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March 14, 2018 News Release

Australia: ASEAN Summit Should Promote Rights

Turnbull Needs to Press Leaders to End Abuses

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March 13, 2018 News Release

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March 13, 2018 News Release

UN: Maintain Pressure for Justice on North Korean Abuses

Discussion in Geneva Spotlights Child Labor, Media, Markets, and Accountability

Tomas Ojea Quintana, special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea, attends a news conference after his report to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, March 12, 2018.
March 13, 2018 News Release

Iran: Stop Persecuting Families of People Who Died in Jail

Joint Public Statement

Kavous Seyed-Emami.
March 12, 2018 News Release

Singapore: Reject Sweeping Public Order Bill

Proposed Law Would Excessively Restrict Assembly, Speech Rights

A general view of the Parliament House in Singapore June 2, 2016.
March 8, 2018 News Release

China: Allow UN Rights Experts into Tibet

International Monitors Need to Investigate Abusive Detentions, Harsh Sentences

China’s national flag is raised during a ceremony marking the 96th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party at Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, July 1, 2017.
March 8, 2018 News Release

Lebanon: 5 Steps to Improve Women’s Rights

Parliament Candidates Should Commit to Reforms

Activists hold placards during a protest demanding civil marriage in Lebanon. There is currently no Lebanese civil personal status law.
March 7, 2018 News Release

Equatorial Guinea: Artist Freed from Prison

Officer Admits Superiors Ordered Dubious Charges

Equatorial Guinea frequently harasses government critics. These cartoons are part of a campaign to free Ramón Nsé Esono Ebalé, a cartoonist who has been in prison since September 2017.
March 7, 2018 News Release

Saudi Arabia: Scant Justice for Pakistanis

Brief Unfair Trials, No Legal Representation

Families of detained migrant workers protesting inadequate Pakistani government protection of Pakistani citizens in Saudi Arabia outside the Lahore Press Club in 2016.
March 7, 2018 News Release

Algeria: 6 Face Trial for Peaceful Protest

Stop Judicial Harassment of Activists

The Six activists (Abdelkader Kherba, Hamid Farhi,; Fathi Gheras, Nedhir Dabouz, Gaddour Chouicha, and Ahmed Mansri) after their release from police detention in Ghardaia, July 13, 2016.
March 7, 2018 News Release

Indonesia: Medical Groups Silent on Abusive ‘Virginity Tests’

On International Women’s Day, End Cruel, Unscientific Practice

Members of the Indonesian Air Force march during celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the Air Force in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 9, 2016.
March 6, 2018 News Release

Greece: 13,000 Still Trapped on Islands

As EU-Turkey Anniversary Nears, Move Asylum Seekers to Mainland Safety

Ali, a 22-year-old Afghan asylum seeker with a disability, living in Moria camp, on the beach in Lesbos, Greece. He told Human Rights Watch he can’t access showers in the camp and sometimes tries to wash himself in the sea.
March 1, 2018 News Release

Why Indonesia’s Christian Diaspora Fears Going Home

A police officer stands guard during a protest by supporters of Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, outside Cipinang Prison where he was taken following his conviction of blasphemy in Jakarta, Indonesia, 9 May 2017.
February 28, 2018 News Release

US: Freezing Cells for Detained Migrants

Degrading Treatment by Border Officials

Footage of women and children in immigration holding cells in Douglas, Arizona, September 2015, made public in 2016 after a group of migrants challenged detention conditions in the cells.
February 28, 2018 News Release

Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Protesters, Journalists Detained

Freedom of Assembly Suppressed

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) headquarters in Ranya showing considerable damage following demonstrations from December 19-23, 2017, on the streets of the town. © 2018 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch

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