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May 7, 2019 News Release

Iraq: Confining Families With Alleged ISIS Ties Unlawful

Reject Plan to ‘Intern’ Up to 280,000 Women, Children

Graffiti that reads "Daesh (ISIS)," marks the home of relatives of an ISIS member in a west Mosul neighborhood, Iraq. © 2018 Private.
May 6, 2019 Commentary

US Counterterrorism Under the UN Spotlight

Heads of state and their representatives take part in a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to address the situation in the Middle East during the General Assembly for the 71st session of the U.N. General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New Yo
April 22, 2019 News Release

Sri Lanka: Prosecute Easter Sunday Attackers

Nearly 300 Killed in Eight Bombings of Churches, Hotels

Relatives light candles after burial of three victims of the same family, who died at Easter Sunday bomb blast at St. Sebastian Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, April 22, 2019.
April 2, 2019 News Release

UN: Security Council Resolution Undermines Aid, Human Rights Work

New Counterterrorism Financing Measure Open to Easy Abuse

The United Nations Security Council meets to discuss adopting a resolution to help preserve evidence of Islamic State crimes in Iraq, during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York, U.S., September 21, 2017. © 2017Reuters
March 13, 2019 News Release

Iraq: Key Courts Improve ISIS Trial Procedures

But Changes Needed in Laws, Response to Torture, Other Courts

An empty courtroom at Nineveh’s counterterrorism court in Tal Kayf, north of Mosul.
March 5, 2019 News Release

UN: Don’t Let Egypt Undermine Expert’s Role

Protect Human Rights in Counterterrorism Operations

Egyptian security forces have been involved in systematic abuses such as enforced disappearance and torture and have used abusive counterterrorism laws and measures to crush peaceful dissent. Egyptian security forces stand guard outside one of the entranc
February 25, 2019 News Release

Iraq: Officials Arrest, Abuse, Harass Aid Workers

Corruption and Discrimination Intertwined

Graffiti that reads "Daesh (ISIS)," marks the home of relatives of an ISIS member in a west Mosul neighborhood, Iraq. © 2018 Private.
February 22, 2019 Letter

Renewal of the mandate of Special Rapporteur on promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism

Joint NGO letter to Members and Observers of the Human Rights Council

In this file photo, Egyptian security forces stand guard outside a court in Cairo, Egypt, January 3, 2018. © REUTERS
February 22, 2019 News Release

Syria: Concerns for Civilians Escaping ISIS Holdout

Satellite Imagery Reveals Large-Scale Destruction of Buildings

Satellite-analysis of US-led coalition air strike locations in Baghuz (19 January - 20 February 2019)
February 21, 2019 News Release

Mozambique: Media Barred from Insurgent Region

Journalists Covering Conflict Intimidated, Detained, Prosecuted

Mozambican army soldiers patrol the streets of Mocimboa da Praia after security in the area was increased following a two-day attack by suspected Islamist fighters, March 2018. © 2018 ADRIEN BARBIER/AFP/Getty Images
February 12, 2019 Report

Tunisia: Scant Help to Bring Home ISIS Members’ Children

200 Held in Squalid Camps and Prisons in Libya, Syria, Iraq

A woman walks with a child in Roj camp, which holds foreign wives and children of Islamic State (ISIS) members, in northeast Syria, September 2018. © 2018 Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images
February 5, 2019 Commentary

Bringing ISIS to Justice: Running Out of Time?

January 31, 2019 Commentary

It shouldn’t take Pink Floyd to rescue ISIS fighters’ abandoned children

Governments with nationals trapped in Syria should do what Roger Waters did when he saved Mahmud and Ayyub Ferreira

A member of a nongovernmental organization accompanies two children and their mother (right) out of a northeastern Syria camp for wives and children of Islamic State members, January 21, 2019. (Faces blurred by Getty Images.) © 2019 Delil Souleiman/AFP/Ge
January 31, 2019 News Release

Mozambique: Suspicious Death of Suspect in Custody

Many Questions for Government over Hanekom Case

Andre Hanekom with his daughter Amanda Hanekom @2019 Private
January 28, 2019 Commentary

How French Weapons Enable Egypt’s Abuses

French President Emmanuel Macron meets with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the presidential palace in Cairo on January 28, 2019. © 2019 Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images

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