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May 16, 2018 Report

Afghanistan: Weak Investigations of Civilian Airstrike Deaths

US, Afghan Forces Need to Visit Sites, Obtain Witness Accounts

An Afghan woman receives medical treatment after being injured during an airstrike in Herat province, Afghanistan, August 29, 2017.
May 16, 2018 Report

Gambia: Ex-President Tied to 2005 Murders of Ghanaian and Nigerian Migrants

Ghanaian Groups Urge Prosecution of Yahya Jammeh

Massacre survivor Martin Kyere at Accra cemetery where six bodies were returned from Gambia.
May 14, 2018 Report

Turkey: Government Targeting Academics

Dismissals, Prosecutions Create Campus Climate of Fear

Turkish riot policemen walk over academic gowns laid down during a protest against the dismissal of academics from universities in the Cebeci campus of Ankara University
May 10, 2018 Report

Palestine: ‘Marry-Your-Rapist’ Law Repealed

Revoke Other Discriminatory Laws Against Women

Photo showing a white dress symbolizing a bride produced by the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling as part of their campaign to repeal article 308 which had allowed rapists to escape prosecution if they married their victims. The message in Arab
April 25, 2018 Report

Israel: Army Demolishing West Bank Schools

Could Amount to War Crimes

Palestinian Bedouin school children walk towards their tents on September 15, 2010 at their Bedouin camp outside the Israeli West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumin. Israel does not recognize the Bedouins’ property claims and has demolished homes and school
April 23, 2018 Report

Strengthening the UN Human Rights Council from the Ground Up

Report of a One-Day Dialogue held on 22 February 2018

Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN high commissioner for human rights, speaks at the 36th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2017.
April 23, 2018 Report

Egypt: Looming Humanitarian Crisis in Sinai

Relief Urgently Needed After 2 Months of Army Restrictions on Food

Still image from a video provided to Human Rights Watch by a Sinai activist and captured on February 27, showing one closed gas station in al-Arish. © 2018 Private
April 17, 2018 Report

Yemen: Detained African Migrants Tortured, Raped

Grant Access to Asylum Procedures; Hold Abusers Accountable

Buraika detention facility for migrants in Aden governorate, Yemen. © 2018 VICE News Tonight on HBO
April 17, 2018 Report

Burundi: Repression Linked to Presidential-Term Vote

Opponents Killed, Imprisoned, and Threatened

Simon Bizimana (left) died in March 2018, possibly from beatings inflicted on him while he was detained for refusing to register to vote in Burundi. Members of the ruling party’s youth league killed Dismas Sinzinkayo (right) in February 2018 after he fail
April 15, 2018 Report

Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Protesters Beaten, Journalists Detained

Security Forces Suppress Demonstrations on Economic Crisis

Riot police use teargas to disperse hundreds of civil servants who gathered during a protest against reduced monthly salaries in Erbil, Iraq on March 25, 2018. © 2018 Hemn Baban/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
April 9, 2018 Report

Friends of Syria: Action Needed at Brussels Conference

Focus on Justice, Refugees, Education

People walk with their belongings as they flee the rebel-held town of Hammouriyeh, in the village of Beit Sawa, eastern Ghouta, Syria March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
March 29, 2018 Report

Mauritania: Administrative Obstacles Keep Kids from School

Daunting Civil Registration Process Depresses Enrollment

Three of Mariama’s ten children: Khadijetou, Asya and Aicha who recently enrolled in primary school despite their lack of civil registration, thanks to the assistance of the Mauritanian NGO Women Heads of Family, Nouakchott, Mauritania, October 23, 2017.
March 27, 2018 Report

Turkey: Crackdown on Social Media Posts

Detention, Prosecutions Over Criticisms of Turkish Army Actions in Syria

Nurcan Baysal, journalist; Ali Erol, LGBT activist; Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, medical doctor;  Kutay  Meriç, executive member of rights group "Halkevleri" (from upper left corner clockwise)
March 15, 2018 Report

Iran: Crackdown on Dervish Minority

Mass Arrests at Protest; Death in Custody

Police Forces at the scene of the clashes, Tehran, Iran February 19, 2018. © 2018 Majzooban-e-Noor
February 27, 2018 Report

Algeria: New Wave of Deportations

Allegations of Beatings in Round-Ups of Sub-Saharan Migrants

Migrants on a truck, leaving the camp in Tamanrasset on February 13, 2018.

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