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May 9, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Using Courts to Crush Dissent in Ethiopia

Protesters in Oromia region, Ethiopia.

May 9, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Papua New Guinea’s Family Violence Crisis

May 9, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Punishing a Poet in Burma

Poet Maung Saung Kha served six months in prison for posting a poem online. He was released in May 2016.

May 8, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Why Does Pakistan Fear its Farmers?

A farmer harvests wheat at a field on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, May 6, 2016.

May 6, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Discounting Retaliation Against US Military Rape Victims

The Pentagon, Washington, DC, United States.

May 6, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: A First Step for Patients in Pain in Armenia

Gurgen G., who had a brain tumor, and his mother. Gurgen participated in a palliative care pilot project, which improved the quality of his remaining life. He died in August 2012, free from pain.

May 6, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatch: US Contradictions on Landmines and Cluster Munitions

A sign indicating the presence of landmines hangs from a barbed wire fence inside the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea October 27, 2010.

May 3, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: UN Condemns Attacks on Health Facilities and Medical Workers

MSF Hospital Ruins

May 3, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: The Dark Cloud Over Angola’s Activists and Prisons

Imprisoned activists hold books during a rare visit by of opposition party members to Viana jail, April 2016. © 2016 Private

May 2, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Victim Protection Key to Ending US Military Sexual Assaults

A US Army specialist and military sexual assault survivor on her bed in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

May 1, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: China Stares Down India

April 28, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: A Glimmer of Hope for US Military Rape Victims

April 28, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: How Archaic US Laws Punish Rape Victims

Oklahoma Capitol building.

April 28, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Russia’s Growing Intolerance for Dissent

Two protesters outside the venue of an award ceremony with posters that read “We do not need alternative history” and “Memorial, stop lying”, April 28, 2016, Moscow.

April 28, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Ditching the European Human Rights Convention is a Terrible Idea

Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street in London, Britain April 19, 2016.

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