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September 2, 2016 Dispatches

The Death of a Small Syrian Boy

One Year After Alan Kurdi’s Drowning, Mediterranean Death Tolls Rise

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September 1, 2016 Dispatches

Attack in Afghanistan Shutters its School for the Blind

Insurgent Attack Destroyed Braille Printing Press, Classrooms

Damage from shrapnel is seen on the walls and locked garage doors at the Vocational High School for the Blind in Kabul, following an attack on August 25, 2016 that left the school closed.
September 1, 2016 Dispatches

Serbian Children with Disabilities Left Out of School

Government Should Implement Law Providing for Inclusive Education

A living room in Veternik Institution where children and adults with disabilities spend most of their days. There are no toys, education materials, or carpets on the floor. The only available source of stimulation is a TV attached to the wall.
August 31, 2016 Dispatches

What Nauru Is Hiding From Danish Lawmakers

Australia’s Offshore Refugee Processing Center Is No Model for Europe

Refugee children held on Nauru protest Australia’s offshore detention, August 2016.
August 31, 2016 Dispatches

Bush Administration Gave US Supreme Court Inaccurate Immigration Data

Court’s Ensuing Ruling Allowed Prolonged Detention for Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants

Melida Ruiz, a lawful permanent resident, pictured with her daughter, Mercedez Ruiz, and her grandson, Christopher Gonzalez.
August 30, 2016 Dispatches

Indonesian LGBT Activists Receive Free Expression Award

Government Should Support Inclusive Democratic Values

Kanza Vina (left), a transgender woman, talks with Abhipraya Ardiansyah (far right), a transgender man, and Yuli Rustinawati (center), their colleague from Forum LGBTIQ Indonesia. Vina and Abhipraya received awards from an independent journalism union.
August 30, 2016 Dispatches

Baltimore Police Stretch Laws to Spy on Thousands

Aerial Surveillance Latest in Pattern of Abuses Based on Legal Loopholes

Photograph depicting an aerial view of the city of Baltimore, Maryland, April 29, 2015.
August 29, 2016 Dispatches

Turkmenistan is Not Free After All

Germany Should Press Government to Respect Basic Rights, Freedoms

Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov (L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel speak at a press conference in Berlin, Germany, August 29, 2016.
August 29, 2016 Dispatches

Kenya’s 'Disappeared' Deserve Justice

President Should Order Investigations, Not Just Blame Al-Shabab

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August 27, 2016 Dispatches

An End to France’s Shameful Burkini Ban?

Protesters demonstrate against France's burkini ban outside the French Embassy in London, August 25, 2016.
August 25, 2016 Dispatches

Philippine Government’s ‘War on Drugs’ Claims Child Victim

Justice Secretary Defends Killing Suspected Drug Dealers, Users

Members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) investigation unit checks the body of one of the five suspected drug pushers killed in a police operation in Quiapo city, metro Manila, Philippines July 3, 2016.
August 25, 2016 Dispatches

France’s Shameful and Absurd Burkini Ban

Banning Burkini in Wake of Terror Attacks Creates Dangerous Confusion

A Muslim woman wears a burkini, a swimsuit that leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, on a beach in Marseille, France, August 17, 2016.
August 23, 2016 Dispatches

Executions in Iraq Not Real Justice for Speicher Massacre

Fair Trials Needed to Restore Faith in Justice System

A member from the Iraqi forensic team writes on the body bag of remains belonging to Shi'ite soldiers from Camp Speicher who have been killed by Islamic State militants at a mass grave in the presidential compound of the former Iraqi president Saddam Huss
August 23, 2016 Dispatches

Where Is Outrage Over Incendiary Weapons Attacks in Syria?

Three Years After Horrific School Attack, Civilians Still Harmed

At least four incendiary submunitions burn on the ground of a narrow street in the al-Mashhad neighborhood of opposition-held east Aleppo city immediately after an incendiary weapon attack on August 7, 2016.
August 22, 2016 Dispatches

Philippine Police Killing Spree Demands Accountability

Hundreds Dead in “Anti-Drug Operations” Since July 1

PNP Director-General Ronald Dela Rosa speaks at a Senate hearing investigating drug-related killings in metro Manila, Philippines on August 22, 2016.

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