![Interior Ministry officers guard the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community rally "VIII St.Petersburg Pride" in St. Petersburg, Russia August 12, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201709europe_russia_police_lgbt.jpg?itok=XVR2FEeP)
![Interior Ministry officers guard the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community rally "VIII St.Petersburg Pride" in St. Petersburg, Russia August 12, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201709europe_russia_police_lgbt.jpg?itok=XVR2FEeP)
October 31, 2018
Equatorial Guinea: Prominent Activist Severely Beaten
UN Experts Should Take Up the Case
![201810Africa_Alfredo_Okenve_Speaking](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201810africa_alfredo_okenve_speaking_final.jpg?itok=I82cV0VS)
October 31, 2018
US: Detainees Transferred from Syria to Iraq
ISIS Suspects Put at Risk of Torture, Unfair Trials
![Rusafa Central Criminal Court in Baghdad.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201807mena_iraq_court2.jpg?itok=Mi18RJB_)
October 30, 2018
China: New Political Requirements for Tibetan Monastics
Authorities ‘Sinicizing’ Religion
![201810Asia_Tibet_Police](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201810asia_tibet_police.jpg?itok=-lmQr_WB)
October 30, 2018
Bearing Witness Through Names in Russia
What it Meant to Participate in the Commemoration of Stalin’s Victims
![201810europe_russia_commemoration_6](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201810europe_russia_commemoration_6.jpg?itok=UeXJ0R20)
October 30, 2018
Lebanon Data Contradicts Political Fearmongering
Supports Move for Equal Nationality Laws
![Joelle Bassoul, a Lebanese national, doesn’t know how she will ever tell her children they are not Lebanese like her family and their friends, just because their father is not Lebanese.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201809mena_lebanon_nationalitylaw.jpg?itok=jGMlaCPx)
![Colombia ELN soldiers](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201810ame_colombia_eln.jpg?itok=ro8kTceM)
October 30, 2018
US: Make Asylum Accessible to People Fleeing Violence
Many Leaving Central America to Seek Protection
![201810us_AsylumSeekers_MotherandChildren](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201810us_asylumseekers_motherandchildren.jpg?itok=Oq02Wvh7)
October 30, 2018
Qatar: Gulf’s First Refugee Asylum Law
Positive Step, But Unnecessary Rights Restrictions
![Doha Skyline, Qatar.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201810mena_qatar_skyline.jpg?itok=kou7gQlJ)
October 30, 2018
If other countries can balance human rights and border security, so can the United States
![A soldier walking in Almoloya de Juarez, on the outskirts of Mexico City, January 10, 2016](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712americas_mexico_security.jpg?itok=ihGSl3DL)
October 29, 2018
Indonesia: Fresh Wave of Anti-LGBT Rhetoric, Arrests
Officials Should Condemn Discrimination, Protect At-Risk Groups
![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_)
October 29, 2018
Thailand: Probe of Dissident Rap Group Baseless
Junta Should Immediately Drop Investigation of Viral Music Video
![Rap Against Dictatorship is under investigation after releasing their now viral music video, with over 20 million views on YouTube, “Prathet Ku Me” (“What My Country Has Got”) on October 22, 2018 for lyrics that criticize the Thai government.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201810asia_thailand_rapagainstdictatorship.png?itok=LX9dpUiZ)
October 29, 2018
Is the US Treating the Far-Right Threat Seriously Enough?
Recent Attacks Show Need to Re-Examine Priorities
![201810us_shooting_pittsburgh_synagogue](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201810us_shooting_pittsburgh_synagogue.jpg?itok=YNFYGtQB)
October 29, 2018
Mexico: Torture and Historical Truth
![Attorney's General office's special agents embark into an armoured car some of the 27 municipal policemen involved in an attack against students in Iguala last month and now presented to the press in Mexico City on October 17, 2014.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201810americas_mexico_lecciones.jpg?itok=UaVpA4_t)