Turkey: Emergency Decrees Facilitate Torture
Reinstate Safeguards to Curb Abuse by Police
![The Istanbul Security Directorate in Vatan Street where some of the cases of police torture and ill-treatment documented by Human Rights Watch took place. © 2016 Human Rights Watch](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-10-eca-turkey-main.jpg?itok=MZFu1dSN)
UN: Violators Undermine Human Rights Council
Russia, Saudi Arabia Should Not Sit on Top Rights Body
![HRC headquarters](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/rtr2j8w3_layout_comp.jpg?itok=MlcpF9Ly)
Venezuela: Government Assails Critics as Crisis Deepens
Urgent Measures Needed to Address Shortages of Medicine, Food
![Leidy Cordova, 37, with four of her five children at their home in Cumana, Venezuela, June 16, 2016. Their broken refrigerator held the only food in the house: a bag of corn flour and a bottle of vinegar.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-10-americas-venezuela-main_sp.jpg?itok=O7qcXhzJ)
South Africa: ICC Move Betrays Victims
Members Should Reaffirm Support for International Court
![The Permanent Premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-ij-icc-building-logo.jpg?itok=62spWQZl)
Iraq: Investigate Mosque Strike That Killed Civilians
13 Dead in Suspected Air Strike
![Civilians return to their village after it was retaken by anti-ISIS forces, south of Mosul, Iraq, October 21, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/8_1.jpg?itok=_xlxmi_9)
Iraq: ISIS Endangering Civilians in Mosul and Hawija
Attacking Forces Should Minimize Harm to Population
![Civilians return to their village after it was retaken by anti-ISIS forces, south of Mosul, Iraq, October 21, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/7_2.jpg?itok=OTYQk_iP)
South Africa: Continent Wide Outcry at ICC Withdrawal
Victims’ Advocates Urge Reconsideration, Support for Court
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Honduras: Investigate Killings of Land Rights Leaders
Regional Body had Ordered Protection for Peasant Leaders
![Indigenous people hold posters with a photograph of slain environmental rights activist Berta Caceres while sitting in front of riot policemen during a protest to demand justice in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on March 17, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016_10_25_honduras_presser_photo_final.jpg?itok=mKdPj9JA)
Nairobi: Celebrating Efforts to Spark Change
Film Festival to Address Migration, Radicalization, Women in Leadership
![Women holding Panther flags. Photo courtesy of Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/ffnbophoto.jpg?itok=7YNJZ6Jb)
France/United Kingdom: Protect Children Before Calais Closes
Secure Housing, Care, Guardianship, Family Reunification
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Iraq/KRG: Displaced People Can’t Move Freely
Access to Health Care, Family, Work Unlawfully Restricted
![A man sits on a chair at a camp for internally displaced persons on the outskirts of Kirkuk, December 17, 2014. © 2014 Reuters](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rtr4ietl.jpg?itok=oIGCKe7O)
Burma: Aid Blocked to Rakhine State
Humanitarian Groups, Journalists, and Rights Monitors Need Access
![A woman who fled from recent violence in Maungdaw feeds her daughter at a monastery used as a temporary internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Sittwe, Burma on October 15, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-10-burma-asia-maungdaw.jpg?itok=oR_Q1QdI)
Nigeria: Harsh Law’s Severe Impact on LGBT Community
Encourages Widespread Extortion, Violence
![A gay man in Bariga, a neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, who said he hides his identity from his friends and family.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/nigeria_-_presser_photo.jpg?itok=WlTpgSz_)