![Roxan Perez joins more than 200 protestors in non-violent direct action in Washington. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/op-ed_photo.jpg?itok=1A7AM3dr)
![Roxan Perez joins more than 200 protestors in non-violent direct action in Washington. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/op-ed_photo.jpg?itok=1A7AM3dr)
June 20, 2016
Dispatches: Students Jailed for Doodling in Burundi
![President Pierre Nkurunziza stands after being sworn in for a third term. Bujumbura, Burundi, August 20, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-06-africa-burundi-nkurunziza.jpg?itok=H9ubj8Z3)
June 20, 2016
Assuring Lithuania’s UN Legacy
![2016-2-eca-ukraine-attacks-schools-1](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/img_2640_0.jpg?itok=fBwjfzCO)
June 20, 2016
EU: Don’t Send Syrians Back to Turkey
Lack of Jobs, School, Health Care Spurs Poverty, Exploitation
![A migrant child stands in a tent on the side of a highway near Edirne, Turkey where hundreds of mostly Syrian migrants have had to wait as Turkish police prevent their bid to cross the border with Greece.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rts1kvy_layout_comp.jpg?itok=9JDPXf9R)
![Nour T., a 16-year-old Syrian girl, at a group home in Gothenburg, Sweden.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/dsc_3430_-_version_2.jpg?itok=bKJ1xPxU)
June 19, 2016
US, Russia: Investigate Deadly New Attacks in Aleppo, Syria
Civilians Killed on Both Sides of the City
![Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, US Secretary of State John Kerry, and UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura attend a news conference in Munich, Germany on February 12, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/syri.jpg?itok=6BYZbmsI)
June 17, 2016
The Rights Weekender
![Mersen Chala holds a photo of his brother Dinka, who was killed by Ethiopian security forces a day earlier, in Yubdo village, Oromia region, about 100 kilometers from Addis Ababa, December 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/photo1.jpg?itok=QHhgcks5)
June 17, 2016
Quote of the Week Twitter Poll
June 17, 2016
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
![People light candles during a vigil in memory of the victims of the gay nightclub mass shooting in Orlando, at St Anne's church in the Soho district of London, June 13, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-06-us-orlando.jpg?itok=GZ8OuRKo)
June 17, 2016
Dispatches: Remembering Jo Cox
The Labour MP was killed on Thursday by a man who shot and stabbed her on a West Yorkshire street
![Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox in Westminster, London.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-06-uk-eca-cox.jpg?itok=EpRU1EHH)
June 17, 2016
Formula One: Red Flag on Rights in Azerbaijan
![A general view shows the Government House of Baku (L) and Marriott Absheron Baku Hotel, Baku, Azerbaijan, June 16, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-06-azerbaijan-eca-baku-f1.jpg?itok=4AoGIn6L)
June 17, 2016
Dispatches: Mom, I’m Alive
Lone Children Who Survived Mediterranean Crossing Need to Call Home
!["Yodit," a 16-year-old girl from Eritrea, talks on the phone to her mother for the first time after her rescue at sea and arrival to Pozzallo hotspot, Sicily, Italy.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-06-italy-eca-pozzallo-crd.jpg?itok=C18F0bYr)
June 17, 2016
China: Drop Cases Against Rights Lawyers
Xia Lin, Zhou Shifeng Face Politically Motivated Prosecutions
![Asia-China-June-6-2016](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/bj_second_intermediate_ppls_court.jpg?itok=_j_5ynGu)