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Asia

October 10, 2019 News Release

Indonesia: Investigate Environmental Lawyer’s Death
Asia

September 16, 2019 News Release

India: Free Kashmiris Arbitrarily Detained
Middle East/North Africa

September 11, 2019 Commentary

Justice, Delayed in Libya

Hanan Salah
Senior Libya Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division

Published In: Opinio Juris

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October 1, 2015 Video

DR Congo: Mass Rape Victims Deserve Better Justice
September 9, 2015 Video

Sudan: Special Force Rampages and Rapes in Darfur Villages
July 13, 2015 Video

Three Years After ICC Warrant Issued, FDLR Leader Still At Large

Reports More Reports

September 19, 2017

“Fuel on the Fire”

Security Force Response to the 2016 Irreecha Cultural Festival
September 7, 2017

Implicating Humala

Evidence of Atrocities and Cover-Up of Abuses Committed during Peru’s Armed Conflict
July 13, 2017

“All Thieves Must Be Killed”

Extrajudicial Executions in Western Rwanda

News

September 7, 2019 News Release

Bangladesh: Clampdown on Rohingya Refugees
September 4, 2019 News Release

Thailand: ‘Disappeared’ Activist’s Remains Found
August 6, 2019 News Release

India: Basic Freedoms at Risk in Kashmir
August 3, 2019 Dispatches

The End of Thailand’s Human Rights Commission?

Sunai Phasuk
Senior Researcher, Asia Division
August 1, 2019 News Release

Sri Lanka: No Progress in Prosecuting Aid Worker Massacre
July 30, 2019 Dispatches

Killings Escalate in Central Philippines

Brad Adams
Asia Director
July 25, 2019 Dispatches

Former Hitmen Implicate Ex-Gambia Dictator

Reed Brody
Counsel and Spokesperson
July 22, 2019 News Release

Malaysia: Ensure Effective Police Complaints Commission
July 10, 2019 News Release

Kashmir: UN Reports Serious Abuses
June 5, 2019 Commentary

For Rohingya Refugees, There’s No Return in Sight

Meenakshi Ganguly
South Asia Director

Published In: Foreign Affairs
May 18, 2019 News Release

Thailand: No Justice 9 Years After ‘Red Shirt’ Crackdown
May 7, 2019 News Release

Algeria: Judicial Harassment of Human Rights Lawyer

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International Justice by Country

Spotlight on War Crimes in Syria: Daily Brief

Daily Brief

October 18, 2019

New reports about war crimes in Syria; outrage as Venezuela gets seat on United Nations Human Rights Council; Guinea's government should end crackdown on opponents to new constitution; governments should integrate human rights protections into their efforts to digitize and automate welfare services; horrible consequences of Europe's migration and refugee policies deserve more attention; and check our Facebook live on abuses against older people in Australia.