July 15, 2016
July 15, 2016
The Rights Weekender
![Italy xenophobia](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/screen_shot_2016-07-13_at_12.51.38.png?itok=vFn71AF5)
July 15, 2016
Dispatches: El Salvador Court Sends a Message to Proponents of Impunity
Architects of Colombia Accord with FARC Should Take Note
![A man holds a banner that reads "impunity", during a protest outside the Special Military Security Unit base in San Salvador, August 24, 2011.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-07-americas-el_salvador-justice.jpg?itok=8_XsPvAi)
July 15, 2016
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
![Hazrat Hussain, 10, loads bricks onto a truck. Hazrat doesn’t go to school and works alongside his two teenage brothers at a brick kiln outside Kabul.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-07-asia-afghanistan-photo-09.jpg?itok=g-igX7Cb)
July 15, 2016
Massive Expulsion of Cubans from Ecuador
![Detained Cubans in a cell at Quito's court offices building, waiting to be deported or released after deportation hearings, July 9, 2016. © 2016 Juan Pablo Alban](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-07-09-photo-00000136.jpg?itok=_dHPqMUk)
July 15, 2016
France: Despicable Attack in Nice
![Investigators continue to work at the scene near the heavy truck that ran into a crowd at high speed killing scores who were celebrating the Bastille Day July 14 national holiday on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, July 15, 2016](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/picture_france_rpesser.jpg?itok=Wpo56096)
July 15, 2016
Dispatches: Marking A Day for International Justice
Gains made in prosecutions against genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity
![Victims turned victors](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/victimswalkingtocourt.jpeg?itok=xXZg80WD)
July 14, 2016
Dispatches: The US Veterans Who Can’t Return Home
Proposed Bill Gives Deported Immigrant Veterans a Chance for US Visa
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/images/photographs/2013-immigration-principle4.jpg?itok=eyh6_ARB)
July 14, 2016
Dispatches: Greece’s Refugee “Hotspots” Breeding Violence
Overcrowding, Violence in Camps is Contributing to Rising Xenophobia
![2016-5-eca-greece-beds-4](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/beds.jpeg?itok=tVDxl9EE)
July 14, 2016
Kickbacks and Killings: A Brazilian Cop Tells His Story
![The Mangueira favela on January 14, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-07-americas-brazil-photo-04.jpg?itok=Is8Kl9rm)
July 14, 2016
Defending Human Rights in Development
Global Call to Ensure Local Communities’ Role in Bank-Financed Projects
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/images/photographs/Young%20Uzbek%20boy%20picking%20cotton-Sept282011_revised%20%28c%29%202011%20Uzbek-German%20Forum%20for%20Human%20Rights.jpg?itok=BrsmoB_6)
July 14, 2016
Tunisia: Amnesty Bill Would Set Back Transition
Would Replace Better Model for Handling Corruption
![Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration against the economic reconciliation bill at Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rtssf0_layout_comp.jpg?itok=lwoJbgQ4)
July 14, 2016
European Donors Must Target Syrian Schoolchildren
![2016-07-crd-lebanon-syrian child laborers](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/img_7902.jpg?itok=SuwX088G)
July 14, 2016
Afghanistan: Hazardous Work for Children Widespread
Unenforced Law Puts Thousands at Risk of Injury, Death
![Helal, 10, works as a brick maker at a brick kiln outside Kabul. He told Human Rights Watch that the brick mold is heavy and his hands hurt working with wet clay. Helal doesn’t go to school because he has to work.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-07-asia-afghanistan-main.jpg?itok=SZy4MR5T)