![President Abdelaziz Bouteflika looks on during a swearing-in ceremony in Algiers on April 28, 2014.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/algeria_president.jpg?itok=jU6TRLVV)
![President Abdelaziz Bouteflika looks on during a swearing-in ceremony in Algiers on April 28, 2014.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/algeria_president.jpg?itok=jU6TRLVV)
July 1, 2016
Jordan must help, not punish, trapped refugees
July 1, 2016
Jordan: 70,000 Syrians Trapped at Border
Resume Food, Water, Medical Care for Asylum Seekers
![Jordan syrian refugees trapped](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rtx22fg3-sized.jpg?itok=Ubux3IY6)
![Human rights lawyer Willie Kimani was last seen on June 23, 2016. There is credible evidence that Kimani, as well as his client and taxi driver, may be victims of an enforced disappearance.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/willie_kimani.jpg?itok=cgLsvS_6)
June 30, 2016
UN Makes History on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity
Human Rights Body Establishes an Independent Expert
June 30, 2016
Banned from Stadiums for Being a Woman in Iran
![Iran women FIVB](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/rtxsqm1.jpg?itok=RcBkDEDt)
June 30, 2016
Children on the Front Lines, With U.S. Dollars
June 30, 2016
Where Schools Are Already Closed
![Children look through a destroyed classroom window at Yerwa Primary School, Maiduguri, Borno state, damaged by Boko Haram during attacks in 2010 and 2013. The school, established in 1915, was the first primary school in northeast Nigeria. © 2015 Bede Shep](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-04-africa-nigeria-main.jpg?itok=EV9wlU4D)
June 30, 2016
US: Don’t Fund Child Soldiers Abroad
State Department List Adds Iraq, Excludes Afghanistan
![Child soldiers put down their guns in a disarmament and release ceremony in Jonglei state, South Sudan, February 10, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/presser_photo.jpg?itok=HNq86xIp)
June 30, 2016
UN Human Rights Council: High Commissioner’s reports on human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Burma/Myanmar and on Sri Lanka
Statement delivered under Item 2
![Police officers escort humanitarian worker Patrick Khum Jaa Lee during a court hearing in Rangoon on January 22, 2016. He served six months in prison for allegedly posting an image deemed “insulting” to the military.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-06-asia-burma-photo-01.jpg?itok=4kjVZrZE)
June 29, 2016
Dispatches: Angolan Activists Conditionally Free
Book Club Members Who Discussed Democracy Await Appeal
![Book-club activists walk through the streets of Luanda after their provisional release.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/screen_shot_2016-06-29_at_10.20.30_pm.png?itok=baCP-k-G)
June 29, 2016
Redefining Disability
June 29, 2016
Dispatches: Ethiopia Ascends to UN Security Council Despite Dismal Rights Record
Credible Investigation Needed Into Deaths of Protesters
![The UN Security Council votes on a resolution at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on March 2, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/unsc-mar16.jpg?itok=wyQqjdwa)