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November 11, 2016 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

East German citizens climb the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate after the opening of the border was announced early on November 9, 1989.

November 10, 2016 Commentary

Nepal’s Child ‘Love Marriages’ Need Regulation Too

Lalita B.,17, had an arranged marriage at the age of 12 with a 37-year-old man.

November 10, 2016 Commentary

Abortion should not be a crime

November 8, 2016 Commentary

State's Double Dealing a Threat to Rights in SA

A drag queen participates in Durban Pride in Durban, South Africa, July 30, 2011.

November 8, 2016 Commentary

Freedom of Speech Remains Illusory in the New Burma

Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi attends a meeting event with Myanmar citizens residing in Japan in Tokyo, Japan on November 2, 2016.

November 7, 2016 Commentary

Why Cooperating with Libya On Migration Could Damage the EU’s Standing

Migrants on a boat that they tried to take to Italy, after being detained at a Libyan Navy base in Tripoli on September 20, 2015.

November 6, 2016 Commentary

Chile, the Vatican, and Venezuela

Aerial view of St. Peter's square in the Vatican.

November 6, 2016 Commentary

When Being Counted Can Lead to Being Protected: Pakistan's Transgender and Intersex Activists

Supporters of civil rights group for transgender people, the Gender Interactive Alliance (GIA), dance and chant slogans as they pose with a national flag ahead of the Independence Day in Karachi, Pakistan August 3, 2016

November 5, 2016 Commentary

Anti-LGBT Tilt Taints Singapore Commerce

Participants at the annual Pink Dot Singapore event, in Singapore on June 28 2014.

November 5, 2016 Commentary

Australia Should Go To Papua and See The Human Rights Situation For Itself

Cartoonist's depiction of Indonesian government restrictions on media freedom and rights monitoring in Papua.

November 4, 2016 Commentary

The Rights Weekender

Women and children queue on September 15, 2016 to enter a nutrition clinic at an informal settlement in the outskirts of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, in northeastern Nigeria.

November 4, 2016 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

Children and adults making and stacking bricks on the construction site of the UMH Industrial Park special economic zone, north of the city of Hpa-an. Sand dug from the Salween River is used in the manufacture of the bricks.

November 3, 2016 Commentary

Iraq Blames the Islamic State’s Victims

Civilians are Fleeing the So-called "Caliphate" – Only to be Detained By Iraqi Security Forces

Displaced Iraqi civilians hold white flags as they flee a battle with the Islamic State in Kokjali village near Mosul, November 03, 2016.

November 2, 2016 Commentary

Africans Speak Out Against ICC Withdrawal

Governments Signal Continued Support for Court

Stella Ndirangu of ICJ Kenya

October 31, 2016 Commentary

Stop Abuses against Street Vendors in Rwanda

Street vendors outside Nyabugogo bus station, Kigali, August 2014.

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