![CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel raises her right hand as she is sworn in to testify at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 9, 2018. © 2018 REUTERS](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201805usp_ginahaspel_opposition.jpg?itok=HSRZ3Ktd)
![CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel raises her right hand as she is sworn in to testify at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 9, 2018. © 2018 REUTERS](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201805usp_ginahaspel_opposition.jpg?itok=HSRZ3Ktd)
May 15, 2018
Kidnappings, Killings in DR Congo’s Virunga National Park
Armed Groups Pose Growing Dangers for Tourists, Rangers, and Residents
![Virunga Park Ranger Rachel Masika Baraka pictured in an undated photo.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201805africa_drc_virunga_baraka.png?itok=zMSYO1PU)
May 15, 2018
Secrecy Is Never in Fashion
![An employee works in a factory of Babylon Garments in Dhaka January 3, 2014.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2017-02-bangladesh-asia-garment-factory-worker.jpg?itok=hK8zOW0D)
May 15, 2018
Sudan’s Many Nouras
Teenager Noura Hussein Faces Death for Killing Husband Who Raped Her
![A woman carries water in Al Fashir, capital of North Darfur, Sudan, September 6, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201805africa_sudan_woman_idp.jpg?itok=YA3ogvXo)
May 15, 2018
Iran: Looming Execution of Dervish Member
Halt Death Penalty; Free Others Arbitrarily Held
![Police Forces at the scene of the clashes, Tehran, Iran February 19, 2018. © 2018 Majzooban-e-Noor](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201803mena_iran_dervish.jpg?itok=GgGHrBmB)
May 15, 2018
To Free a Human Rights Defender in Russia’s Chechnya
Daughter of Chechnya’s Slain Rights Worker Pleas for Freedom of Mother’s Successor
![Oyub Titiev at a court hearing in Grozny, Chechnya, May 4, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201805europe_russia_chechnya_titiev.png?itok=S8TYOc22)
May 15, 2018
Russia: Repression, Discrimination Ahead of World Cup
FIFA Should Stand Up for Rights One Month Before Kickoff
![The Russian and Brazilian football teams play a pre-World Cup international friendly match at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia on March 23, 2018. The FIFA World Cup final will be played at this stadium on July 15 2018. (c) 2018 Ashley Kowalski](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201804eca_stadium_russia.jpg?itok=Bb-PT8OL)
May 14, 2018
Nicaragua’s ‘Truth Commission’ a Farce
May 14, 2018
US Bureau of Prisons Policy Change Endangers Transgender Prisoners
Transgender Prisoners Face Alarming Rates of Abuse in Detention
![An illustration depicts a transgender woman housed in a men's immigration detention facility.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/trans_detention2.jpg?itok=nfdKrCk4)
May 14, 2018
Rise in Militant Attacks on Schools in Pakistan
Recent Violence Shows Grave Risks Pakistani Schoolgirls Face
![School children flee as soldiers conducting an exercise to repel militant attacks detain a mock-militant (R) at the Islamia Collegiate School in Peshawar, Pakistan, February 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/rtx2522m_resizedweb.jpg?itok=hpeELaV-)
May 14, 2018
Turkey: Government Targeting Academics
Dismissals, Prosecutions Create Campus Climate of Fear
![Turkish riot policemen walk over academic gowns laid down during a protest against the dismissal of academics from universities in the Cebeci campus of Ankara University](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/052018eca_riot_police_turkey.jpg?itok=uSPMKwzT)
May 14, 2018
Philippines Acts to Combat Violence Against Children
Accountability Needed for Kids’ Deaths in ‘Drug War’
![Mourners watch as Kian delos Santos, a 17-year-old student who was shot during anti-drug operations is buried in Caloocan, Metro Manila, Philippines August 26, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201805asia_philippines_kian.jpg?itok=cYFrQ5M9)
May 14, 2018
Libya: Battle for City Endangers Civilians
Conflict Parties in Derna Should Abide by Laws of War
![Al-Wihda Hospital staff housing units in Derna, Libya, damaged by airstrikes on February 7, 2016, according to a witness.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/1_1.jpg?itok=GyR3BkG8)