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May 27, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: A Gift From Japan to Its Children

Beds in sleeping quarters for elementary school girls at a child care institution in Iwate prefecture. Eight girls share a room, and the space on their own bed is the only place children are allowed some privacy.

May 27, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: ISIS Advance Traps 165,000 Syrians at Closed Turkish Border

At Tal Abyad –Akçakale border crossing, in June 2015, Turkish border guards manning Turkey’s closed border watched ISIS fighters order displaced Syrian civilians back from the border.

May 27, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Beyond Just a Feel-Good Refrain

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May 27, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: China Should End Deaths in Police Custody

A “tiger chair” specially designed to restrain detainees. Former detainees say that police often strap them into these metal chairs for hours and even days, depriving detainees of sleep, and immobilizing them until their legs and buttocks were swollen.

May 25, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Leading Azerbaijani Journalist Freed From Prison

Khadija Ismayilova smiles as she leaves prison after 18 months of imprisonment on bogus charges, Baku, Azerbaijan, on May 25, 2016.

May 24, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Filipino Children Promised Better Disaster Relief

Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan pass the time at a school where hundreds have found shelter at, in Tacloban, Philippines, November 21, 2013.

May 24, 2016 Dispatches

No More Excuses: The Need for an Inclusive Humanitarian Response

Hamamatou, a 13-year-old girl polio survivor, was abandoned by her family after their village was attacked by anti-balaka forces in Central African Republic.

May 23, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Dignity at Stake for Refugees with Disabilities in Greece

Mud covers the deflated wheel of an Iraqi refugee’s wheelchair outside his tent at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece, March 17, 2016.

May 20, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: A Bittersweet Victory for Leading Angolan Activist

Mavungo’s wife Adolfina Mavungo met him by the gates of the Cabinda prison, when he was released on Friday morning, May 20, 2016.

May 19, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: The Philippines’ Pay-Per-Hit Police

May 19, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Return of Chibok Schoolgirl Renews Hope

May 18, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: UN Chides France on Mental Health Care in Prisons

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May 18, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Police Brutality Threatens Rights in Kenya

A Kenyan policeman beats a protester during clashes in Nairobi, Kenya May 16, 2016.

May 17, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: The Philippines’ Unaddressed HIV Epidemic

Campaign supporters lights on around 1,638 candles representing the number of dead victims claimed by HIV/AIDS in the Philippines since 1984 as part of their commemoration of International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Day in Quezon city, metro Manila in the

May 17, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Give Syria’s Survivors a Voice

People stand near the damage after air strikes on May 5 hit a camp for internally displaced people in Syria's Idlib province near the Turkish border, May 7, 2016.

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