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June 7, 2016 News Release

Canada: Water Crisis Puts First Nations Families at Risk

Regulation, Investment, and Oversight Needed to Fix Broken System

Roxanne Moonias, mother to an infant with a chronic illness, demonstrates one of the steps she takes to ensure her baby is not exposed to contaminants in the water.

June 7, 2016 News Release

Tajikistan: Verdicts of Opposition Activists Travesty of Justice

US, EU Should Protest Deepening Crackdown

June 7, 2016 News Release

Algeria: Prison for Criticizing Judiciary

Labor Rights Defender Convicted for Facebook Video

June 6, 2016 News Release

Azerbaijan: Berlin Should Urge More Prisoner Releases

Sustained Pressure Needed on Rights

June 6, 2016 News Release

Global Profits, and Peril, from Child Labor

Governments Should Impose Mandatory Restrictions

A 12-year-old boy crushes stones at Homase processing site, Amansie Central district, Ashanti Region, Ghana.

June 5, 2016 News Release

US: Show Breadth of Rights Commitment at China Dialogue

Cite Abusive Laws; Call for Lawyers’ Release

June 5, 2016 News Release

18 Powerful Films Bring Human Rights Struggles to Life

2016 Human Rights Watch Film Festival

June 5, 2016 News Release

Palestine: ICC Should Open Formal Probe

Impartial Justice Needed as Occupation Enters 50th Year

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki waves as he arrives holding documents he will submit to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, June 25, 2015.

June 2, 2016 News Release

OAS: Save Human Rights Body

Financial Crisis Threatens Basic Protections

A protester holds up a sign next to relatives of some of the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa College Raul Isidro Burgos during a march in Mexico City

June 2, 2016 News Release

Yemen: Free Captive Children

Prisoner Exchange Being Negotiated

Child soldiers with Houthi fighters hold weapons during a demonstration in Sanaa on March 13, 2015.

June 2, 2016 News Release

US: Stop Providing Cluster Munitions

White House Pledges to Halt Deliveries to Saudis

A submunition from a BLU-108 canister from a CBU-105 Senor Fuzed Weapon found by the main road between Sanaa and Saada, about 250 meters south of the al-Amar village on May 16, 2015.

June 2, 2016 News Release

Bahrain: 9-Year Sentence for Opposition Leader

Appeal Court Doubles Sentence

June 1, 2016 News Release

China: Tell the Truth About Tiananmen on Anniversary

Repression of Rights at Post-1989 Peak Under President Xi

June 1, 2016 News Release

Ukraine: 17 Russian Journalists Banned

Drop Sanctions, Respect Media Freedom

May 31, 2016 News Release

Palestine: Hamas Should Halt Executions

3 Executed Amid Perceived Crime Wave

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