July 12, 2016
July 12, 2016
Video testimony at European Parliament hearing on sports and human rights
Video testimony for EP Subcommittee on Human Rights hearing
July 12, 2016
Dispatches: Merkel Should Make First-Ever Chancellor Visit to Kyrgyzstan Count
German Leader Should Call for Release of Activist Askarov
![Kyrgyzstan's President Almazbek Atambayev (L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel address a news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, April 1, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-07-kyrgyzstan-eca-merkel-germany-atambayev.jpg?itok=QVMNnLjL)
July 12, 2016
Dispatches: Philippine Officials Shrug at Surge in Drug Killings
Police Admit Dozens Killed Since New President Took Office
![Members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) investigation unit check the body of one of the five suspected drug pushers killed in a police operation in Quiapo city, metro Manila, Philippines July 3, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-07-philippines-asia-drug-murders-police.jpg?itok=vGaXSKLY)
July 12, 2016
Russia: ‘Big Brother’ Law Harms Security, Rights
Repeal Rushed Counterterrorism Legislation
![State Duma, the lower house of parliament, in session in Moscow, Russia on April 19, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/foreign_agents_26052016.jpg?itok=lHuvDFo8)
July 12, 2016
Ban Forced Anal Exams Around World
Abusive “Tests” for Homosexual Conduct Violate Rights
![Poster by Shams, a Tunisian activist group, condemning the use of forced anal exams.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/shams_poster_anal_exams.jpg?itok=Q4W1CwsN)
July 11, 2016
Dispatches: Celebrating Malaysia’s Champions of Worker Rights
Tenaganita Still Fighting for Women Workers’ Rights, 25 Years On
![Irene Fernandez speaks at the presentation of the winners of the Right Livelihood Awards in Stockholm, Sweden on December 7, 2005.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-07-malaysia-tenaganita-fernandez.jpg?itok=zYN_nKYe)
July 11, 2016
Dispatches: Dozens of Cubans Expelled from Ecuador
Asylum seekers were among those judges ruled to have deported
![Cubanos detenidos en el calabozo de la unidad judicial de delitos flagrantes de Quito, esperando a ser deportados o liberados luego de audiencias de deportación, 9 de julio de 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-07-ecuador-americas-cubans-detained-migrants.jpg?itok=slrTvxJB)
July 11, 2016
Aung San Suu Kyi Must Focus on Ending Burma’s Civil War
The country’s democratic transformation will mean little unless it can bring peace to long-suffering ethnic minorities.
July 11, 2016
Correa’s Clamp on the Media
![El presidente de Ecuador, Rafael Correa, durante una rueda de prensa en Quito, Ecuador, el miércoles 8 de junio de 2016. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/ap_16160707764261_-_sized.jpg?itok=9NFQvlJK)
![2016-6-eca-brexit-flag](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rtx2i0ol_layout_comp.jpg?itok=MYpA1JNC)
July 11, 2016
Saudi Coalition Airstrikes Target Civilian Factories in Yemen
Unlawful Attacks Harm Economy, Show Need for Victim Compensation
![2016_EME_Yemen_BusinessBombings_1](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/yemen_cover.jpg?itok=_Uc4iwzN)