![Composite showing US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (L) speaking on the campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 29, 2016, and US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (R) speaking at a campaign rally in](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-08-us-presidential-election-clinton-trump_0.jpg?itok=37SQmbWh)
![Composite showing US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (L) speaking on the campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 29, 2016, and US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (R) speaking at a campaign rally in](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-08-us-presidential-election-clinton-trump_0.jpg?itok=37SQmbWh)
August 11, 2016
Syria: Government Airstrikes Closing Down Hospitals
UN Should Build Case to Prosecute
![Men and civil defence members look for survivors after an airstrike on a hospital in the town of Meles, western Idlib city in opposition armed forces-held Idlib province, Syria on August 6, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rt_1.jpg?itok=MDaHivCI)
August 10, 2016
Indonesia: ‘LGBT Crisis’ Exposed Official Bias
Government Drove Discriminatory Campaign
![A picture of an anti-LGBT demonstration.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/screen_shot_2016-08-09_at_11.04.42_am.png?itok=-hOVjnP_)
August 10, 2016
Leaked Nauru Files Show Horrors of Australia’s Refugee Detention System
Canberra Should Close Operations on Nauru
![Nauru kids in detention](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-08-nauru-australia-asia-refugees-children.jpg?itok=xxZvfUZN)
August 10, 2016
Email Hack Leads to Threats Against Journalists in Ukraine
Journalists Covering the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine Targeted
![Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko addresses the parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, May 12, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-08-ukraine-eca-poroshenko.jpg?itok=rGICRRzU)
August 10, 2016
Angola: Military Fatally Shoots Boy at Protest
Investigate, Punish Soldiers for Child’s Death
![Some of the more than 600 houses demolished by the government in the Zango II area of Luanda, Angola since July 31, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/photo_1-sized.jpg?itok=4Z6qTlGw)
August 9, 2016
Thailand: New Charter Enshrines Military Rule
Referendum Passes Amid Junta Repression of Constitution’s Critics
![Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha casts his ballot during the constitutional referendum vote in Bangkok, Thailand on August 7, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-8-thailand-asia-prayut.jpg?itok=FacUsLf0)
August 9, 2016
Philippines: A Rights Agenda for President Duterte
Extrajudicial Killings, Accountability, and Health Care Are Key Issues
![Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during his first State of the Nation Address at the Philippine Congress in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines July 25, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/duterte_2.jpg?itok=erKQGcBp)
August 9, 2016
Letter from HRW to President Rodrigo Duterte
Re: Human Rights Concerns in the Philippines
![Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during his first State of the Nation Address at the Philippine Congress in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines July 25, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/duterte_2.jpg?itok=erKQGcBp)
August 9, 2016
DR Congo: Human Rights Watch Researcher Barred
Work Permit Denial Reflects Curbs on Free Speech, Rights Monitoring
![Ida Sawyer, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media/images/photographs/Ida_Sawyer_print.jpg?itok=4QNnh4F1)
August 9, 2016
Armenia Sacks Yerevan Police Chief
Authorities Act After Protestors Are Violently Attacked By Police
![2016-8-eca-armenia-arrest](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/download_1.jpg?itok=TuZmAMeM)
August 9, 2016
The Dutch Postcode Lottery & Human Rights Watch
![The Dutch Postcode Lottery’s Managing Director Imme Rog with Human Rights Watch’s Netherlands Associate Director Tammy Parrish and deputy executive director for external relations Carroll Bogert.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/human_rigts_watch_ir.jpg?itok=whMp1E1W)
![Shadows of an Iranian policeman and a noose are seen on the ground before an execution in Pakdasht, south of Tehran, March 2005.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-08-iran-mena-execution-death-penalty.jpg?itok=Oj0WYNrI)
August 9, 2016
Dispatches: Protecting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Around the World, Indigenous Peoples Suffer Violence, Discrimination, and Exclusion
![2015-hhr-Kenya-turkana-thumbnail](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/turkana_thumbnail.jpg?itok=BuAjLd3a)