February 1, 2018
February 1, 2018
Turkey: Amnesty Chair Detained Again
Court Reverses Decision to Release Taner Kılıç
![Taner Kilic, head of Amnesty International Turkey, speaks at a conference.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2017-06-turkey-eca-tanerkilic.jpg?itok=fZO97jng)
![Tunisian and rainbow flags were raised at a march against terrorism during the World Social Forum in Tunis, March 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/lgbt_march_28.jpg?itok=1kcqz2HD)
February 1, 2018
Indonesia’s Police Chief Investigates Transgender Raids
Rebuke of Beauty Parlor Arrests in Aceh Should Prompt Wider Inquiry
![Indonesia’s National Police chief, Gen. Tito Karnavian, at police headquarters in Jakarta, October 17, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201707asia_indonesia_karnavian.jpg?itok=YVJ4S2AB)
February 1, 2018
Hong Kong’s Great Leap Backward on Political Rights
![Agnes Chow speaks at a rally after she was banned from running in the upcoming by-elections in Hong Kong, January 28, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802asia_hongkong_agneschow.jpg?itok=YLBY77D4)
February 1, 2018
Polish Crackdown Ahead of Climate Talks
Bill Will Limit Protests During COP24 Summit
![Environmental activists chain themselves to a logging machine during an action in the defence of one of the last primeval forests in Europe, Bialowieza forest, Poland May 24, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802europe_poland_environment_logging_protest.jpg?itok=791mNPiJ)
February 1, 2018
Russian Activists Forcibly Disappeared, Allegations of Torture in Custody
Detainee Claims Police Subjected Him to Electric Shocks to Extract Confessions
![Viktor Filinkov.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802europe_russia_filinkov.jpg?itok=MPbrQiky)
February 1, 2018
Cape Town’s Water Crisis Response Needs to Protect the Rights of Millions
South Africa’s Solution Needs to be Rooted in Respect for the Right to Water
![Residents walk past a leaking communal tap in Khayelitsha township, near Cape Town, South Africa, December 12, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201801africa_southafrica_water_environment_health.jpg?itok=C-xnJO9S)
February 1, 2018
Submission to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities concerning South Africa
9th pre-sessional working group
![Film Fest Banner](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2017-02-film-fest-banner.gif?itok=Sgu5e_eB)
February 1, 2018
Libya: Displaced Benghazi Families Prevented From Return
Torture, Disappearances, Property Seizure
![Members of the Libyan National Army climb a destroyed building during clashes with opposing forces from the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council, in Sidi Khreibish neighborhood in Benghazi, Libya, November 10, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201801mena_libya_benghazi.jpg?itok=lk2rnqkD)
January 31, 2018
China: Families of Interpol Targets Harassed
End ‘Collective Punishment’ in Pursuit of Suspects
![Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during the 86th INTERPOL General Assembly at Beijing National Convention Center on September 26, 2017 in Beijing, China.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201801asia_china_interpol.jpg?itok=-GqtHDnt)
January 31, 2018
For Brazil’s Women, Violence Begins at Home
![People participate in a protest march for survivors of sexual assault and their supporters in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. November 12, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802americas_brazil_metooprotest.jpg?itok=40yR5ikH)
January 31, 2018
Millions of Children Denied Free Secondary Education
Governments, Donors Should Energize Support at Dakar Summit
![Secondary school students in a classroom in southern Senegal.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201801children_senegal_school_students.jpg?itok=fxQfz34E)
January 31, 2018
Lebanon: Pattern of Prosecutions for Free Speech
Repeal Laws Criminalizing Peaceful Speech; Drop Charges
![Lebanese members of parliament attend a parliament discussion in Beirut, Lebanon, October 17, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201711mena_lebanon_parliament.jpg?itok=L6_9_jAZ)