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April 15, 2016 Commentary

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An eager student leads her class in learning the alphabet in September 2015 at a displacement camp housed at a school in Maiduguri, Borno state. © 2015 Bede Sheppard, Human Rights Watch

April 15, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Kremlin Mopping Up the Remaining Dissenters in Crimea

Russian security forces attempt to block Crimean Tatars trying to cross a checkpoint connecting Crimea to the rest of Ukraine, to attend a meeting.

April 15, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Lack of Justice for Victims in Kenya is no Cause for Celebration

Kamene F. stands outside her house in a slum in Nairobi with her 7-year-old son born from rape.

April 15, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: EU Should Greet Indonesian President with Rights Message

Indonesian President Joko Widodo gestures during an interview with Reuters at the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia February 10, 2016.

April 15, 2016 Commentary

Why We Need to Ban Killer Robots

April 15, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: A Refugee Sanctuary on Lesbos the Pope Should Visit

Mural painting welcoming asylum seekers and migrants at PIKPA, a volunteer-run camp on Lesbos island, Greece. Since 2012 thousands of people fleeing war and persecution who have reached the island have found shelter at PIKPA.

April 14, 2016 News Release

Nepal: End Intimidation of Human Rights Commission

Interference by Prime Minister Deliberate Attempt to Stifle Independence

April 14, 2016 Commentary

Why has the World Forgotten Islamic State's Female Sex Slaves?

A Sunni Muslim woman who fled the Islamic State's strongholds.

April 14, 2016 News Release

Turkey: Open Borders to Syrians Fleeing ISIS

At least 30,000 Trapped Amid Northern Syria Fighting

Internally displaced Syrians outside Azaz town, fleeing ISIS advances north of Aleppo near the closed Turkish border.

April 14, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Swimming against the LGBT Tide in China

Activists raise a rainbow flag as they march during a demonstration to mark the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia in Changsha, Hunan province May 17, 2013.

April 14, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Time to Tackle Rights Failings in “House of Football”

April 14, 2016 Commentary

Upholding Abuse in Venezuela

Venezuela's Supreme Court building in the capital Caracas on December 23, 2015.

April 14, 2016 Report

Greece: Asylum Seekers Locked Up

Wretched Conditions for People in Need

April 13, 2016 Statement

Indonesia: Remarks by Kenneth Roth, Executive Director

Human Rights Watch and KontraS Press Conference

April 13, 2016 News Release

North Korea: Kim Il-Sung’s Catastrophic Rights Legacy

End Ongoing Discrimination, Abductions and Enforced Disappearances

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