![Members of the presidential campaign of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi count boxes containing his new presidential candidacy papers at the National Election Authority, which is in charge of supervising the 2018 presidential election in Cairo, Egyp](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802mena_egypt_elections.jpg?itok=nUoyqrBQ)
![Members of the presidential campaign of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi count boxes containing his new presidential candidacy papers at the National Election Authority, which is in charge of supervising the 2018 presidential election in Cairo, Egyp](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802mena_egypt_elections.jpg?itok=nUoyqrBQ)
February 13, 2018
Iran: Investigate Suspicious Deaths in Detention, Release Activists
Authorities Crack Down on Environmentalists
![Kaveh Madani](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802mena_iran_resized_insta.jpg?itok=kfaZqP8c)
February 12, 2018
Palestinian Girl’s Detention Raises Rights Concerns
Israeli Military Court to Try Ahed Tamimi for Slapping Soldiers
![Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi enters a military courtroom escorted by Israeli Prison Service personnel at Ofer Prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 1, 2018. © 2018 Reuters](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201801middleeast_israel_palestine_tamimi.jpg?itok=pQ-o9JoY)
February 12, 2018
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)
February 12, 2018
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”
![Security forces pursue peaceful protesters in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on December 31, 2017. © 2017 John Bompengo](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201801africa_drc_nyeprotests.jpg?itok=90qwrXyL)
February 12, 2018
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)
February 12, 2018
Interview: Mauritania’s Taboo Topics
How Discussing Discrimination, Ethnicity, and Slavery Invites Trouble
![View of Mauritania's capital city, Nouakchott.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802mena_mauritania_capital.jpg?itok=TfnGH9lK)
February 12, 2018
Liberia: Make Justice a Priority
New Government Should Take Concrete Steps on Past Atrocities
![A supporter walks by an image of George Weah, President of Liberia, in Monrovia, Liberia, December 27, 2017. © 2017 Reuters](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802ij_liberia_presidentweah.jpg?itok=TK_sVI7W)
February 12, 2018
HRW Letter to President of Liberia George Weah
February 12, 2018
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)
February 11, 2018
Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concerning Niger
63rd plenary session
February 10, 2018
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)
February 10, 2018
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)