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Human Rights Icon Asma Jahangir Passes Away
Her Struggle for a Rights-Respecting, Democratic Pakistan Will Live On
![People light candles for the human rights campaigner Asma Jahangir, who died on Sunday in Lahore, during candlelight vigil in Karachi, Pakistan February 12, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802asia_pakistan_asma.jpg?itok=NmM8Vdx6)
UN Security Council Should Act on Congo
Intervention at UN Security Council Arria Formula Meeting – “The Electoral Process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”
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Mauritania: Human Rights Defenders at Risk
Curbs on Activism Over Discrimination, Other Sensitive Topics
![March organized by the Collective of Widows and by the Collective of Civilian and Military Victims, on the Day of Commemoration of the Events of 1989-1990, November 2016, Nouakchott.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802mena_mauritania_repression_main.jpg?itok=VJ0R0F87)
Interview: Mauritania’s Taboo Topics
How Discussing Discrimination, Ethnicity, and Slavery Invites Trouble
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Liberia: Make Justice a Priority
New Government Should Take Concrete Steps on Past Atrocities
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HRW Letter to President of Liberia George Weah
Syria: Landmines Kill, Injure Hundreds in Raqqa
More International Support Needed for Clearance
![Warning about mines written on outside wall of building in Raqqa, Syria, January 21, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802mena_raqqa_mines2.jpg?itok=C2Qm2f95)
Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concerning Niger
63rd plenary session
Mauritania: Activist Arrested for Social Media Posts
Faces Incitement Charges Under Laws That Muzzle Speech
![Abdallahi Salem Ould Yali](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802mena_mauritania_abdallahi.jpg?itok=ZG__mep1)
Poland’s Twisted Holocaust Law
Law Criminalizes Anyone Who Claims Polish State Was Involved in Nazi War Crimes
![A sign reading "Stop!" in German and Polish is seen at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, during the ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of the camp and International Holocaust Victims Remembrance](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802europe_poland_germany_auschwitz_camp.jpg?itok=TUJLNntL)
Burma: Ensure Unfettered Aid in Kachin State
Military Obliged to Protect Civilians in Operations
![People displaced in the conflict between Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Myanmar military for the control of an amber mine pass their time at a Christian church in Tanai township, Kachin state, Myanmar June 16, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802asia_burma_kachin.jpg?itok=91b7qKYz)
Cambodia: Free Forcibly Returned Critic of Hun Sen
Thailand Violates International Law by Returning UN-Recognized Refugee
![Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen arrives to attend the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) congress in Phnom Penh, Cambodia January 19, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802asia_cambodia_hunsen.jpg?itok=ZAyn79Hf)
The Rights Weekender
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