Many schools across the United States remain hostile environments for LGBT students despite significant progress on LGBT rights in recent years.

The Chinese government should immediately abolish a secretive detention system used to coerce confessions from corruption suspects.

Hate crimes are spiking and elected leaders are rejecting basic standards of human rights. It is the darkest decline in global values we’ve seen in our 38 years standing up for human rights.

The Russian-Syrian coalition committed war crimes during a month-long aerial bombing campaign of opposition-controlled territory in Aleppo in September and October 2016.

Kazakhstan’s new trade union law, adopted after unresolved labor strikes in 2011, has made it more difficult to organize independent unions in the country.

Around the world, schools are attacked or being occupied by military forces and armed groups in conflict zones. It endangers the lives of students, their teachers, and denies hundreds of thousands of children their right to education.

The Gambian government’s repression of the political opposition in the months prior to the December 1, 2016 presidential election threatens the fairness of the election.

Security forces of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government have unlawfully destroyed large numbers of Arab homes, and sometimes entire villages, in areas retaken from the Islamic State

Police of Qayyarah dumping the remnant of a projectile containing toxic chemicals, without any protective equipment, from the town's main road into the Tigris River on October 6, 2016.

Police and residents of Qayyarah remove a projectile containing toxic chemicals, without any protective equipment, from the garden of a family home in the town of Qayyarah on September 21, 2016.