![Author interviewing local Tabqa residents after ISIS had been pushed out of city (July 2017).](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201708counterterrorism_syria_photo_01.jpg?itok=_ZFgLQmR)
![Author interviewing local Tabqa residents after ISIS had been pushed out of city (July 2017).](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201708counterterrorism_syria_photo_01.jpg?itok=_ZFgLQmR)
August 25, 2017
The Rights Weekender
![Anti-same-sex marriage poster in Australia.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201708asia_australia_lgbt_poster.jpg?itok=-w0cKEpc)
August 25, 2017
Trump’s Arpaio Comments Stoke Fear
Immigrants Wary Over Similar Situation in North Carolina
![Sheriff's car of the Alamance County Sheriff's Office, North Carolina.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201708united_states_alamance_police_car.jpg?itok=7yw0w1m2)
August 25, 2017
Japan’s Vision for a Revolution in Child Care
![The Chinese national flag is raised during a ceremony marking the 96th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, July 1, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201708asia_china_tibet_flag.jpg?itok=VaifWZ8F)
August 24, 2017
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
![Peace activists rally outside of a Donald Trump campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, August 22, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201708us_trump_rally_phoenix.jpg?itok=gnxfwUgV)
August 24, 2017
India’s Supreme Court Upholds Right to Privacy
Government Should Now Repeal Law Criminalizing Gay Sex
![Gay rights activists hold placards as they shout slogans during a protest against a verdict by the Supreme Court in New Delhi December 15, 2013.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rtx16jkk_layout_comp_1.jpg?itok=UvykP59B)
![A female employer and her children are accompanied by their domestic worker, back right, as they walk through The Avenues, an indoor luxury shopping center in Kuwait City.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2015/2015_mena_kuwait_workers.jpg?itok=IFE4Q93o)
August 24, 2017
Anti-Shia Bias Driving Saudi Arabia Unrest
![Remains of cars and buildings are seen following a security campaign against Shi'ite Muslim gunmen in the town of Awamiya, in the eastern governorate of Qatif, August 9, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201707mena_saudi_awamiya2.jpg?itok=Qta0x_zw)
August 24, 2017
Middle East on a Roll to Repeal 'Marry the Rapist' Laws
Rape-marriage exoneration laws are relics of the colonial past. It's time to leave them there.
![Demonstration outside Parliament on December 6, 2016, with women in white dresses and wrapped in bandages, calling for the repeal of article 522 of the penal code.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201212mena_lebanon_afp.jpg?itok=mTwGDv0J)
August 23, 2017
Thailand: Don’t Weaken Rights Commission
Proposed Law Should Protect Agency’s Independence
![Members of Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201708asia_thailand_nhrc.jpg?itok=pWHvjyep)
August 23, 2017
Private Sector Demands Action on Killer Robots
An Open Letter from Elon Musk and 115 Others
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August 23, 2017
Guatemala: Don’t Seek Removal of UN Anti-Corruption Official
Major Blow to the Country’s Accountability
![Guatemala's then President-elect Jimmy Morales, (L), attends a news conference next to the Commissioner of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, (CICIG), Ivan Velasquez after a meeting in Guatemala City, October 28, 2015.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201708americas_guatemala_cicig.png?itok=9U7mtjUW)
![People attend a gay pride parade to demand for a new law for gender equality after Chilean President Michelle Bachelet sets marriage equality as the government's priority in Santiago, Chile July 1, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201708americas_chile_lgbt.jpg?itok=np5j2JEg)