![Ziad Itani, a Lebanese actor, who was exonerated of spying for Israel, is carried after he was released by Lebanese authorities. Itani has accused security officials of torturing him and has called on authorities to investigate.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201903mena_lebanon_ziad.jpg?itok=TsfNh81j)
![Ziad Itani, a Lebanese actor, who was exonerated of spying for Israel, is carried after he was released by Lebanese authorities. Itani has accused security officials of torturing him and has called on authorities to investigate.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201903mena_lebanon_ziad.jpg?itok=TsfNh81j)
March 22, 2019
DR Congo: Investigate Ex-Intelligence Officials
Dismissed Agency Heads Should Face Justice
![Kalev Mutond, Director of the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, sits to the right of First Lady Marie Olive Lembe and President Joseph Kabila during the country’s independence anniversary celebration in Kindu, capital](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-12-drc-congo-africa-kalev-mutond.jpg?itok=2xXPp5Hw)
March 21, 2019
Amid Revolution, Algeria is Unstable – And Deep, Real Reforms are the Only Way Forward
![Protesters march in a cloud of tear gas fired by riot police as they denounce President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term, March 1, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201903mena_algeria_protestors.jpg?itok=LAQPDTu4)
March 21, 2019
China: Government Threats to Academic Freedom Abroad
New 12-Point Code of Conduct to Help Educational Institutions Respond
![Then Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping makes a speech at the opening of Australia's first Chinese Medicine Confucius Institute, at the RMIT University in Melbourne on June 20, 2010.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201803asia_china_confucius_institute.jpg?itok=8bO9cCgz)
March 21, 2019
Racing to Repression in Bahrain
Formula 1 Should Urge Bahrain To Free Activist Najah Yusuf
![201903sports_formulaone_racing_2](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201903sports_formulaone_racing_2.jpg?itok=vs6lvEKk)
March 21, 2019
UK Schools Should Do Right by LGBT Students
Protests Against LGBT Curriculum Force Suspension of Inclusive Programs
![201712lgbt_flag_protest_generic2](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201712lgbt_flag_protest_generic.jpg?itok=XQEgV-dX)
March 21, 2019
A Missed Opportunity to Protect Muslims in China
![A woman tends to her child near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region, November 4, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201903asia_china_xinjiang_child_mother.jpg?itok=YHd601pv)
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March 21, 2019
Saudi Arabia: Abusive Charges Against Women Activists
‘Criminal’ Contacts with Journalists, Diplomats, Rights Groups
![(Left to right) Prominent women's rights activists Loujain al-Hathloul, Eman al-Nafjan, and Aziza al-Youssef were all detained in May 2018, seemingly in retaliation for their peaceful activities. Al-Hathloul remains in detention.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201806saudi_drive_activists.jpg?itok=X6SHI1md)
March 21, 2019
Myanmar: Women, Girls Trafficked as ‘Brides’ to China
Government Inaction, Conflict, China’s ‘Gender Gap’ Fuel Sexual Slavery
![A young woman who was trafficked at age 17 by a friend’s mother who promised her a well-paid child care job and then sold her to a family in China as a “bride.” Once purchased, she was confined and subjected to sexual slavery, but managed to escape after](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201903wrd_myanmar_main.jpg?itok=eCsd_XT9)
March 21, 2019
Interview: Why ‘Brides’ From Myanmar Are Trafficked to China
Kachin Women, Girls Displaced by Conflict Face Sexual Slavery
![“Because of war, we are afraid to stay in our village. So, we moved to an IDP [internally displaced person] camp…The Myanmar army came to attack our village using massive arms…I am the eldest one in my family, and my family has financial problems.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201903wrd_myanmar_photo4_0.jpg?itok=0BHZSAZM)
March 20, 2019
Cambodia: Investigate Land Activist’s ‘Disappearance’
Preah Vihear Authorities Should Urgently Produce Sum Moeun
![Image of Sum Moeun (left) and Moeun Mean (right).](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201903asia_cambodia_moeun.jpg?itok=hebAFHxb)
March 20, 2019
China Marks Tibetan Anniversary with Military Parade
Anti-Dalai Lama Rhetoric Features at National Congress
![Paramilitary policemen march in formation in front of the Potala Palace during a parade around the March 10 anniversary of the failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule, March 10, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/army_potala.jpg?itok=AqimHE28)