January 5, 2017
January 4, 2017
Trump’s Guantanamo Tweet was Uninformed and Ill-Advised
Keeping Facility Open Threatens US National Security
![A detainee paces around a cell block while being held in Joint Task Force Guantanamo's Camp VI at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba March 22, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2017-01-us-united-states-guantanamo-counter-terrorism.jpg?itok=ZouKrExK)
January 4, 2017
What Happens Off-Camera in Burma?
Video of Police Beating Rohingya Heightens Fears of Wider Abuses
![Screenshot from a video that began appearing on social media on December 31, 2016, apparently showing Burmese police officers in northern Rakhine State beating villagers.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2017-01-burma-asia-rohingya-military.jpg?itok=YzWaCz4P)
January 4, 2017
Stop Recruiting Child Soldiers in Iraq
![Martyr Khairy school in Khanasoor, Sinjar, run by YBŞ/HPG-affiliated staff, implementing the Rojava curriculum in Roman script.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/img_6615.jpg?itok=EWBVHHWe)
![A relative of a prisoner holds a local newspaper, which shows a headline about a deadly prison riot, in front of Anisio Jobim prison in Manaus, Brazil, on January 3, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2017_brazil_prison_presser_photo.jpg?itok=a-TNiBqT)
January 3, 2017
Kurdish Officials Shut Down Group Aiding Yezidis
Closure Comes as Humanitarian Needs in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan Soar
![Displaced people from the minority Yezidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain, near the Syrian border town of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2017-01-iraq-mena-yezidi-sinjar.jpg?itok=j63E1pem)
January 2, 2017
Israel/Palestine: Some Officials Backing ‘Shoot-to-Kill’
Calls for Extrajudicial Killings of Palestinian Suspects Proliferate
![Israeli emergency personnel and security forces work at the scene of what Israeli police said was a stabbing attack by two Palestinians on two Israelis in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit Horon near Jerusalem on January 25, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/3_2_0.jpg?itok=pYBDN9Pb)
December 29, 2016
For Managing Migration, Australia is No Model for Europe
![Australia cartoon](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/australia_cartoon.jpg?itok=rNegxKT9)
December 29, 2016
2016: The year the world stopped caring about refugees
Refugees, rights groups, aid organisations say empathy towards refugees is fading even as deaths in Mediterranean soar.
![Afghan women sit with their children after arriving at a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) registration centre in Kabul, Afghanistan September 27, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-10-afghanistan-asia-refugees-returned-kabul.jpg?itok=1ED50z9g)
December 28, 2016
2016 - The Year in Human Rights Tweets
![Rohingya Muslim children stand in U Shey Kya village outside Maungdaw in Rakhine state.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-burma-rohingya.jpg?itok=m2BzYgzp)
![MENA UAE Jordan Journalist Tayseer al-Najjar](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/image2-cropped_resized.jpg?itok=p84qNYXg)
December 28, 2016
Turkey: Journalists, Writers Face Terrorism, Separatism Charges
Trial Begins for Newspaper Advisory Board, Writers, Editors in Istanbul
December 28, 2016
Theresa May Should Come Clean on UK Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
![A UK-manufactured bomb struck storage hangars in Hodaida on January 6, 2016. The hangars stored school furniture, car parts, dry and canned food. Two of them contained production workshops for zinc sheeting and metal fencing grates.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-07-mena-yemen-web-05.jpg?itok=tLYqbcAn)
December 28, 2016