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May 27, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: The Philippine Picture of Badjao Displacement

Evacuees displaced during fighting between government soldiers and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) stay in makeshift shelters in Zamboanga City on September 20, 2013.

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 Commentary

The Rights Weekender

An 8-year-old girl sorts and bundles tobacco leaves by hand near Sampang, East Java.

May 27, 2016 Fact Sheet

Quote of the Day Twitter Poll

May 27, 2016 News Release

Russia: Sham Upgrade for ‘Foreign Agents’ Law

No Relief for Independent Groups

State Duma, the lower house of parliament, in session in Moscow, Russia on April 19, 2016.

May 27, 2016 Commentary

War in Eastern Ukraine Brings Lasting Misery for Elderly

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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 News Release

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

A boy’s hands after harvesting tobacco leaves on a farm near Sampang, East Java.

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 27, 2016 Commentary

Revised Child Welfare Act: the principle of family-based care now guaranteed by the law

May 27, 2016 Commentary

Why Accountability for Iraq’s Militias Matters

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May 26, 2016 Interview

Nothing to Go Back to – From Kenya’s Vast Refugee Camp

An aerial view shows makeshift shelters at the Dagahaley camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border in Garissa County, Kenya. Photo taken April 2011.

May 26, 2016 News Release

Cambodia: Stop Cover-Up of Political Violence

Fully Investigate Attack by Hun Sen Bodyguards on Members of Parliament

Cambodia National Rescue Party assembly members Kung Sophea and Nhay Chamraoen at a Bangkok hospital after the October 26, 2015 attack outside the Cambodian National Assembly in Phnom Penh. October 29, 2015. © 2015 Human Rights Watch

May 26, 2016 Commentary

How the world’s premier auto race can alleviate Azerbaijan’s human-rights crisis

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