December 18, 2015
Ethiopia: Lethal Force Against Protesters
Military Deployment, Terrorism Rhetoric Risk Escalating Violence
![Protesters in Oromia region, Ethiopia.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/ethiopia_presser_oromia_protest_1.jpg?itok=b7J499e5)
December 18, 2015
Dispatches: Argentina’s Supreme Court Appointments
December 18, 2015
Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week
![Refugees carrying their children walk towards a dinghy to sail off for the Greek island of Chios from Cesme, Turkey November 4, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/rtx1uouw_layout_comp.jpg?itok=zAoZWewG)
December 18, 2015
Why Germany Can and Should Open an Investigation into US Torture
![CIA torture pic 3](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/cia_torture_pic_3.jpg?itok=NSmO2igZ)
December 18, 2015
Europe Can Solve Its Refugee Crisis, if It Has the Will
![2015-eca-eu-refugees-humanitarian-visa-3](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/2015-eca-eu-refugees-humanitarian-visa-3.jpg?itok=lxEWshaG)
December 18, 2015
Thailand: Worker Charged for Insulting King’s Dog
End Arbitrary Use of Draconian ‘Insulting the Monarchy’ Laws
![Thanakorn Siripaiboon.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/image3.jpg?itok=n7vsyuOv)
December 18, 2015
Working Abroad—and Facing Abuse
![A female employer and her children are accompanied by their domestic worker, back right, as they walk through The Avenues, an indoor luxury shopping center in Kuwait City.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/2015_mena_kuwait_workers.jpg?itok=IFE4Q93o)
December 17, 2015
North Korea: UN Condemns Systemic Rights Abuses
Security Council Should Refer to International Criminal Court
![Screenshot of the UN General Assembly vote on the resolution on North Korea on December 17, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/dprk.png?itok=iNkTJfI0)
December 17, 2015
Dispatches: China’s School Construction Doesn’t Equal Inclusion
![A wheelchair stands outside a classroom in the Beichuan Middle School in China's Sichuan province May 10, 2011.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/rtr2maxk_layout_comp.jpg?itok=RGUqFiln)
December 17, 2015
Dispatches: Jailed Angolan Activists Sent Home, but Saga Continues
![Protesters in London, stand at Piccadilly Circus calling for the release of 15 political prisoners in Angola, October 17, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/angola.jpg?itok=jUrZq-3i)
December 17, 2015