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![Satellite image of Syrian asylum seeker encampment, Rukban, Jordan. Image taken on morning of December 5, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-wr-jordan.jpg?itok=QNgwx6CU)
January 27, 2016
Iraq: Civilians Pay Price of Conflict
Impunity, Skewed Justice for Gross Violations
![© 2014 Human Rights Watch Militias looted and set on fire homes and local businesses in the village of Yengija, Iraq, in late September 2014.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-wr-iraq.jpg?itok=fNYLV0Ei)
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January 27, 2016
Azerbaijan: Unprecedented Government Crackdown
Need International Pressure to Free Rights Defenders
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January 27, 2016
Bahrain: Torture Allegations Expose Sham Reforms
Prosecutions, Unfair Trials for Exercising Free Speech
![Demonstrators in Manama, Bahrain’s capital, hold placards of torture victims during a sit-in next to the United Nations building organized by the political opposition to mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on June 26, 2014. © 201](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-wr-bahrain_0.jpg?itok=Kj5s24Wg)
January 27, 2016
Egypt: Security Operations Inflame Rights Crisis
Mounting Torture and Disappearances
![The Egyptian military destroys a building in Rafah, on the border with the Gaza Strip, during forced evictions between October 20-31, 2014.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-egypt-mena-wr-photograph.jpg?itok=uds_bwzU)
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January 27, 2016
Lebanon: Inaction on Rights Abuses
Restrictions on Refugees; Security Force Impunity
![Activists hold placards during a protest demanding civil marriage in Lebanon, February 2013. There is currently no Lebanese civil personal status law. © 2013 Reuters/Jamal Saidi](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-wr-lebanon.jpg?itok=sPwX9aup)
January 27, 2016
Central Asia: Backsliding on Rights
Activists, Groups Targeted, Persecuted by Authorities
January 26, 2016
Dispatches: Indonesia’s Island of Intolerance
![Soldiers walk past a burnt mosque owned by followers of the minority Islamic sect, Ahmadiyah, in Ciampea, a village in Indonesia's West Java province October 2, 2010.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rtxsxid_layout_comp.jpg?itok=xZBcrtVr)
January 26, 2016
Dispatches: US: Restricting Solitary Confinement
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January 26, 2016
Dispatches: US: Restricting Solitary Confinement
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January 26, 2016
Germany’s OSCE Challenge
January 26, 2016
Dispatches: Zika Warnings Versus Realities Women Face
![A woman walks away from her apartment as health workers fumigates the Altos del Cerro neighborhood as part of preventive measures against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases in Soyapango, El Salvador January 21, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rtx23g7b_layout_comp.jpg?itok=rvo6poj6)