March 16, 2017
US Sends Group Rejecting Rights to UN Women’s Commission
C-Fam Vehemently Opposed to LGBT and Women’s Rights, Equality
![U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks in the U.N. Security Council at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., February 28, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2017-03-us-un-security-council-nikki-haley.jpg?itok=jmvKyV3Q)
![Riot police block a driveway leading to the home of leading opposition politician and Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party presidential candidate Kizza Besigye on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala, February 20, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-03-uganda-africa-crackdown.jpg?itok=9s8NFRoJ)
![Hands of Selina Aktar, a woman in her late 30s with arsenic-related health conditions that first began appearing 20 years ago.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/201603hhr_bangladesharsenic_1.jpg?itok=4T_DvXuC)
![A woman stands in front of a pile of her household property at Chingwizi transit camp, which the government forcibly shut down in August 2014. Hundreds of families lost their property left in the open during their relocation to the camp. March 2014.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/zimbabwe0215_reportcover_front.jpg?itok=Tk_UnAzM)
March 16, 2017
Venezuela’s Human Rights Obligations under Scrutiny in Geneva
Item 6 UPR adoption on Venezuela
![Nurses at a hospital in Barquisimeto discuss which patients will receive medicines and which will have to wait due to severe shortages of medicines at the hospital, August 24, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/5_1.jpg?itok=a7_6tIzP)
![A Kurdish Peshmerga soldier on the outskirts of the Kurdish city of Erbil, Iraq on January 2, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/rtx2x9yq_layout_comp_1.jpg?itok=JGPrxqjN)
March 16, 2017
Social Media Trolls Threaten Activists
How Everyone Can Address Such Threats, Help Protect Activists
![Screengrabs of social media threats sent to activists](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2017-03-social-media-threats-graphic.jpg?itok=FA4PUGTo)
March 16, 2017
Q & A: Safe Zones and the Armed Conflict in Syria
![An internally displaced Syrian woman walks in the Bab Al-Salam refugee camp, near the Syrian-Turkish border, northern Aleppo province, Syria, December 26, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/final_1.jpg?itok=R7CWvfuZ)
![An internally displaced Syrian woman walks in the Bab Al-Salam refugee camp, near the Syrian-Turkish border, northern Aleppo province, Syria, December 26, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/final_1.jpg?itok=R7CWvfuZ)
March 16, 2017
Egypt: Possible Extrajudicial Killings in Sinai
Police May Have Staged Raid to Cover Up Deaths
![Still from a video published by the Egyptian Interior Ministry. The video shows commandos stealthily approaching a building. But military experts said the bright, white light illuminating the commandos during their approach was one indication that the rai](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/1_floodlight.png?itok=sHbeOUd4)
March 16, 2017
Joint Letter: To Permanent Representatives of Member States of the Human Rights Council
Council Cross-regional Civil Society Organizations in Support of United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution to Renew Mandate of Special Rapporteur in Iran
March 15, 2017
US: Trump Strong-Arms Rights Body
UN Human Rights Council an Important, if Flawed, Tool
![HRC headquarters](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/rtr2j8w3_layout_comp.jpg?itok=MlcpF9Ly)