![Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui listens beside Mario Patron, Director of Human Rights Center Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez (PRODH) during a news conference in Mexico City, Mexico June 19, 2017](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201706americas_mexico_aristegui.jpg?itok=4cEjHLCX)
![Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui listens beside Mario Patron, Director of Human Rights Center Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez (PRODH) during a news conference in Mexico City, Mexico June 19, 2017](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201706americas_mexico_aristegui.jpg?itok=4cEjHLCX)
June 20, 2017
Death of Otto Warmbier Highlights North Korea Rights Abuses
North Korea, a Human Rights ‘Black Hole’ for Citizens and Foreigners
![Otto Frederick Warmbier (C), a University of Virginia student who was detained in North Korea since early January, is taken to North Korea's top court in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released by Kyodo March 16, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201706asia_north_korea_otto_warmbier.jpg?itok=xIJojVXN)
June 20, 2017
Texas Law Invites Discrimination in Child Welfare Services
Law Fails to Prioritize Children’s Rights
![LGBT Rainbow Flag](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rainbow_flag_and_blue_skies.jpg?itok=nj7TjiZb)
June 20, 2017
“Ill-Gotten Goods”: Equatorial Guinea is a Case Study in Self-Dealing
As the Obiang trial opens Monday in Paris, the researcher Sarah Saadoun calls on President Macron to go further in the fight against money laundering
June 20, 2017
US: New York Governor Signs Anti-Child Marriage Law
One of First States to Act; Others Should Follow
![Governer Cuomo](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201706wrd_americas_us_childmarriage.jpg?itok=pasyTclJ)
June 20, 2017
UN Rights Council Should Create Independent Investigation into Kasai Violence
Interactive Dialogue on the Democratic Republic of Congo
![Still from a video posted on the internet on February 17, 2017 showing men in Congolese army uniforms fatally shooting at least 13 alleged militia members.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/screen_shot_2017-02-21_at_9.23.20_am.png?itok=0cfDx7ff)
June 20, 2017
Côte d'Ivoire: UN Rights Body Should Ensure Continued Monitoring
Item 10 Interactive Dialogue with the Independent Expert on Côte d’Ivoire
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June 20, 2017
Libya: Ensure Safe Return of Displaced Tawerghans
Security for Residents, Rehabilitation of Town
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June 19, 2017
Sri Lanka: Minister Threatens Defender of Minority Rights
Investigate, Prosecute Attacks on Muslims, Christians
![201606Asia_SriLanka_Islam](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201606asia_srilanka_islam.jpg?itok=sRNqKcdz)
June 19, 2017
China: Tibet Propaganda Masks Repression
Illustrated Glossary Decodes Surveillance Systems and Abuses
![The Chinese term shehui zhili is normally translated into English as "social governance."](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201706asia_tibet_glossary.jpg?itok=F2BpBkGE)
June 19, 2017
On LGBTI Rights, Malta Learns the Rewards of Progress
![Boris Dittrich, Human Rights Watch LGBT Rights Advocacy Director, with Monsignor Scicluna, Archbishop of Malta, June 9, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201706lgbt_malta_archbishop.jpg?itok=0XGxZD4i)
June 19, 2017
Cancun, the OAS, and Venezuela’s Prosecutor General
![Venezuela's chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega Diaz talks to the media during a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela April 25, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201706americas_venezuela_diaz.jpg?itok=04st6yAV)
![Ashraf Fawaqa and his daughter Sima, 4, stand next to the rubble of their East Jerusalem home on May 15; Israeli authorities demolished the house on May 4 because they lacked a permit.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2017-05-israel-palestine-mena-jerusalem-fawaqa-2.jpg?itok=OJarGEpH)