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Children play in a mud puddle in the section for foreign families at Al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria on March 31, 2019.
Displacement
Thousands of children are stranded at a camp in northern Syria. Who will repatriate them?
Members of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign react on the presentation of a banner referring to the kidnapped Chibok school girls, during a sit-out in Abuja, Nigeria May 18, 2016,
Conflict
Terrorists launched fewer attacks in 2016. But they took twice as many hostages.
Blood splatter above the bed of Safwan Shebli, 23, who was killed by opposition groups during an August 4th offensive in Barouda village, northern Syria; photo taken September 8, 2013.
Conflict & Justice
Syrian rebel forces are guilty of atrocities, too
Global Politics
Now Comes New Evidence that ‘Strongly Suggests’ the Syrian Government Carried Out Chemical Attack
Global Politics
Women and politics in the Muslim World
Use of phosphorous in Gaza
China’s secret detention centers
Conflict & Justice
In Russia, Raids on NGOs Deemed ‘Foreign Agents’ Continue
Global Politics
Human Rights Watch: Bush Administration Subjected Libyan Prisoners To Waterboarding
Global Politics
The Toll of Teen Pregnancy and Childbirth in Africa
Human Rights Abuses Across Syrian Borders
Report Critical of Assad Crackdown on Syrian Dissent
Conflict & Justice
Dutch Transgender Law Violates Rights
Global Politics
Report: Chinese Children Facing High Exposure to Lead from Factories
Global Politics
In many U.S. classrooms, corporal punishment is still the school bully
Conflict & Justice
Russia’s penal system after Solzhenitsyn
Conflict & Justice
China responds to human rights record
Conflict & Justice
Drugs and human rights in Mexico
Conflict & Justice
Reaction to Guantanamo charges
Human Rights Watch on Libya