![Pátio na Casa de Detenção (Cadet), uma das unidades do Complexo Penitenciário de Pedrinhas.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2015ame_brazil_prisons_reblur_6.jpg?itok=zTkEtua2)
December 8, 2017
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
![A Rohingya woman in a camp in Bangladesh](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201711asia_burma_sv.jpg?itok=mdmBXOwl)
December 8, 2017
The Rights Weekender
![201712asia_philippines_pdea A resident looks at the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) operatives during their anti-drug operations in Quezon city, metro Manila, Philippines March 16, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712asia_philippines_pdea.jpg?itok=rtPkZzpz)
December 8, 2017
#MeToo, Say Domestic Workers in the Middle East
![Poster detailing domestic workers’ rights at the office of Zanzibar: Conservation, Hotels, Domestic and Allied Workers Union (CHODAWU-Z). Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201711africa_tanzania_women10.jpg?itok=FtIjsjZR)
December 8, 2017
Human Rights Watch Statement for the General Debate of the International Criminal Court’s Sixteenth Assembly of States Parties
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December 8, 2017
Human Rights Day 2017
![Human Rights Day 2017](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712blue_hrd_betterresolution.jpg?itok=xsCYV6hN)
December 7, 2017
The Devastating Domino Effect of the Global Gag Rule in Kenya
State-run clinics are exempt from the ban on U.S. funding going to groups that provide abortion services. But many government clinics rely on essential support from NGOs, who can no longer afford to offer it, says Skye Wheeler of Human Rights Watch.
December 7, 2017
Smokescreen Justice for ‘Drug War’ Deaths in the Philippines
False Claims of Accountability and the International Criminal Court
![President Rodrigo Duterte’s official spokesperson Harry Roque at the House of Congress in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines May 15, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712asia_philippines_harry_roque.jpg?itok=3iqAjzzq)
December 7, 2017
Turkmenistan: Animal Rights Activist Detained
Galina Kucherenko’s Whereabouts Unknown; Free Her Immediately
![Galina Kucherenko and her daughter, Valeria, in an undated photograph posted to Kucherenko’s Odnoklassniki account in August 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712eca_turkmenistan_galinavaleriya.jpg?itok=QP3EE93r)
December 7, 2017
Venezuela’s Slide into Dictatorship
![Manifestantes críticos del gobierno marchan en la llamada “madre de todas las marchas” en Caracas, Venezuela, el 19 de abril de 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712americas_venezuela_protest.jpg?itok=XpgBM3sx)
December 7, 2017
Mexico: Reject Internal Security Law
Better Policing Needed, Not More Militarized Law Enforcement
![A soldier walking in Almoloya de Juarez, on the outskirts of Mexico City, January 10, 2016](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712americas_mexico_security.jpg?itok=ihGSl3DL)
December 7, 2017
An Election in Nepal, Decades in the Making
Can It Bring Stability When the Country Has Yet to Heal From the Wounds of War?
![A woman walks to cast her vote during elections in Thimi, Nepal, December 7, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201712asia_nepal_election.jpg?itok=MlHXUD_V)
December 7, 2017
Joint Letter to Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
![Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/2_1.jpg?itok=hLKTVB9k)
December 7, 2017
EU Making Aid Efforts More Inclusive
Mandate to Consider Needs of People With Disabilities
![Sara, a 13-year-old Syrian girl traveling with her older sister and mother, has a physical disability and diabetes. Separated from her family on the rubber boat from Turkey, she slumped into the water at the bottom of the dinghy and fell unconscious.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/2015-12-disabilities-conflict-eur1.jpeg?itok=asnjwqcZ)