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Add Compensation Provision to Anti-Torture Law

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Security Forces Derail Workshop on Compensation

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State of Emergency Ends in Ethiopia

Government Should Use Reform, Not Force, to Avoid More Protests

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Leaked Transcript Exposes Australia’s Unlawful Refugee Policy

A Study in Hypocrisy and Cruelty

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Administration Moving Fast to Roll Back Police Accountability

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Afghanistan’s Child Sexual Abuse Complicity Problem

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August 2, 2017 Dispatches

‘I Only Wish I Could Exchange My Life for Another’

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Official Foot-Dragging on Urgent Prevention Measures

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