(Bangkok) – Eleven countries from the Asia-Pacific region were among the small minority that voted against a United Nations resolution opposing the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said today. On November 17, 120 UN member states voted in favor of a…

This submission focuses on the protection of students, teachers, and schools during armed conflict. Protection of Education During Armed Conflict (articles 28, 38, and 39) In June 2015, the United Nations Security Council unanimously…

Last month, Tonga’s Ministry of Justice partnered with a local women and girls’ rights group, the Talitha Project, to launch a campaign to end child marriage in the Polynesian nation of 106,000 people. The “Let Girls be Girls!” campaign…