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January 29, 2017 Report

KRG: Children Allege Torture by Security Forces

No Access to Family Months After Detention

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January 19, 2017 Report

Burundi: Attacks by Ruling Party Youth League Members

UN Should Impose Targeted Sanctions

Members of the Burundi ruling party’s youth league, the Imbonerakure, have brutally killed, tortured and severely beaten scores of people across the country in recent months.
January 18, 2017 Report

Mali: Islamist Armed Group Abuses, Banditry Surge

Killings, Repression, Insecurity Imperil Civilians in North, Central Region

A soldier surveys the debris following a November 29, 2016 suicide car bomb attack at the Gao airport, used primarily by UN forces stationed there. The attack was claimed by the armed group Al-Mourabitoun, whose forces committed the war crime of perfidy b
January 18, 2017 Report

Greece: Refugees with Disabilities Overlooked, Underserved

Identify People with Disabilities; Ensure Access to Services

Eight-year-old Ali, with multiple disabilities, in front of his makeshift shelter at Elliniko camp in Athens where he lived with his parents and siblings and more than 3,000 other asylum seekers and migrants in October 2016. Photograph by Emina Cerimovic
January 2, 2017 Report

Israel/Palestine: Some Officials Backing ‘Shoot-to-Kill’

Calls for Extrajudicial Killings of Palestinian Suspects Proliferate

Israeli emergency personnel and security forces work at the scene of what Israeli police said was a stabbing attack by two Palestinians on two Israelis in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit Horon near Jerusalem on January 25, 2016.
December 22, 2016 Report

Iraq: Armed Groups Using Child Soldiers

Armed Groups Should Immediately Demobilize Children

Commemoration monument for fallen YBŞ/HPG fighters in Sinjar.
December 21, 2016 Report

France/UK: Lone Children From Calais Left in Limbo

Ensure Fair, Transparent Process for UK Entry

Unaccompanied children in the Calais migrant camp await interviews with the UK Home Office, October 22, 2016.
December 20, 2016 Report

Iraq: ISIS Attacking Civilians in Mosul Retreat

Calls ‘Unbelievers’ Valid Targets

Displaced Iraqi civilians hold white flags as they flee a battle with the Islamic State in Kokjali village near Mosul, November 03, 2016.
December 20, 2016 Report

Central African Republic: Mayhem by New Group

Murders, Rapes by 3R Armed Group in Northwest

Fighters from the rebel group “Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation” (3R) in De Gaulle, in the Koui sub-prefecture of the Ouham Pendé province, Central African Republic, on November 25, 2016.
December 16, 2016 Report

DR Congo: Kabila Should Commit to Leave Office

End Government Repression, Rein in Security Forces

Congolese opposition supporters chant slogans during a march to press President Joseph Kabila to step down in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, Kinshasa, September 19, 2016.
December 8, 2016 Report

Yemen: US-Made Bombs Used in Unlawful Airstrikes

Dozens of Civilian Deaths Underscore Need for Saudi Arms Embargo

One of the three bombs that hit al-Zaydiya security directorate, Hodeida governorate, came through the ceiling next door to the director’s office. The attack killed at least 63 security personnel and detainees.
November 17, 2016 Report

Yemen: Abusive Detention Rife Under Houthis

Release Those Held Arbitrarily, Resolve ‘Disappearances’

A Houthi fighter checks a van at a checkpoint on a street in Yemen's capital Sanaa October 21, 2015.
November 16, 2016 Report

Russia/Syria: Satellite, Video Imagery Confirm School Attack

Evidence Contradicts Russian Denial

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November 6, 2016 Report

Syria/Russia: School Attack a Possible War Crime

39th Reported Attack on Schools in Syria This Year

A man carries what appears to be a remnant of the parachute system of one of the bombs used in the attack on a school complex in al-Hass on October 26.
November 1, 2016 Report

Central African Republic: Deadly Raid on Displaced People

UN Peacekeepers Should Offer Increased Protection

A man inspects his burned hut in L’Évêché displacement camp, Central African Republic, on October 12. Seleka forces burned at least 435 huts in the camp.

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