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September 7, 2017
Singapore: End Harassment of Peaceful Activists
Unjustified Investigation of Candlelight Vigil Violates Rights
![201709Asia_Singapore_Vigil](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201709asia_singapore_vigil.png?itok=u8rhza_m)
September 7, 2017
Egypt Blocks Human Rights Watch Website
![Sketch showing an Egyptian man being electrocuted.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201708mena_egypt_torture.jpg?itok=ZslONyVK)
September 7, 2017
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's 'War on Drugs'
![President Rodrigo Duterte gives a press conference on the ongoing drug war in the Philippines in July 2016. Photo by King Rodriguez, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201709asia_philippines_duterte_drugs.jpg?itok=j2jbJ4Jh)
September 7, 2017
Saudi sports reforms give girls in the kingdom a running start
![At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Sarah Attar represents Saudi Arabia as the country's first Olympic female runner, competing in the women’s 800 meters](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/main_photo.jpg?itok=3s19wRZh)
September 7, 2017
Belarus Police Stop a Chechen Woman En Route To Safety in Norway
![The national coat of arms is seen at the terminal of Minsk International Airport near the village of Sloboda, Belarus May 19, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201709europe_belarus_minsk_airport.jpg?itok=QAWpikWz)
September 7, 2017
UAE: Stop Policing Gender Expression
Arrest of Singaporeans Sheds Light on Misuse of Law
![Nur Qistina Fitriah Ibrahim, a transgender woman from Singapore, was arrested in Abu Dhabi on August 9 on charges of “being disguised as a woman.”](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201709lgbt_uae_trans.jpg?itok=qlQJnUqI)
September 7, 2017
UN: Compensate Kosovo Lead Poisoning Victims
Families, Children Left Ill, Destitute
![Roma children play in the Cesmin Lug refugee camp in Mitrovica city, northern Kosovo. Cesmin Lug is one of several camps that the UN established in what was known to be a heavily contaminated area near a defunct lead mine. December 12, 2007.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201708ehr_kosovo_leadpoisoning_0.jpg?itok=yugMHr-J)
September 7, 2017
Election-related Sexual Violence in Kenya
![Kenyan anti-riot police fire tear gas in Kisumu, Kenya, August 9, 2017. © 2017 Baz Ratner/Reuters](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201708africa_kenya_postelection2.jpg?itok=Ln5VD2IT)
September 7, 2017
Refocus Intersex Care Standards
Medical Associations Should Back Moratorium on Unnecessary Surgery
![A two-and-a-half-year old born with intersex traits walks with her parents in their garden. The parents have decided to defer all medically unnecessary surgeries until their child can decide for herself.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201707lgbt_intersex_presserpicfamily.jpg?itok=l9ycHtLs)
September 6, 2017
Cambodia: Drop Case Against Opposition Leader
Campaign Targeting Opposition, Media, and NGOs Mars 2018 Elections
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September 6, 2017
Burma’s Rohingya Need the World’s Attention
UN Security Council Should Break Its Silence
![Rohingya refugees walk on a muddy path as others travel on a boat after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, in Teknaf, Bangladesh, September 6, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201709asia_burma_rohingya_bangladesh.jpg?itok=yv1dqOf3)
September 6, 2017
Holding Dreamers Hostage: Trump’s Cruel End to DACA
![Immigration March, San Francisco, October 5, 2013](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201709us_us_immigration_dacaprotest.jpg?itok=X_7tqUfL)
September 6, 2017
Why Britain is Still Getting it Wrong on Burma
UK Government Should Stop Deferring to Aung San Suu Kyi
![Britain's Prime Minister, Theresa May greets the Burmese leader and State Counsellor, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in N10 Downing street in London, Britain 13 September 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201709asia_burma_europe_uk_may_suu_kyi.jpg?itok=3ePJlgpB)
September 6, 2017
Trump's Global Funding Cut Harms Women, Youth
![Bara’a, 10, teaching younger children in her informal refugee camp in Mount Lebanon what she remembered from her first grade class in Syria.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/fy18_vfj_photoselection_web_15_0.png?itok=xBrhAFz5)