![Over 10,000 people gathered in the streets around Bangkok's Democracy Monument on August 16, 2020 calling for reform in the Thai government.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008asia_thailand_ford.jpg?h=f569837a&itok=8GgcdEGf)
![Over 10,000 people gathered in the streets around Bangkok's Democracy Monument on August 16, 2020 calling for reform in the Thai government.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008asia_thailand_ford.jpg?h=f569837a&itok=8GgcdEGf)
Mali: Transition Authorities Should Promote Justice
Respect Judicial Independence, Address Accountability for Atrocities
![Leaders of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, including its leader Col. Assimi Goita, center, and spokesman Ismael Wague, left, and group member Malick Diaw, center-left, with a ECOWAS delegation, Aug. 22, 2020. © 2020 AP](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008_Mali_coupmasks.jpg?h=1ab40730&itok=ML-_Nm9Q)
Open letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding the situation in Belarus
Civil society organizations call to convene a Special Session to address human rights violations committed in the leadup, during and after the August 2020 Presidential elections
![Police officers detain a protester in Minsk, Belarus, on July 14, 2020 during a protest rally against a decision to bar a number of opposition candidates from running in the presidential elections on August 9.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/07/202007eca_belarus_cops.jpg?h=6e3355e3&itok=kq5sWIn8)
Joint Statement: Draft Law on Public Order Violates Women’s Rights
Discard Draft, Stop Blaming Survivors of Violence
![In this March 20, 2020, photo, garment factory workers wear face masks as they walk out at the end of their work shift near Phnom Penh, Cambodia.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/05/202005asia_cambodia_letter_0.jpg?h=9864219f&itok=AroS7nPl)
What China’s Foreign Minister Should Expect in Europe
Beijing’s Growing Repression Needs a Global Response
![Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during the Special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers' meeting on the Novel Coronavirus in Vientiane, Laos, February 20, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008asia_china_wangyi.jpg?h=116367e6&itok=cLPPdrpA)
Jordan: Arrests, Forced Dispersal at Teacher Protests
Teachers’ Syndicate Board Released; Others Still Held
![Jordanian police block a road in front of protestors in Irbid, north of Jordan on August 1, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008mena_jordan_protest_1.jpg?h=6da10873&itok=WHZHnIZ4)
German Economics Ministry Blocks Effective Supply Chains Law
Companies’ Respect for Rights at Particular Risk During Covid-19
![Workers sew clothes in a garments factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 25, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008asia_bangladesh_business_garment.jpg?h=e5aec6c8&itok=2YeUYoQ1)
Brazil: Amazon Fires Affect Health of Thousands
Bolsonaro Government Fuels Deforestation, Flouts Climate Commitments
![The sun rises over a city skyline covered in smoke](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2020/08/202008americas_brazil_amazon_main.jpg?h=94b28deb&itok=NGkOSE3K)
Covid-19 Spreads in Indonesia’s Overcrowded Prisons
Authorities Should Seek Releases, Alternatives for At-Risk Detainees
![An Indonesian Red Cross worker wearing a protective suit sprays disinfectant at a prison in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, March 23, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202003asia_indonesia_prison_coronavirus.jpg?itok=c8g3l0Yw)
![Schoolchildren attend class at a school in Norton, west of the capital Harare, Zimbabwe, September 10, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2020/202003africa_zimbabwe_education_school.jpg?itok=x55xkt3a)
Forty-Nine Migrant Children Moved to Safety in France
Over a Thousand Still Stranded in Hellish Conditions on Greek Islands
![Two boys walk in a makeshift camp next to the Moria camp for refugees and migrants on the island of Lesbos, Greece, September 17, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201912eca_grece_wr.jpg?itok=XOCwxPBy)
Uzbekistan: Drop Dubious Case Against Journalist
Kyrgyz Officials Unlawfully Return Bobomurod Abdullaev
![Bobomurod Abdullaev, May 7, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201805eca_uzbekistan_abdullaevreleased.jpg?itok=kObPnuOy)
Singapore: Quash Prominent Activist’s Conviction
Jailing of Jolovan Wham Violates Right to Peaceful Assembly