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May 3, 2017 Report

Human Rights Benchmarks for Sudan

Eight Ways to Measure Progress

May 3, 2017 News Release

US: Prioritize Rights in Sudan Evaluation

Adopt Benchmarks for Meaningful Reforms

Women and children displaced by attacks of the Sudanese government Rapid Support Forces outside caves in rebel-controlled territory in Jebel Marra, Darfur, March 2, 2014.

May 3, 2017 Dispatches

Open Letter to Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz on Libya

Migrants are Not the Enemy

Migrants on a wooden boat await rescue by the Malta-based NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station in the central Mediterranean in international waters off the coast of Sabbath, Libya on April 15, 2017. © 2017 Reuters

May 2, 2017 Report

2 Israelis Who Entered Gaza Held Incommunicado

Disappeared Men Have History of Mental Health Conditions

May 2, 2017 Statement

Human Rights Priorities for Somalia’s New Government

Prisoners at Mogadishu Central Prison watch as a guard walks pass their cell in December 2013. Most of the military court’s hearings in Mogadishu take place inside the prison, which limits access to hearings for relatives and independent monitors.

May 2, 2017 News Release

Somalia: Rights Priorities for New Government

Help At-Risk Civilians, Improve Oversight of Security Forces

May 2, 2017 News Release

Nepal: Assault on Judicial Independence

Parliament Should Drop Attempt to Impeach Chief Justice

epalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (4th L), also known as Prachanda, along with President Bidhya Devi Bhandari (3rd L), Vice President Nanda Kishor Pun (2nd L), and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Sushila Karki (L).

May 2, 2017 News Release

Thailand: Rights Lawyer Feared ‘Disappeared’

Prawet Prapanukul Missing Since April 29

May 2, 2017 Commentary

Scapegoating in the name of fighting drugs: What Trump and Duterte have in common

May 2, 2017 Commentary

Brave Educators Face Down Mortal Danger, But They Need Help

May 2, 2017 Dispatches

Trump’s America Not So Great for People with Disabilities

Healthcare Bill Threatens Millions

Protesters with ADAPT, a disabled people's rights organization, stage a demonstration at the gates of the White House in Washington, April 20, 2015.

May 2, 2017 Statement

Free Azerbaijani Journalist Mehman Huseynov

Joint Statement

May 2, 2017 Commentary

Fixing Solitary Confinement in New York State Prisons

May 2, 2017 Statement

Submission by Human Rights Watch on Australia to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

May 2, 2017 News Release

Central African Republic: Armed Groups Target Civilians

Violence Spikes in Central Region

Children of a Peuhl man killed in February 2017 by FPRC and anti-balaka fighters near Baïdou, a village between Ippy and Bria in the Central African Republic.

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