![A general view of Luanda, Angola, where organizers are planning a demonstration for women’s right to have an abortion on March 18, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/rtr3nrk4_28layout_28comp2929_28129.jpg?itok=neaV6ej4)
![A general view of Luanda, Angola, where organizers are planning a demonstration for women’s right to have an abortion on March 18, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/rtr3nrk4_28layout_28comp2929_28129.jpg?itok=neaV6ej4)
March 17, 2017
UAE: Jordanian Journalist Convicted
3-Year Sentence for ‘Insulting State Symbols’ on Facebook
![MENA UAE Jordan Journalist Tayseer al-Najjar](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/image2-cropped_resized.jpg?itok=p84qNYXg)
![South Sudan #HaltArms](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rtr3f5oa-gradient.jpg?itok=5AK8t8Qc)
![People make a line as they wait for food to be handed out after Hurricane Matthew hit Jeremie, Haiti, October 19, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rtx2pm0x_002.jpg?itok=TDuuLz_B)
March 17, 2017
France: Put Rights at Heart of Presidential Campaign
11 Questions on Human Rights for the Candidates
![Vote French Elections](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/gettyimages-146430794.jpg?itok=Nn-k0ia9)
March 17, 2017
Yemen: Cluster Munitions Wound Children
Brazil Should Stop Producing Banned Weapon, Join Ban Treaty
![Photo of part of the bursting mechanism from an ASTROS cluster munition rocket lies where it reportedly landed at Qahza, Saada governorate on February 22, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/al_oairi_farm_40_copy.jpg?itok=iDPsP3Ps)
March 16, 2017
China: Disclose Details of Terrorism Convictions
Overbroad Counterterrorism Legal Framework Opens Door to Abuses
![Zhou Qiang, president of China’s Supreme People’s Court, gives a speech during the National People’s Congress in Beijing on March 12, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2017-3-china-asia-npc.jpg?itok=F0RWOvR-)
March 16, 2017
Double Blow for Philippine Government’s Abusive Policies
Stern Warnings on ‘Drug War’ Killings and the Death Penalty
![2017_EME_Philippines_drugwar_2](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/ejk_2.jpg?itok=Hhz28veY)
March 16, 2017
Ethiopia Lifts Some State of Emergency Restrictions
Time to End Mass Arbitrary Detentions
![Ethiopian president Mulatu Teshome addresses members of the Ethiopian Parliament and the House of Federation about the declaration of the state of emergency, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, October 10, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2017-03-ethiopia-africa-mulatu-teshome.jpg?itok=MKeyzq8n)
March 16, 2017
What to Make of the Dutch Election Results?
Anti-Rights Rhetoric Goes Mainstream Despite Wilders Defeat
![A man and child cycle past an election poster billboard the day before a general election, in Utrecht, Netherlands, March 14, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2017-03-netherlands-eca-election-posters.jpg?itok=pyDiypBF)
March 16, 2017
A Return to the Failed ‘War on Drugs’ in the US?
Revolving Door of Prison Will Not Solve Problematic Drug Use
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/images/photographs/2009_US_DrugArrest.jpg?itok=ZmtuwWBB)
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)