April 21, 2016
Bangladesh: Garment Workers’ Union Rights Bleak
Ease Rigid Union Laws, Punish Union-Busting
![Fatema holds a picture of her son Nurul Karim, one year after both he and her daughter Arifa died in the April 24, 2013 Rana Plaza collapse.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/fatema.jpeg?itok=aCkrBTjx)
April 21, 2016
Iran: Imprisoned Physicist’s Cancer Care in Jeopardy
Lack of Adequate Treatment Increases Political Prisoners’ Suffering
April 21, 2016
HRW and TJCG Letter to President Ghani
Re: Afghanistan’s Cooperation with the International Criminal Court
April 21, 2016
Afghanistan: Put Words Into Action on Justice
Cooperate With International Criminal Court Inquiry
![President Ashraf Ghani attends Afghan Independence Day celebrations in Kabul on August 19, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/ghani3.jpeg?itok=UmYXgIOH)
![Quarry in Beit Fajar stands empty after soldiers shut it down on March 21.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/silent_quarry.jpg?itok=oanEMimt)
April 20, 2016
Turkey: Open Border to Displaced Syrians Shelled by Government
No Escape for Thousands Fleeing Attacks on Border Camps
![Khirmash displaced persons camp in Syria on Turkey’s border, sheltering about 2,000 people as of mid-April 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016_syria_idp_camp_shelling.jpg?itok=woKzDhWR)
April 20, 2016
Thailand: Ex-Minister Detained for Rejecting Draft Charter
End Military Repression Before August 7 Referendum on Constitution
![Former minister Watana Muangsook, who was detained on April 18, 2016 for opposing the junta-sponsored draft constitution.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/12963939_462779587251610_631346089620675620_n.jpg?itok=JjnRAPK4)
April 20, 2016
Dispatches: Will France’s State of Emergency Ever End?
![Members of special French RAID forces, French riot police (CRS), soldiers and forensic experts are seen at a raid zone in Saint-Denis, near Paris, France, in this November 18, 2015 file photo.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-04-france-eca-emergency.jpg?itok=FyR-Td9G)
April 20, 2016
China’s “Anti-Terrorism” Alliance Puts Afghan Rights at Risk
China has “anti-terrorism” plans for Afghanistan. And they don’t bode well for human rights.
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April 20, 2016
We pay Mexico to catch refugees. Kids suffer.
April 19, 2016
Statement to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Committee on Article 19
The Right to Live Independently and Be Included in the Community