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August 17, 2018
The US Must Not Turn Its Back On Refugees
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August 16, 2018
Police Killings are Out of Control in Rio de Janeiro
Putting Police Under Army’s Mandate Has Failed to Stem Bloodshed
![Policemen patrol the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro on September 14, 2012.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-07-americas-brazil-main.jpg?itok=n6jDuI4Q)
August 16, 2018
Trail of Broken Promises to Brazil’s Women
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August 16, 2018
A torture scandal makes Russia pay attention
Graphic footage of a prisoner being tortured has gripped the Russian public. But the lawyer who helped expose this torture needs state protection
![Screen shot from leaked footage of how Evgeny Makarov, a prisoner in Yaroslavl Colony No. 1, was brutally tortured in June 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201808eca_russia_ng.jpg?itok=lk8x8Vam)
August 13, 2018
Syria’s ‘Disappeared’ Deserve Truth and Justice
![From top left: Mohamed Nour al-Shemali, Abdul Akram al-Sakka, Mohamad Meqdad, Bassel Khartabil, Khalil Maatouk, and Mohamed Atfah were among many political activists, journalists, humanitarian workers, and lawyers, disappeared by the Syrian government.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201808mena_syria_disappeared.jpg?itok=e3ISr_k7)
August 10, 2018
Agriculture Ministry Should Take Lead on Pesticide Poisoning
![Bernardo, a man in his 30s, was born in a quilombo (Afro-Brazilian) community of around 60, men, women, and children in Minas Gerais State, southeast Brazil. Bernardo told Human Rights Watch that he feels powerless against aerial spraying of pesticides. “](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807sa_brazil_pesticides2.jpg?itok=CsSxiDnd)
August 10, 2018
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
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August 10, 2018
Congress Should Reject Pesticide Bill
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August 10, 2018
Why Are India’s Laws to Protect the Rights and Dignity of the Mentally Ill Not Working?
Residents of Mental Health Institutions Remain Isolated, Neglected, and Invisible
![Girls watch television inside the girls’ wing at Asha Kiran, a government-run residential institution for people with intellectual disabilities and mental health needs in Delhi, in April 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201808asia_india_ashakiran.jpg?itok=UsbGhxC-)
August 10, 2018
"In the Central African Republic, AU Peacekeepers Carried Out an Egregious Crime"
In an op-ed, Human Rights Watch calls on the pan-African organization to release its report on the 2014 killings in Boali
![Twelve skulls discovered in a mass grave in February 2016 near a peacekeeping base in Boali, Central African Republic. The victims are believed to be individuals who were summarily executed by Republic of Congo peacekeepers on March 24, 2014.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/img_0386.jpg?itok=BplTrbq_)
August 10, 2018
“Bright Women Need Not Apply”
Admission Policy at Tokyo Medical University Highlights Discrimination Against Women
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August 8, 2018
Trump’s Health Care Rules a Prescription for Disaster
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