![MENA Palestine Free Speech 2](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/image3.jpg?itok=dteutEYE)
![MENA Palestine Free Speech 2](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/image3.jpg?itok=dteutEYE)
August 29, 2016
Thailand: Break Silence on Day of the ‘Disappeared’
Fulfill Pledge to Criminalize Enforced Disappearance
![Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha speaks during a news conference in Bangkok, Thailand on August 15, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-8-thailand-asia-prayut2.jpg?itok=BoCD5mvC)
August 29, 2016
Turkmenistan is Not Free After All
Germany Should Press Government to Respect Basic Rights, Freedoms
![Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov (L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel speak at a press conference in Berlin, Germany, August 29, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-08-turkmenistan-eca-merkel-berdi2.jpeg?itok=u7hht6vz)
August 29, 2016
Kenya’s 'Disappeared' Deserve Justice
President Should Order Investigations, Not Just Blame Al-Shabab
![Zeinab Bulley Hussein holding the national identity card of her son, Abdi Bare Mohamed. Community members stumbled on Abdi Bare’s dead body 18 kilometers from Mandera, in northeastern Kenya, three weeks after police officers arrested him outside the famil](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/kenya-photo_main.jpg?itok=IHY-zV3L)
August 29, 2016
Double Dealing and Carnage in Pakistan
The recent Quetta bombing underscores the failure that is Pakistan’s anti-terror policy
![People hold a candlelight vigil for those killed in the August 8, 2016 blast in Quetta, Pakistan.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-8-asia-pakistan-vigil.jpg?itok=AjST4BlC)
August 29, 2016
Indonesia Religious Discrimination Harms Education Rights
![A sign on an Ahmadiyah mosque in South Jakarta, Indonesia reads, "This building is sealed due to inappropriate usage." The mosque was closed by government authorities in July 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-1-indonesia-ahmadiyah.jpg?itok=am0iAIXK)
August 28, 2016
Ukraine: New Research Corroborates Secret Detentions
5 Still Held in Unrevealed Site in Kharkiv
![© 2016 Human Rights Watch cover illustration with two men tied up](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/ukraine0716_main_0.jpg?itok=ch_3ELfm)
August 28, 2016
Ten Years of Drug Policy Failure in Brazil
![Makeshift “barracos,” or cubicles, inside Pavilion 7 at Presídio Juiz Antônio Luiz L. de Barros (PJALLB), in Recife.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/2-pejallb_075.jpg?itok=EsXI3wib)
August 27, 2016
An End to France’s Shameful Burkini Ban?
![Protesters demonstrate against France's burkini ban outside the French Embassy in London, August 25, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-france-burkini-ban-islamophobia.jpg?itok=boxQI7Gm)
August 26, 2016
Quote of the Week Twitter Poll
August 26, 2016
The Rights Weekender
![A Muslim woman wears a burkini, a swimsuit that leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, on a beach in Marseille, France, August 17, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-08-france-eca-burkini.jpg?itok=xYnX3Cn1)
August 26, 2016
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
![A Muslim woman wears a burkini, a swimsuit that leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, on a beach in Marseille, France, August 17, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-08-france-eca-burkini.jpg?itok=xYnX3Cn1)
August 26, 2016
Pigs' heads and propaganda: Hungary's war on refugees
August 26, 2016
Crimean Tatar Activist Confined in Psychiatric Hospital
Drop Separatism Charges, Allow Necessary Medical Care
![2016-8-eca-crimea-ilmi-umerov](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-8-eca-crimea-ilmi-umerov.jpg?itok=oQ8rxNqu)