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September 10, 2018 News Release

UN Rights Council: Secure Justice for Myanmar Victims

New Q&A on Prosecutions for Atrocities by Myanmar Forces

Rohingya refugees line up at an aid relief distribution center at the Balukhali refugee camp near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, August 12, 2018.
September 9, 2018 News Release

China: Massive Crackdown in Muslim Region

Mass Arbitrary Detention, Religious Repression, Surveillance in Xinjiang

Government social media post in April 2017 shows detainees in a political education camp in Lop County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang.
September 7, 2018 News Release

Thailand: Drop Cases for Online Reporting on Alleged Rape

Computer Crime Charges Threaten Media Coverage of Abuses

September 6, 2018 News Release

India: Supreme Court Strikes Down Sodomy Law

Upholds Rights to Privacy, Non-discrimination for LGBT People

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September 6, 2018 News Release

Tunisia: Ennahda Rejects Inheritance Equality

Parties Should Back Moves to End Gender Discrimination

Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi, Islamist Ennahdha Party leader Rached Ghannouchi, and Ennahdha Party vice-president Abdelfattah Mourou wave to the crowd on May 20, 2016 at the opening of Ennahdha's three-day congress in Tunis. ©2016 Fethi Belaid/AFP
September 6, 2018 News Release

Qatar: End All Migrant Worker Exit Visas

New Law Falls Short of Labor Reform Pledges

Migrant laborers work at a construction site at Aspire Zone in Doha, March 26, 2016.
September 5, 2018 News Release

Prisoners Striking for Fair Wages, Humane Conditions Deserve Support

Women in the David L. Moss Correctional Center attend a parenting class, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2017.
September 5, 2018 News Release

US: Deported Parents’ Agonizing Wait

New Video Shows Impact of Separation From Children

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September 5, 2018 News Release

Mauritania: Rape Survivors at Risk

Inadequate Investigations, Prosecutions, Remedies, Support

The criminalization of sexual relations outside marriage in Mauritania puts rape survivors at risk. The law deters them from filing complaints because they could themselves face prosecution.
September 5, 2018 News Release

Iran: Intensified Crackdown on Rights Defenders

Lawyers, Women’s Rights Activists Arrested

Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and Farhad Meysami, a human rights defender, protest the suspension of  Sotoudeh's law license in front of the Tehran bar association in Tehran, February 2015.
September 3, 2018 News Release

Venezuela: Refugee Crisis Requires Concerted Regional Response

Governments Should Collaborate to Protect Rights of Fleeing Venezuelans

Colombian police officers stand in front of people queueing to try to cross into Colombia from Venezuela through the Simon Bolivar international bridge in Cucuta, Colombia. January 24, 2018.
September 3, 2018 News Release

Myanmar: 7 Years for Reporting the Truth

Conviction of Reuters Journalists a Major Setback for Press Freedom

Detained Reuters journalist Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo sit beside police officers as they leave Insein court in Yangon, Myanmar July 9, 2018.
September 3, 2018 News Release

Cluster Munition Coalition Statement on Stockpile Destruction to the Convention on Cluster Munitions Eighth Meeting of States Parties in Geneva

Delivered by Mary Wareham, Advocacy Director, Arms Division

September 1, 2018 News Release

Libya: Civilians Killed in Tripoli Clashes

Residents Trapped Between Armed Groups

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August 31, 2018 News Release

Guatemala: President Sabotages Fight for Justice

Decision on CICIG Mandate Jeopardizes Anti-Corruption Efforts

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