US Bureau of Prisons Policy Change Endangers Transgender Prisoners
Transgender Prisoners Face Alarming Rates of Abuse in Detention
![An illustration depicts a transgender woman housed in a men's immigration detention facility.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/trans_detention2.jpg?itok=nfdKrCk4)
Rise in Militant Attacks on Schools in Pakistan
Recent Violence Shows Grave Risks Pakistani Schoolgirls Face
![School children flee as soldiers conducting an exercise to repel militant attacks detain a mock-militant (R) at the Islamia Collegiate School in Peshawar, Pakistan, February 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/rtx2522m_resizedweb.jpg?itok=hpeELaV-)
Turkey: Government Targeting Academics
Dismissals, Prosecutions Create Campus Climate of Fear
![Turkish riot policemen walk over academic gowns laid down during a protest against the dismissal of academics from universities in the Cebeci campus of Ankara University](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/052018eca_riot_police_turkey.jpg?itok=uSPMKwzT)
Philippines Acts to Combat Violence Against Children
Accountability Needed for Kids’ Deaths in ‘Drug War’
![Mourners watch as Kian delos Santos, a 17-year-old student who was shot during anti-drug operations is buried in Caloocan, Metro Manila, Philippines August 26, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201805asia_philippines_kian.jpg?itok=cYFrQ5M9)
Libya: Battle for City Endangers Civilians
Conflict Parties in Derna Should Abide by Laws of War
![Al-Wihda Hospital staff housing units in Derna, Libya, damaged by airstrikes on February 7, 2016, according to a witness.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/1_1.jpg?itok=GyR3BkG8)
China: Visiting Officials Occupy Homes in Muslim Region
‘Becoming Family’ Campaign Intensifies Repression in Xinjiang
![Chinese officials visit a Muslim family.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201805asia_china_uyghurs.png?itok=njvbWSqX)
Cambodia: Release Ex-Radio Free Asia Journalists
Now Held for Six Months on Politically Motivated Espionage Charges
![Uon Chhin and Yeang Sothearin, former journalists of the Radio Free Asia (RFA), sit inside a police vehicle as they arrive for a bail hearing at the Appeal Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 19, 2018. REUTERS/Samrang Pring](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201805asia_cambodia_rfa.jpg?itok=BW7yUu-p)
Britain Should use Erdogan Visit to Speak out on Human Rights
Call for Release of Turkey’s Unjustly Jailed Journalists, Politicians, Civil Society Activists
![Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meets with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, January 28, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201805europe_uk_turkey_erdogan_may.jpg?itok=y3pFTZt9)
US Mothers’ Battle Cry for Police Accountability
Washington DC Protest Lead by Parents Who Lost Children to Police Violence
![A memorial is pictured at the location where the police shooting of Keith Scott took place, in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S., September 23, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201805us_police_mothersday_protest.jpg?itok=ywu_qHUU)
Philippine Chief Justice Ouster an Assault on Rights, Democracy
Duterte’s Declared ‘Enemy’ Removed for Drug War Criticism
![Ousted Philippine Supreme Court Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno speaks to supporters at a rally outside the Supreme Court building on Taft Avenue, metro Manila, Philippines May 11, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201805asia_philippines_sereno.jpg?itok=Mk1g5oRh)
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
![Photo of an aircraft at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel on July 14, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/final.jpg?itok=zY2Fwsco)
On Mother’s Day, Let’s Not Forget US Moms Locked Away
Incarceration Has Long-Term Consequences for Moms and their Children
![Women in the David L. Moss Correctional Center attend a parenting class, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201805us_criminaljustice_oklahoma_prison.jpg?itok=FKIfr-Z3)