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Twitter and other social media outlets are a blessing and a curse for human rights defenders. On one hand, they are great for getting the word out. On the other hand, they challenge the traditional notions of state, leading many governments to react to them with misguided severity

In continuation of the protests that have become ubiquitious in cities throughout the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, citizens in Mostar yesterday gathered, as usual, on Spanish Square

Human Rights Watch: The Kenyan authorities should reconsider a new plan to forcibly move 50,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers from cities to overcrowded and underserviced refugee camps

Proposed discriminatory laws are the latest escalation in persecution of Muslims and a political ploy to secure Buddhist votes ahead of polls in 2015

Iran and Iraq caused a sharp global spike in the number of executions carried out in 2013, bucking the global trend towards abolition of the death penalty, Amnesty International found in its annual review of the death penalty worldwide

Years after the civil war's end, Tamil survivors say they are subject to systematic violence from security forces