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March 21, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: A Firestorm Over the Word “Occupation”

An indigenous Sahrawi woman walks at a refugee camp of Boudjdour in Tindouf, southern Algeria March 3, 2016.

March 21, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: For Water ‘Have Nots,’ Rights Matter

A 7-year-old boy swims in Klity Creek in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. The Pollution Control Department’s environmental tests for 2013 (the last year with all data published) regularly found unacceptably high levels of lead in soil along the creek bank.

March 21, 2016 Statement

UN Human Rights Council: The Vienna Declaration and Program of Action

General Debate under Item 8

March 21, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Nepal Girl Summit Must Lead to Real Change

Nepalese girls welcome Britain's Prince Harry as he visits heritage sites in Patan Durbar Square in the outskirts of Kathmandu, March 20, 2016.

March 21, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: High-Profile ICC Warning to Commanders on Rape

Former Congo vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba looks up when sitting in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court to stand trial in The Hague, Netherlands, September 29, 2015.

March 21, 2016 Commentary

Time for Change at the World’s Largest Watch Fair

March 21, 2016 News Release

Yemen: Embargo Arms to Saudi Arabia

US, UK, France Risk Complicity in Unlawful Airstrikes

A Saudi artillery unit fires shells towards Houthi positions from the Saudi border with Yemen April 13, 2015.

March 21, 2016 Statement

Human Rights Watch comments to the US Sentencing Commission

March 20, 2016 Interview

The Living Hell of People with Mental Health Conditions in Indonesia

A man with a psychosocial disability lies chained at the wrist on a platform bed at the Bina Lestari healing center in Brebes, Central Java. All residents of the healing center are chained. © 2015 Andrea Star Reese for Human Rights Watch

March 20, 2016 News Release

Indonesia: Treating Mental Health With Shackles

People With Psychosocial Disabilities Face Restraints, Abuse

March 20, 2016 Commentary

For Cuba to change requires multilateral effort

March 20, 2016 News Release

Bahrain: Stop Deportations of Nationals

Unlawful Interference With Family Life

Taimoor Karimi was stripped from his Bahraini citizenship on August 10, 2014. © Private

March 18, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Chile’s Welcome Move on Abortion

Demonstrators raie their thumbs in approval during a rally inside congress in favor of a draft law by the government, which seeks to ease the country's strict abortion ban, in Valparaiso, Chile March 17, 2016. The banner reads: "Chile makes history today,

March 18, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Afghanistan Journalists’ Worsening Reporting Perils

A cameraman films a news anchor at Tolo TV studio in Kabul, Afghanistan on October 18, 2015.

March 18, 2016 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

Children washing outside a makeshift camp for asylum seekers and migrants at the port of Piraeus, in Athens. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, estimates that women and children now make up nearly 60 per cent of those seeking refuge in Europe.

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