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September 9, 2016 Commentary

Teaching Child Brides About Condoms in Rural Nepal

A five-year-old girl sits in a nursery school, which she is attending with a scholarship funded by a private sponsor. Quality education provides protection from child marriage—girls who are in school are less likely to marry. April 12, 2016.

September 9, 2016 Commentary

The tragedy of Greece's refugee children

September 8, 2016 Commentary

In Nepal, Young Girls are Being Married Off Simply So They Can Eat

Sharmila G., 14, eloped at age 12 and married an 18-year-old man. At the time this picture was taken she was seven months pregnant. She said that when rumors spread in her village about her relationship with her then-boyfriend, her parents tried to separa

September 8, 2016 Commentary

Duterte and the Ghosts of Plaza Miranda

Candles are lit at a memorial site for the victims of the September 2, 2016 explosion in a market in Davao City, Philippines.

September 6, 2016 Commentary

Obama Needs to Speak Out on Philippine Killings

President Rodrigo Duterte walks between meetings at the ASEAN Summit in Vientiane, Laos on September 6, 2016.

September 2, 2016 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

A paramilitary police officer carries the lifeless body of Alan Kurdi.

September 2, 2016 Commentary

Danish Lawmakers Will Find Nauru No Model for Europe

Held by Australia on Nauru for three years, a refugee girl chooses freedom as what she most needs, August 2016.

September 2, 2016 Commentary

No More Tea Breaks

The Crucial Role of Women in Burma’s Peace Talks

Residents of Ngot Ngar village, Kutkai township, Shan State, in front of their homes, which have come under attack from the Burmese military.

September 2, 2016 Commentary

The Rights Weekender

MENA Palestine Free Speech 4

September 1, 2016 Commentary

How to Deal With China’s Human Rights Abuses

People’s Liberation Army officers stand in front of a window before a welcome ceremony for U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley at the Bayi Building in Beijing, August 16, 2016.

September 1, 2016 Commentary

Somali Refugees Left in Kenya's Dadaab Face Dangerous Choices

Somali refugees look through a barbed wire fence in Dadaab in 2013.

August 30, 2016 Commentary

Human Right to Water at Risk in First Nations Communities

Roxanne Moonias, mother to an infant with a chronic illness, demonstrates one of the steps she takes to ensure her baby is not exposed to contaminants in the water.

August 30, 2016 Commentary

Remembering Victims of a Mass Killing in Japan

August 29, 2016 Commentary

Double Dealing and Carnage in Pakistan

The recent Quetta bombing underscores the failure that is Pakistan’s anti-terror policy

People hold a candlelight vigil for those killed in the August 8, 2016 blast in Quetta, Pakistan.

August 29, 2016 Commentary

Indonesia Religious Discrimination Harms Education Rights

A sign on an Ahmadiyah mosque in South Jakarta, Indonesia reads, "This building is sealed due to inappropriate usage." The mosque was closed by government authorities in July 2015.

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