![Yanghee Lee, UN special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, speaks at a news conference in Rangoon, July 1, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712asia_burma_yanghee.jpg?itok=PjyCPxNy)
![Yanghee Lee, UN special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, speaks at a news conference in Rangoon, July 1, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712asia_burma_yanghee.jpg?itok=PjyCPxNy)
December 21, 2017
Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa Government Should Address Barriers to Education
![Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa officiates at the swearing in ceremony for his cabinet at State House in Harare, Zimbabwe, December 4, 2017. © 2017 Reuters](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712africa_zimbabwe_mnangagwa.jpg?itok=upyrtrne)
December 21, 2017
New Zealand, China, and Human Rights: Freedom’s a Lot to Lose
![New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit leaders meetings in Danang, Vietnam, November 8, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712asia_china_nz.jpg?itok=paix2hQx)
December 21, 2017
Kurdistan Region of Iraq: 350 Prisoners ‘Disappeared’
Families Seek Whereabouts After Iraqi Takeover of Kirkuk
![Vehicles of Kurdish Peshmarga Forces are seen near Altun Kupri between Kirkuk and Erbil, Iraq October 20, 2017. REUTERS/Azad LashkariVehicles of Kurdistan Regional Government’s Peshmerga military forces on the road between Kirkuk and Erbil, Iraq October 2](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712mena_iraqkrg_vehicles_of_kurdish_peshmarga_forces.jpg?itok=W1akuH4L)
December 21, 2017
Greece: Urgent Need to Move Asylum Seekers from Islands
As Winter Begins, Accelerate Transfers, End Containment Policy
![Ali, a 22-year-old Afghan asylum seeker with a disability, living in Moria camp, on the beach in Lesbos, Greece. He told Human Rights Watch he can’t access showers in the camp and sometimes tries to wash himself in the sea.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201711eca_greece_refugeeswdisabilities2.jpg?itok=tt9kcJyW)
December 21, 2017
Trapped
![Moria Trapped Interactive cover image](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712moria_interactive_photo_cover.jpg?itok=2BJnb0S1)
December 21, 2017
Statement on Compliance, Mine Ban Treaty Sixteenth Meeting of States Parties
Delivered by Steve Goose, Director
December 20, 2017
Vietnam: Drop Charges Against Activist Tran Thi Nga
Government Tightens Chokehold on Voices of Dissent
![Tran Thi Nga protests against the arrest of blogger “Mother Mushroom” in October 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/tran_thi_nga_-_source_facebook_thuy_nga_oct_24_2016.jpg?itok=ECgiUZAy)
December 20, 2017
HRW Letter to President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov
December 20, 2017
Another Blow to Media Freedom in Kyrgyzstan
Let Foreign Media, Rights Workers Return
![An airplane trace is seen behind a Kyrgyzstan national flag fluttering in a central square in Bishkek March 11, 2013.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712centralasia_kyrgyzstan_flag.jpg?itok=FUwjhXc8)
December 20, 2017
A Refugee Family in Greece Loses Everything as a Camp Burns Again
Greece, EU Should End its Containment Policy
![Mariam, an Afghan asylum seeker and her children in their tent in the Moria hotspot on the Greek island of Lesbos, on December 4, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712europe_greece_lesbos_moria_tent.jpg?itok=ceuh1mG0)
December 20, 2017
Burma: Journalists Feared ‘Disappeared’
Free Reuters Reporters Held Secretly Since December 12
![201712asia_burma_reuters Reuters journalists Wa Lone (L) and Kyaw Soe Oo, who are based in Burma, pose for a picture at the Reuters office in Rangoon, Burma on December 11, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201719asia_burma_reuters.jpg?itok=_y0N48mr)
December 20, 2017
#MeToo in Afghanistan: Is Anyone Listening?
The Government Has Defined Harassment, But Abuse is Still Common
![A demonstrator attends a rally outside the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan, Belgium, October 5, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/2016-10-afghanistan-asia-conference-protest-women.jpg?itok=NEZRd7Dg)
December 20, 2017
Iraq and Kurdistan Region Share Bad Behavior: Suppressing Media
Officials on Both Sides Shutting Media Outlets
![Protesters attend a demonstration against the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Sulaimaniya in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Dec. 18, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712middleeast_iraq_kurdistan_sulaimaniyah.jpg?itok=-jgz2-ru)