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April 19, 2016 Commentary

Brazil’s Senseless ‘War’

A 17-year-old Brazilian drug gang member poses with a gun atop a hill overlooking a slum in Salvador, Bahia State on April 11, 2013.

April 19, 2016 Commentary

Signing the Climate Change Deal Is Just the Beginning

Human rights is an essential part of implementing the new climate accord

COP21 Participants Paris_PHOTO

April 19, 2016 Commentary

Obama’s Gulf Abandonment Issues

April 18, 2016 Commentary

Indonesia’s Drug Trafficker Executions Aren’t Over Yet

Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi gestures during an interview at the foreign ministry office in Jakarta, Indonesia on March 1, 2016.

April 18, 2016 Commentary

Yezidi Women After Slavery: Trauma

April 15, 2016 Commentary

Top Human Rights Dispatches This Week

Dmitry Tsilikin

April 15, 2016 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

An eager student leads her class in learning the alphabet in September 2015 at a displacement camp housed at a school in Maiduguri, Borno state. © 2015 Bede Sheppard, Human Rights Watch

April 15, 2016 Commentary

Why We Need to Ban Killer Robots

April 14, 2016 Commentary

Why has the World Forgotten Islamic State's Female Sex Slaves?

A Sunni Muslim woman who fled the Islamic State's strongholds.

April 14, 2016 Commentary

Upholding Abuse in Venezuela

Venezuela's Supreme Court building in the capital Caracas on December 23, 2015.

April 12, 2016 Commentary

Turnbull’s Visit Presents an Important Opportunity to Press China on Human Rights

April 12, 2016 Commentary

Deafening Silence from Ethiopia

Security forces harassing students in Oromia, January 2016.

April 11, 2016 Commentary

Inclusive Classrooms Benefit All Children

Enelani

April 8, 2016 Commentary

Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

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April 8, 2016 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

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