Plus: Why EU should put sanctions on DRC officials; Iran should be banned from hosting international volleyball; toxic tobacco fears for US child workers; facing gallows for blasphemy in Pakistan; travel ban for Pakistani journalist; & 10 years since Russia's Anna Politkovskaya was killed...

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In human rights news around the world today: Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. HRW asks its social media audience which of Dylan's songs reflect the ideals of the human rights movement. Yemen airstrike on a funeral which killed 100 and injured 500 more is "apparent war crime"; Malaysia's free speech crackdown.

Plus: Why EU should put sanctions on senior DR Congo officials to stem spiraling violence; Iran should be banned from hosting international volleyball; toxic tobacco fears for US child workers, and more.

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