August 11, 2015
August 11, 2015
China: Open letter to States for joint action to address worsening crackdown on human rights defenders and lawyers
To Permanent Representatives of Member States and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council
August 11, 2015
DR Congo: Ethnic Militias Attack Civilians in Katanga
Dozens of ‘Pygmy’ Killed in Camp Following Deadly Raids on Luba
![Several thousand ethnic Batwa, or Pygmy, sought refuge in an abandoned factory building known as Cotanga in Nyunzu, southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, following a nearby attack on a displacement camp by ethnic Luba militia fighters on April 30.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/2015-8-drc-africa-pygmy-cotanga.jpg?itok=WTzAORcR)
August 10, 2015
Nicholas Opiyo, Uganda
2015 Recipient of the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism
![Nicholas Opiyo](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/2015-defenders-nicholas-opiyo.jpeg?itok=LJ6Jlgvz)
August 10, 2015
Nisha Ayub, Malaysia
2015 Recipient of the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism
![Nisha Ayub](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/nisha_ayub_-_900.jpg?itok=vz6weYIS)
August 10, 2015
Khadija Ismayilova, Azerbaijan
2015 Recipient of the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism
![Khadija Ismayilova](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/2015-defenders-khadija-ismayilova.jpg?itok=QmWtn6Vk)
August 10, 2015
Yara Bader, Syria
2015 Recipient of the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism
![Yara Bader](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/2015-defenders-yara-bader.jpeg?itok=IDk97m0G)
August 10, 2015
Rights Activists Honored
Alison Des Forges Award Honorees From Uganda, Syria, Malaysia, Azerbaijan
![2015 Alison Des Forges Award Honorees](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/banner_defenders_2.jpg?itok=X6dpZJJC)
August 10, 2015
Dispatches: Tone Down the Scaremongering Over Migrants
![calais migrants police](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/rtr4bhyi_layout_comp.jpg?itok=8RIDfrVY)
August 10, 2015
Dispatches: Nepal’s Transgender Passport Progress
![nepal lgbt](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/image004_0.jpg?itok=gBz8beTH)
August 7, 2015
Dispatches: ‘We Want to Live Like Humans’
![A makeshift camp at Pedion tou Areos, a park in downtown Athens where hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers, including families with children, are living rough. An estimated 50,000 people arrived on Greece's shores in July alone.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/greece.park_.tent_.jpg?itok=gxP1P0I_)
August 7, 2015
Fellowship Application Checklist
August 7, 2015
Best of Dispatches: Top News Posts This Week
![Jemera Rone: Working in Darfur, Sudan,](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/screen_shot_2015-08-02_at_5.20.42_pm.png?itok=_YUjH_CO)