, Sichuan province, China on July 23, 2015.

March 31, 2017 Commentary

Venezuela’s crumbling façade of democracy

Venezuela's Supreme Court President Maikel Moreno talks to the media during a news conference in Caracas on March 27, 2017.

March 31, 2017 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

Law enforcement officers detains an opposition supporter during a rally in Moscow, Russia.

March 30, 2017 Commentary

Touadéra One Year On: Justice Needs Urgent Kick Start

President Faustin Archange Touadera of the Central African Republic addresses the 71st United Nations General Assembly in New York, U.S., September 23, 2016.

March 29, 2017 Commentary

Venezuela Meets Regional Concern With Threats

Mounting Regional Pressure in Face of Abuse

Venezuela's then Ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, addresses the Security Council at United Nations headquarters in New York, July 22, 2014.

March 29, 2017 Commentary

What the Trump Administration Needs to Tell the Kremlin

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks by phone with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington D.C., January 28, 2017. © 2017 Reuters

March 28, 2017 Commentary

Iraq's New Marginalized Population

Residents of Shahama camp speak with relatives through the camp fence.

March 27, 2017 Commentary

Why Children Are Stuck in Prison in Erbil Without Trial

Boy prisoners in the yard of the Women and Children's Reformatory in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Many boys were detained on suspicion of links to the Islamic State

March 24, 2017 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

U.S. President Donald Trump holds his earpiece as he holds a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (not pictured) at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 10, 2017.

March 24, 2017 Commentary

UK must keep up pressure on Burma over rapes of women and girls

A Rohingya Muslim woman walks at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on February 4, 2017.

March 23, 2017 Commentary

Wipe Anti-Gay Law off Alabama's Books

LGBT Rainbow Flag

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.

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