![Tunisian protesters stand outside a military court in Tunis as they demonstrate in support of blogger Yassine Ayari during his appeal hearing on March 3, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/tunisia_2016_11_30.jpg?itok=tSNxCaes)
![Tunisian protesters stand outside a military court in Tunis as they demonstrate in support of blogger Yassine Ayari during his appeal hearing on March 3, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/tunisia_2016_11_30.jpg?itok=tSNxCaes)
November 30, 2016
Angola: New Media Law Threatens Free Speech
President Should Return Measure to Parliament for Revision
![Angola's President José Eduardo dos Santos gives an interview to the media](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/angola_dos_santos.jpg?itok=JQqJns2E)
November 30, 2016
Yemen: Baha’i Man Arbitrarily Held for Months
End Persecution of Religious Minority
![Members of the Baha’i faith demonstrate outside of a state security court in Sanaa, Yemen, April 2016](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rtsdcpo_layout_comp.jpg?itok=zbqclUek)
November 30, 2016
Statement on Ukraine, Mine Ban Treaty Fifteenth Meeting of States Parties
Delivered by Steve Goose, Director
November 30, 2016
Statement on New Use of Antipersonnel Mines, Mine Ban Treaty Fifteenth Meeting of States Parties
Delivered by Steve Goose, Director
November 29, 2016
Afghanistan’s Taliban Asserts Infrastructure Protection Role
Insurgents Place ‘Safeguarding National Projects’ Over Protecting Civilians
![Members of the Taliban stand at the site of the execution of three men in Ghazni Province April 18, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-11-afghanistan-asia-taliban.jpg?itok=sGGc4a4R)
November 29, 2016
Democracy and Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Testimony of Ida Sawyer at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission
![The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the United States Congress held a hearing about the deteriorating situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo on November 29, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/tom_lantos_human_rights_commission.png?itok=X1Q3J_dd)
November 29, 2016
Philippine Police Linked to Bloody ‘War on Drugs’ Get US Training
Donors Should Suspend Aid to Abusive Security Forces
![Members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) patrol along a main street of metro Manila in the Philippines May 12, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-11-philippines-asia-police-pnp.jpg?itok=MBmxpl-j)
November 29, 2016
Mali: ‘Red Berets’ Trial Marks Progress in Tackling Impunity
Many More Victims of 2012-13 Abuses Await Justice
![Former Mali coup leader General Amadou Haya Sanogo in Kati, Mali, April 9, 2012.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/mali_sanogo.jpg?itok=o9zW3CRY)
November 29, 2016
Indonesian Militant Islamists, Police Raid Gay Gathering
Latest Act of Government Complicity in Anti-LGBT Discrimination
![People drive a motorcycle past a banner put up by the hardline Islamic Defenders Front calling for gay people to leave the Cigondewah Kaler area in Bandung, Indonesia West Java province, January 27, 2016 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. The banner read](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-11-indonesia-asia-lgbt.jpg?itok=c6XO8KS7)
November 29, 2016
Harsh Winter Ahead in Eastern Ukraine
Security officials shut down aid group and kick out journalists
![A woman walks out of a residential building that was damaged during battles between Ukrainian armed forces and Russian-backed separatists, in Donetsk, Ukraine November 25, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-11-eastern-ukraine-donetsk-eca-damage.jpg?itok=LJRmO6yU)
![A view of the Capitol Building in Washington October 15, 2013.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/01/201609us_capitol_building.jpg?h=b82b5380&itok=YsP16zMQ)
November 29, 2016
Take on hate crime
November 29, 2016
Haiti: Stateless People Trapped in Poverty
Victims of Dominican Republic’s Arbitrary Deportations
![A pregnant woman rests on the floor while attending a Sunday mass on the outskirts of Anse-a-Pitres, Haiti](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/wrd_haiti_presser_photo_.jpg?itok=SQF3RLZw)
November 29, 2016
Iraq: Airstrike Hits Clinic, 8 Civilians Died
ISIS Placing Fighters in Medical Facilities
![Smoke from U.S.-led coalition airstrikes against ISIS in a village east of Mosul, Iraq, May 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rtx2eob8_layout_comp.jpg?itok=Zw_TkNXQ)