Iraq: Looting, Destruction by Forces Fighting ISIS
Armed forces fighting Islamic State (also known as ISIS) to retake a town and four villages near Mosul looted, damaged, and destroyed...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 16, 2017
‘I Don’t Think Her Heart Will Ever Like This Baby’ Protecting Children of Rape, the Invisible Victim
Akinyi was only 11 years old when three men broke into her home in Kericho, Kenya, in December 2007, as post-election violence raged, and...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 14, 2017
Burma Loses a Key Voice for Tolerance
Supporters carry the coffin of U Ko Ni in Rangoon, Burma, on January 30, 2017. © 2017 Reuters The murder of U Ko Ni, a longtime rights...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 4, 2017
Fiji forces Iranian refugee back to Papua New Guinea
By Geoff Hill Fiji outraged rights groups on Friday by forcing an Iranian refugee back to Papua New Guinea where he had spent more than...
The Washington Times
Feb 3, 2017
Pushbacks, Abuse at Borders
Bulgarian border police stand near a barbed wire fence on the Bulgarian-Turkish border on July 17, 2014. © 2014 Reuters Bulgarian law...
Human Rights Watch
Jan 20, 2017
Asylum Seekers Forced Back to Serbia
Croatian police are forcing asylum seekers back to Serbia from inside Croatia, in some cases using violence, without giving them an...
Human Rights Watch
Jan 20, 2017
It’s Time to End Child Statelessness in Estonia
By Helen Griffiths Estonia's President Toomas Hendrik addresses the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York,...
Human Rights Watch
Jan 17, 2017
China’s Hidden Massacres: An Interview with Tan Hecheng
Tan Hecheng might seem an unlikely person to expose one of the most shocking crimes of the Chinese Communist Party. A congenial...
The New York Review of Books
Jan 13, 2017
Angola: New Media Law Threatens Free Speech
Update: On January 23, Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos signed the new media law that limits freedom of expression, despite...
Human Rights Watch
Nov 30, 2016
Central African Republic: Mayhem by New Group Murders, Rapes by 3R Armed Group in Northwest
A recently formed armed group called “Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation,” or 3R, has killed civilians, raped, and caused largescale...
Human Rights Watch
Nov 20, 2016
Preventing a New Attempt at Destabilisation
As the donor conference for the Central African Republic (CAR) takes place in Brussels on 17 November, the post-election status quo is...
International Crisis Group 1
Nov 16, 2016
Confrontation in Zimbabwe Turns Increasingly Violent
Zimbabwe may not be a failed state yet, but its rulers are doing nothing to prevent its collapse. After months of empty promises of...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 6, 2016
