October 4, 2017
October 4, 2017
Uzbekistan: 2 Activists Freed, Others Arrested
Guarantee Freedom to Express Critical Views
![201710eca_uzbekistan_solijonabdurakhmanov](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201710eca_uzbekistan_solijonabdurakhmanov.jpg?itok=YADtGkKN)
October 4, 2017
Japan’s Gay Mockery Throwback
Outrage After Popular TV Program Ridicules LGBT Community
![Participants hold a banner as they march during the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade in Tokyo April 26, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201710asia_japan_lgbt_tokyo_pride.jpg?itok=rBh1Vyrk)
October 4, 2017
Jordan: Parliament Passes Human Rights Reforms
Advances for People With Disabilities, Women, Criminal Suspects
![Jordan's King Abdullah arrives for the ceremony of reopening the Martyrs' Memorial and Museum in Amman, Jordan, on December 12, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/rtx2up8y_layout_comp.jpg?itok=BiyJ5ns1)
October 4, 2017
Burma: Military Massacres Dozens in Rohingya Village
Soldiers Shot, Stabbed Men and Boys in Maung Nu, Rakhine State
![Smoke is seen on Myanmar's side of border as an old Rohingya refugee woman is carried after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, September 15, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201709asia_thailand_rohingya.jpg?itok=0uIX3hcW)
October 4, 2017
Criminalization of Poverty as a Driver of Poverty in the United States
Harvard Criminal Justice Policy Program and Human Rights Watch Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
October 3, 2017
Victory for Gender Identity in Botswana
Country’s High Court Rules in Favor of Transgender Man
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October 3, 2017
Azerbaijan: Anti-Gay Crackdown
Gay Men, Transgender Women Tortured to Extort Money, Intelligence
![Isa Shahmarly, former chair of the Free (Azad) LGBT group, whose experience as a gay man in Azerbaijan, drove him to suicide. In September 2017, police in Azerbaijan started a violent campaign, arresting and torturing men presumed to be gay or bisexual, a](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201710lgbt_eca_azerisa.jpg?itok=ecm6lYz7)
October 3, 2017
How US Surveillance Helps Repressive Regimes—the Ethiopia Case
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October 3, 2017
Yemen International Inquiry Offers Glimmer of Hope
Appoint Strong Experts, Press All Parties to Cooperate
![Saudi-led coalition aircraft struck three apartment buildings in Sanaa on August 25, 2017, killing at least 16 civilians, including seven children, and wounding another 17, including eight children. After an international outcry, the coalition admitted to](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201709mena_yemen_attan2.jpg?itok=_G-xxCtm)
![Syrian children attend class in a school in the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan, October 20, 2015. The school taught Syrian girls in the morning and boys in the afternoon, but lacked electricity, heating, and running water.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/crd_jordan_1.jpg?itok=9ZA1XXme)
October 3, 2017
Syria: First Atrocities Trials Held in Europe
Sweden, Germany Take Lead on Justice for Syrians
![Illustration © 2017 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201710internationaljustice_syria_crop.jpg?itok=e3EAWrgI)
October 3, 2017
Step-by-step, Justice for Syrians
Swedish and German Authorities Pursuing Cases for War Crimes in Syria
![Illustration © 2017 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201710internationaljustice_syria_crop.jpg?itok=e3EAWrgI)
![The name place sign of Venezuela is pictured on the country's desk at the 36th Session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland September 11, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201710americas_venezuela_un_hrc.jpg?itok=cWNFiAye)