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April 2, 2016 Commentary

Rescuing Pakistan

Rescue workers move a body from the site of a blast outside a public park in Lahore, Pakistan on March 27, 2016.

April 1, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: The Kenyan President’s Failed Promises to Rape Victims

Nafula K.,46, was gang raped together with three other women by four men in January 2008 while at an IDP camp.

April 1, 2016 Letter

HRW Allegation Letter to UN Special Rapporteurs

Re: Legal Recognition of Transgender People in Japan

April 1, 2016 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

A woman chained in a room built behind her family home in Ponorogo, East Java. She is forced to eat, sleep, and defecate in this room.

April 1, 2016 Commentary

Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week

A group of child brides at Annandale farm, Shamva, Mashonaland Central Province after participating in a community meeting on ending child marriage.

April 1, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: On Peacekeeper Abuse, Put Survivors First

A United Nations peacekeeper stands alongside a road during Pope Francis' visit to the capital Bangui, November 29, 2015. © 2015 Reuters

April 1, 2016 News Release

Yemen: Baha’i Adherent Faces Death Penalty

End Persecution of Religious Minority

April 1, 2016 Report

Rwanda: Ex-Military Officers Convicted Over Comments

Investigate Allegations of Torture, Witness Tampering

Col. Tom Byabagamba speaking to his lawyer before his hearing at the military court in Kigali on August 29, 2014.

March 31, 2016 News Release

UN Meeting Ducks Syria Refugee Responsibility

Meager Pledges as 92 Countries Meet

Syrians arrive at a camp for internally displaced persons on the outskirts of Azaz town, 5 kilometers south of Bab al-Salam and Turkey’s closed Öncüpınar border post on February 6, 2016.

March 31, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Ending Child Marriage in Zimbabwe

A group of child brides at Annandale farm, Shamva, Mashonaland Central Province after participating in a community meeting on ending child marriage.

March 31, 2016 Impact

Dispatches: Ending Child Marriage in Zimbabwe

A group of child brides at Annandale farm, Shamva, Mashonaland Central Province after participating in a community meeting on ending child marriage.

March 31, 2016 Commentary

What’s Really at Stake at the Nuclear Security Summit

March 31, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Basic Rights Still a Pipe Dream in Angola

Some of the 17 activists who have been sentenced to jail terms of between two and eight years, after prosecutors introduced a new charge of “criminal conspiracy," Angola, 2015.

March 31, 2016 Witness

Witness: They Told My Mother They Would Cut Me Into Pieces

Witness Mexico 4

March 31, 2016 News Release

Algeria: Labor Protests Forcibly Dispersed

Teachers Beaten, Arrested

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