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Middle East/North Africa

May 11, 2015 News Release

Libya: New ICC Investigation Needed Amid Crisis
Middle East/North Africa

September 8, 2014 News Release

Bahrain: Free High-Profile Activists
Middle East/North Africa

July 24, 2014 News Release

Libya: ICC Judges Reject Sanussi Appeal

News

July 17, 2014 Commentary

LA Times: Egypt's president wishes Al Jazeera journalists had not been tried
December 3, 2013 News Release

Syria: Aid to Besieged Areas Being Blocked
November 26, 2013 News Release

Egypt: Deeply Restrictive New Assembly Law
September 19, 2013 News Release

Libya: A Rebuff to the ICC
June 25, 2013 News Release

Syria: Counterterrorism Court Used to Stifle Dissent
February 12, 2013 News Release

Kuwait: Rights Setbacks Amid Political Crisis
February 11, 2013 News Release

Syria: Authorize Cross-Border Humanitarian Aid
February 4, 2013 Commentary

How to Keep the Arab Spring Blossoming

Kenneth Roth
Executive Director

Published In: CNN.com
January 24, 2013 News Release

Egypt: Publish Fact-Finding Committee Report
January 18, 2013 News Release

Egypt: Don’t Force Palestinians Back to Syria
January 16, 2013 Commentary

The gruesome toll of deadly cluster bombs in Syria

Mary Wareham
Advocacy Director, Arms Division

Published In: CNN
January 14, 2013 News Release

Syria: Army Using New Type of Cluster Munition
December 21, 2012 News Release

Syria: Strong Coalition Message Against Targeting Civilians
December 12, 2012 News Release

Syria: Incendiary Weapons Used in Populated Areas
November 19, 2012 News Release

Egypt: Protester Killings a Test for Morsy
October 23, 2012 News Release

Syria: Despite Denials, More Cluster Bomb Attacks
October 14, 2012 News Release

Syria: New Evidence Military Dropped Cluster Bombs
October 14, 2012 News Release

Bahrain: Overturn Rights Activist’s Conviction
October 8, 2012 News Release

Bahrain: King Should Quash Convictions
August 14, 2012 News Release

UN: Human Rights Monitors Still Needed in Syria
July 12, 2012 News Release

Syria: Evidence of Cluster Munitions Use by Syrian Forces
June 30, 2012 News Release

Syria: Rights, Accountability Key to Transition Plan

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September 13, 2013

“No One’s Left”

Summary Executions by Syrian Forces in al-Bayda and Baniyas
September 10, 2013

Attacks on Ghouta

Analysis of Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria
June 1, 2011

“We’ve Never Seen Such Horror”

Crimes against Humanity by Syrian Security Forces

COVID-19 Surveillance without the Dystopia, Please: Daily Brief

Daily Brief

COVID-19 surveillance without the dystopia, Please; Pakistani workers vulnerable to economic consequences of coronavirus; discrimination against Syrian refugees in Lebanon; Cambodian power grab amidst coronavirus outbreak; dozens stranded at Ukrainian border; Uganda's use of excessive force against citizens; human rights film festival goes online; and shhhhh... don't say the name - EU leaders engage in absurd "Voldemort diplomacy."