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- No place for children : child recruitment, forced marriage, and attacks on schools in Somalia
- "As if we weren't human" : discrimination and violence against women with disabilities in Northern Uganda
- "Beat him, take everything away" : abuses by China's chengguan para-police
- "Being neutral is our biggest crime" : government, vigilante, and Naxalite abuses in India's Chhattisgarh State
- "Bring the gun or you'll die" : torture, rape, and other serious human rights violations by Kenyan security forces in the Mandera Triangle
- "Crossfire" : continued human rights abuses by Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion
- "I am not dead, but I am not living" : barriers to fistula prevention and treatment in Kenya
- "I used to think the law would protect me" : Illinois's failure to test rape kits
- "I want to help my own people" : state control and civil society in Burma after Cyclone Nargis
- "If you come back we will kill you" : sexual violence and other abuses against Congolese migrants during expulsions from Angola
- "My children have been poisoned" : a public health crisis in four Chinese provinces
- "Nobody remembers us" : failure to protect women's and girls' right to health and security in post-earthquake Haiti
- "Not worth a penny" : human rights abuses against transgender people in Honduras
- "Off the backs of the children" : forced begging and other abuses against Talibés in Senegal
- "Steps of the devil" : Denial of women's and girl's rights to sport in Saudi Arabia
- "Stop making excuses" : accountability for maternal health care in South Africa
- "The island of happiness" : exploitation of migrant workers on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi
- "The law was against me" : migrant women's access to protection for family violence in Belgium
- "The root of humiliation" : abusive identity checks in France
- "Their future is at stake" : attacks on teachers and schools in Pakistan's Balochistan Province
- "These fellows must be eliminated" : relentless violence and impunity in Manipur
- "They hunt us down for fun" : discrimination and police violence against transgender women in Kuwait
- "They killed them like it was nothing" : the need for justice for Côte d'Ivoire's post-election crimes
- "They took me and told me nothing" : female genital mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan
- "They want us exterminated" : murder, torture, sexual orientation and gender in Iraq
- "They're chasing us away from sport" : human rights violations in sex testing of elite women athletes
- "This old man can feed us, you will marry him" : child and forced marriage in South Sudan
- "Troops in contact" : airstrikes and civilian deaths in Afghanistan
- "We are a buried generation" : discrimination and violence against sexual minorities in Iran
- "We have the promises of the world" : women's rights in Afghanistan
- "We live as in war" : crackdown on protesters in the Governorate of Homs
- "We stood, they opened fire" : killings and arrests by Sudan's security forces during the September protests
- "We were sent to kill you" : gang attacks in Western Kenya and the government's failed response
- "We'll show you you're a woman" : violence and discrimination against black lesbians and transgender men in South Africa
- "What did I do wrong?" : Papuans in Merauke face abuses by Indonesian special forces
- "Who will tell me what happened to my son?" : Russia's implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgments on Chechnya
- "Why am I still here?" : the 2007 Horn of Africa renditions and the fate of those still missing
- "Will I get my dues -- before I die?" : Harm to women from Bangladesh's discriminatory laws on marriage, separation, and divorce
- "Work on him until he confesses" : impunity for torture in Egypt
- "You can die any time" : death squad killings in Mindanao
- "You dress according to their rules" : enforcement of an Islamic dress code for women in Chechnya
- "You will be punished" : attacks on civilians in Eastern Congo
- A decade under Chavez : political intolerance and lost opportunities for advancing human rights in Venezuela
- A face and a name : civilian victims of insurgent groups in Iraq
- A lawsuit against the human rights league, an assault on all rights activists
- A media minefield : increased threats to freedom of expression in Uganda
- A poisonous mix : child labor, mercury, and artisanal gold mining in Mali
- A red herring : marijuana arrestees do not become violent felons
- A state of isolation : access to abortion for women in Ireland
- Afghanistan : "We want to live as humans" : repression of women and girls in western Afghanistan
- Afghanistan : Crisis of impunity : the role of Pakistan, Russia, and Iran in fueling the civil war
- Afghanistan : massacres of Hazaras in Afghanistan
- Afghanistan : paying for the Taliban's crimes : abuses against ethnic Pashtuns in Northern Afghanistan
- Afghanistan : the massacre in Mazar-I Sharif
- Against all odds : prison conditions for youth offenders serving life without parole sentences in the United States
- Albania : the cost of speech : violations of media freedom in Albania
- Algeria : truth and justice on hold : the new state commission on "disappearances"
- An alleyway in hell : China's abusive "black jails"
- Arbitrary killings by security forces : submission to the investigative bodies on the November 28-29, 2008 violence in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria
- As fragile as a crystal glass : press freedom in Iran
- Bed and breakfast on stolen land : tourist rental listings in West Bank settlements
- Beyond negotiation : international humanitarian law and its application to the conduct of the FARC-EP
- Blood-stained hands : past atrocities in Kabul and Afghanistan's legacy of impunity
- Bosnia and Hercegovina : a closed, dark place : past and present human rights abuses in Foca
- Brazil : "real dungeons" : juvenile detention in the State of Rio de Janeiro
- Brazil : cruel confinement : abuses against detained children in Northern Brazil
- Breaking the silence : child sexual abuse in India
- Broken system : dysfunction, abuse, and impunity in the Indian police
- Buffeted in the borderland : the treatment of asylum seekers and migrants in Ukraine
- Building a better World Cup : protecting migrant workers in Qatar ahead of FIFA 2022
- Burma/Bangladesh : Burmese refugees in Bangladesh: still no durable solution
- Burma/Thailand : unwanted and unprotected : Burmese refugees in Thailand
- Burundi : emptying the hills : regroupment in Burundi
- Burundi : neglecting justice in making peace
- Cambodia : Cambodia's commune elections : setting the stage for the 2003 national elections
- Cambodia : fair elections not possible
- Center of the storm : a case study of human rights abuses in Hebron district
- China's forbidden zones : shutting the media out of Tibet and other "sensitive" stories
- Classrooms in the crosshairs : military use of schools in Yemen's capital
- Clinton's landmine legacy
- Colombia human rights certification III briefing paper
- Confessions at any cost : police torture in Russia
- Containment plan : Bulgaria's pushbacks and detention of Syrian and other asylum seekers and migrants
- Controlling bodies, denying identities : human rights violations against trans people in the Netherlands
- Cote d'Ivoire : the new racism : the political manipulation of ethnicity in Cote d'Ivoire
- Crime or custom? : violence against women in Pakistan
- Criminal reprisals : Kenyan police and military abuses against ethnic Somalis
- Criminalizing identities : rights abuses in Cameroon based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Cruel and usual : disproportionate sentences for New York drug offenders
- Custody and control : conditions of confinement in New York's juvenile prisons for girls
- Côte d'Ivoire : "my heart is cut" : sexual violence by rebels and pro-government forces in Côte d'Ivoire
- Dangerous indifference : violence against minorities in Serbia
- Deliberate chaos : ongoing human rights abuses in the Marange diamond fields in Zimbabwe
- Delivered into enemy hands : US-led abuse and rendition of opponents to Gaddafi's Libya
- Democracy in the crossfire : opposition violence and government abuses in the 2014 pre- and post-election period in Bangladesh
- Democracy on rocky ground : Armenia's disputed 2008 presidential election, post-election violence, and the one-sided pursuit of accountability
- Democracy or monopoly? : Angola's reluctant return to elections
- Democratic Republic of Congo : Eastern Congo ravaged : killing civilians and silencing protest
- Democratic Republic of Congo : Uganda in eastern DRC : fueling political and ethnic strife
- Democratic Republic of Congo : reluctant recruits : children and adults forcibly recruited for military service in North Kivu
- Denied dignity : systematic discrimination and hostility toward Saudi Shia citizens
- Diamonds in the rough : human rights abuses in the Marange diamond fields of Zimbabwe
- Disappearances and arbitrary arrests in the armed conflict with Huthi rebels in Yemen
- Discrimination, denial, and deportation : human rights abuses affecting migrants living with HIV
- Domestic plight : how Jordanian laws, officials, employers, and recruiters fail abused migrant domestic workers
- Dominican Republic : "illegal people" : Haitians and Dominico-Haitians in the Dominican Republic
- Egypt : charged with being children : Egyptian police abuse of children in need of protection
- Egypt : mass arrests and torture in Sinai
- Entrenching impunity : government responsibility for international crimes in Darfur
- Ethiopia : the curtailment of rights
- Everyday intolerance : racist and xenophobic violence in Italy
- Evicted and forsaken : internally displaced persons in the aftermath of Operation Murambatsvina
- Failing its families : lack of paid leave and work-family supports in the US
- Far from justice : Syria's Supreme State Security Court
- Fast track land reform in Zimbabwe
- Fast-tracked unfairness : detention and denial of women asylum seekers in the UK
- Fear for life : violence against gay men and men perceived as gay in Senegal
- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia : curtailing political dissent : Serbia's campaign of violence and harassment against government critics
- Fields of peril : child labor in US agriculture
- Fingers to the bone : United States failure to protect child farmworkers
- Forced apart (by the numbers) : non-citizens deported mostly for nonviolent offenses
- Freedom of expression and association in the Kurdish regions
- Freedom of expression still threatened
- Freedom of the media and political freedoms in the prelude to the 1999 elections
- From horror to hopelessness : Kenya's forgotten Somali refugee crisis
- From the tiger to the crocodile : abuse of migrant workers in Thailand
- Futures stolen : barriers to education for children with disabilities in Nepal
- Georgia : backtracking on reform : amendments undermine access to justice
- Georgia : undue punishment : abuses against prisoners in Georgia
- Global state of pain treatment : access to medicines and palliative care
- Group denial : repression of Kurdish political and cultural rights in Syria
- Guests of the governor : administrative detention undermines the rule of law in Jordan
- Guilty by association : human rights violations in the enforcement of Cameroon's anti-homosexuality law
- Guinea : refugees still at risk : continuing refugee protection concerns in Guinea
- Hostages of tension : intimidation and harassment of ethnic Albanians in Serbia after Kosovo's declaration of independence
- Hostile shores : abuse and refoulement of asylum seekers and refugees in Yemen
- Hostile to democracy : the movement system and political repression in Uganda
- How come you allow little girls to get married? : child marriage in Yemen
- Human rights and Saudi Arabia's counterterrorism response : religious counseling, indefinite detention, and flawed trials
- Human rights watch : caste discrimination : a global concern
- Humanity denied : systematic denial of women's rights in Afghanistan
- Ignoring executions and torture : impunity for Bangladesh's security forces
- Illusions of care : lack of accountability for reproductive rights in Argentina
- Impairing education : corporal punishment of students with disabilities in US public schools
- In religion's name : abuses against religious minorities in Indonesia
- India : behind the Kashmir conflict : abuses by Indian security forces and militant groups continue
- Indifference to duty : impunity for crimes committed in Nepal
- Indonesia : Aceh under martial law : inside the secret war
- Indonesia : a return to the new order? : political prisoners in Megawati's Indonesia
- Indonesia : communal violence in West Kalimantan
- Indonesia : human rights and pro-independence actions in Irian Jaya
- Indonesia : human rights and pro-independence actions in Papua, 1999-2000
- Indonesia : violence and political impasse in Papua
- Indonesia/East Timor : forced expulsions to West Timor and the refugee crisis
- Inside the home, outside the law : abuse of child domestic workers in Morocco
- Iran : stifling dissent : the human rights consequences of inter-factional struggle in Iran
- Israel, the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian Authority Territories : justice undermined : balancing security and human rights in the Palestinian justice system
- Israel, the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian Authority Territories : in a dark hour : the use of civilians during IDF arrest operations
- Israel, the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian authority territories : investigation into unlawful use of force in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and northern Israel : October 4 through October 11
- Jenin : IDF military operations
- Jos : a city torn apart
- Justice in motion : the trial phase of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
- Kenya : in the shadow of death : HIV/AIDS and children's rights in Kenya
- Kenya, double standards : women's property rights violations in Kenya
- Leadership failure : firsthand accounts of torture of Iraqi detainees by the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division
- Legal limbo : the uncertain fate of detained LTTE suspects in Sri Lanka
- Lonely servitude : child domestic labor in Morocco
- Macedonia : crimes against civilians : abuses by Macedonian forces in Ljuboten, August 10-12, 2001
- Malaysia/Burma : living in limbo : Burmese Rohingyas in Malaysia
- Margins of repression : state limits on nongovernmental organization activism
- Membership
- Military injustice : Mexico's failure to punish army abuses
- Mixed results : US policy and international standards on the rights and interests of victims of crime
- My so-called emancipation : from foster care to homelessness for California youth
- Nigeria : military revenge in Benue : a population under attack
- Nipped in the bud : the suppression of the Chinese democracy movement
- No equal justice : the Prison Litigation Reform Act in the United States
- No law, no justice, no state for victims : the culture of impunity in post-conflict Nepal
- No one to intervene : gaps in civilian protection in Southern Sudan
- No tally of the anguish : accountability in maternal health care in India
- Not the way forward : the UK's dangerous reliance on diplomatic assurances
- Not yet a workers' paradise : Vietnam's suppression of the independent workers' movement
- Observing the rules of war?
- Off the streets : arbitrary detention and other abuses against sex workers in Cambodia
- Old behind bars : the aging prison population in the United States
- Open secret : illegal detention and torture by the Joint Anti-terrorism Task Force in Uganda
- Our hands are tied : erosion of the rule of law in Zimbabwe
- Over their dead bodies : denial of access to emergency obstetric care and therapeutic abortion in Nicaragua
- Playing with fire : weapons proliferation, political violence, and human rights in Kenya
- Policing morality : abuses in the application of Sharia in Aceh, Indonesia
- Precisely wrong : Gaza civilians killed by Israeli drone-launched missiles
- Prison bound : the denial of juvenile justice in Pakistan
- Probable cause : evidence implicating Fujimori
- Promoting impunity : the Israeli military's failure to investigate wrongdoing
- Pursuit of power : political violence and repression in Burundi
- Reading between the "red lines" : the repression of academic freedom in Egyptian universities
- Reform or repression? : post-coup abuses in Pakistan
- Reluctant partner : the Argentine government's failure to back trials of human rights violators
- Repression of Montagnards : conflicts over land and religion in Vietnam's central highlands
- Returns at any cost : Spain's push to repatriate unaccompanied children in the absence of safeguards
- Rights at risk : state response to HIV in Mississippi
- Rights out of reach : obstacles to health, justice, and protection for displaced victims of gender-based violence in Colombia
- Ripe with abuse : human rights conditions in South Africa's fruit and wine industries
- Rockets from Gaza : harm to civilians from Palestinian armed groups' rocket attacks
- Russia/Chechnya : "No happiness remains" : civilian killings, pillage, and rape in Alkhan-Yurt, Chechnya
- Russia/Chechnya : February 5 : a day of slaughter in Novye Aldi
- Russia/Chechnya : burying the evidence : the botched investigation into a mass grave in Chechnya
- Russia/Chechnya : swept under : torture, forced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings during sweep operations in Chechnya
- Russia/Chechnya : the "dirty war" in Chechnya : forced disppearances, torture, and summary executions
- Rwanda, lasting wounds : consequences of genocide and war on Rwanda's children
- Rwanda: : the search for security and human rights abuses
- Saudi Arabia : bad dreams : exploitation and abuse of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia
- Second class : discrimination against Palestinian Arab children in Israel's schools
- Second class citizens : discrimination against Roma, Jews, and other national minorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Sentenced to stigma : segregation of HIV-positive prisoners in Alabama and South Carolina
- Service for life : state repression and indefinite conscription in Eritrea
- Sex workers at risk : condoms as evidence of prostitution in four US cities
- Slow reform : protection of migrant domestic workers in Asia and the Middle East
- Somsanga's secrets : arbitrary detention, physical abuse, and suicide inside a Lao drug detention center
- South Africa : a question of principle : arms trade and human rights
- Spain : the other face of the Canary Islands : rights violations against migrants and asylum seekers
- Spain and Morocco : nowhere to turn : state abuses of unaccompanied migrant children by Spain and Morocco
- Stateless again : Palestinian-origin Jordanians deprived of their nationality
- Tanzania : "the bullets were raining" : the January 2001 attack on peaceful demonstrators in Zanzibar
- Testing democracy : political violence in Nigeria
- The "Sixth Division" : military-paramilitary ties and U.S. policy in Colombia
- The "ten-dollar talib" and women's rights : Afghan women and the risks of reintegration and reconciliation
- The Islamic Republic at 31 : post-election abuses show serious human rights crisis
- The Ismailis of Najran : second-class Saudi citizens
- The administration of justice in Tunisia : torture, trumped-up charges and a tainted trial
- The answer is no : too little compassionate release in US federal prisons
- The costs of international advocacy : China's interference in United Nations Human Rights mechanisms
- The curse of gold : Democratic Republic of Congo
- The last holdouts : ending the juvenile death penalty in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen
- The price of freedom : bail and pretrial detention of low income nonfelony defendants in New York City
- The rehab archipelago : forced labor and other abuses in drug detention centers in Southern Vietnam
- The ties that bind : Colombia and military-paramilitary links
- The way forward : ending human rights abuses and repression across Sudan
- To protect the people : the government-sponsored "self-defense" program in Burundi
- Together, apart : organizing around sexual orientation and gender identity worldwide
- Togo, borderline slavery : child trafficking in Togo
- Torture redux : the revival of physical coercion during interrogations in Bahrain
- Tough, fair, and practical : a human rights framework for immigration reform in the United States
- Toxic justice : human rights, justice and toxic waste in Cambodia
- Trail of death : LRA atrocities in Northeastern Congo
- Turkey : displaced and disregarded : Turkey's failing village return program
- Turkey : human rights and the European Union accession partnership
- Turkey : small group isolation in Turkish prisons : an avoidable disaster
- Unaccountable : addressing reproductive health care gaps
- Unbearable pain : India's obligation to ensure palliative care
- Uncontrolled pain : Ukraine's obligation to ensure evidence-based palliative care
- Under cover of war : Hamas political violence in Gaza
- Unequal protection : the state response to violent crime on South African farms
- Unfair advantage : workers' freedom of association in the United States under international human rights standards
- Uniform impunity : Mexico's misuse of military justice to prosecute abuses in counternarcotics and public security operations