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April 7, 2016 Commentary

How the White House Went Easy on Drug Crime—But Not for Immigrants

Deportations have gone way up for many legal residents convicted of minor drug possession

April 4, 2016 Commentary

The Other Safe Schools Campaign that Australia is Ignoring

School in Nikishine, eastern Ukraine, damaged during fighting between Ukrainian government and rebel forces from Aug. 2014 to Feb. 2015.

April 2, 2016 Commentary

Rescuing Pakistan

Rescue workers move a body from the site of a blast outside a public park in Lahore, Pakistan on March 27, 2016.

April 1, 2016 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

A woman chained in a room built behind her family home in Ponorogo, East Java. She is forced to eat, sleep, and defecate in this room.

April 1, 2016 Commentary

Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

A group of child brides at Annandale farm, Shamva, Mashonaland Central Province after participating in a community meeting on ending child marriage.

March 31, 2016 Commentary

What’s Really at Stake at the Nuclear Security Summit

March 30, 2016 Commentary

Penned in Gaza and Dreaming of the World Outside

March 30, 2016 Commentary

The US is Quietly Helping Saudi Arabia Wage a Devastating Aerial Campaign in Yemen

A boy stands in a classroom at his school after it was hit by a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen's capital Sanaa July 20, 2015.

March 25, 2016 Commentary

Digital Disruption of Human Rights

Part 2.

Syrian refugees take "selfies" moments after arriving on an overcrowded dinghy at a beach on the Greek island of Kos.

March 25, 2016 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

A wounded Muslim boy lays in the snow next to an overloaded UNHCR truck March 31, 1993 during evacuation from besieged Srebrenica as part of an agreement between Serbs, Muslims and the commander of UN peace keeping forces in Bosnia.

March 25, 2016 Commentary

Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic sits in the court of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, the Netherlands March 24, 2016.

March 24, 2016 Commentary

In Israel, Atypical Detention and Typical Judicial Review

March 24, 2016 Commentary

Anti-Transgender Bathroom Bills: Common Sense and Nonsense

March 23, 2016 Commentary

ICC Judges Confirm Charges Against LRA’s Dominic Ongwen

March 23, 2016 Commentary

Human Rights Watch Testimony before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission

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