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February 5, 2016 Commentary

Ending Business Activity in Settlements Isn't 'Collective Punishment'

Barkan, located in the occupied West Bank, is an Israeli residential settlement and industrial zone that houses around 120 factories that export around 80 percent of their goods abroad. In the background is the Palestinian village of Qarawat Bani Hassan.

February 4, 2016 Commentary

Why Obama should press Colombia on justice

February 3, 2016 Commentary

When Brazilian Judges Defend Injustice

Makeshift “barracos,” or cubicles, inside Pavilion 7 at Presídio Juiz Antônio Luiz L. de Barros (PJALLB), in Recife.

February 3, 2016 Commentary

Turkish Activists look to Germany for Support on Rights Crackdown

Riot police stand guard outside the Kanalturk and Bugun TV building in Istanbul, 28 October 2015

February 1, 2016 Commentary

A way for Europe to remove chaos from the migration crisis

Asylum seekers and migrants descend from a large fishing vessel used to transport them from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos. October 11, 2015.

January 29, 2016 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

January 29, 2016 Commentary

Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

A woman walks away from her apartment as health workers fumigates the Altos del Cerro neighborhood as part of preventive measures against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases in Soyapango, El Salvador January 21, 2016.

January 29, 2016 Commentary

Turkey Alone Can’t Solve Europe’s Refugee Crisis

January 28, 2016 Commentary

Philippines: Illegitimate encounters

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January 27, 2016 Commentary

The Great Civil Society Choke-out

January 27, 2016 Commentary

Ending Child Marriage

Bangladesh: Child Marriage

January 27, 2016 Commentary

Children Behind Bars

The door of a cell at Lusaka Central Prison. Children are routinely incarcerated in Zambia for minor offenses and frequently held together with adults, putting them at increased risk of sexual violence and other abuses. © 2010 João Silva

January 26, 2016 Commentary

Germany’s OSCE Challenge

January 22, 2016 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

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January 22, 2016 Commentary

Indonesia’s Papua Reporting Paranoia

Despite Widodo’s promise of an “opening,” journalists are still being kept out of Papua.

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

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