Approximately 100,000 civilians are trapped in a government-declared "no-fire zone" in the northern Vanni region of Sri Lanka. Tamil Tiger (LTTE) rebels have prevented civilians from leaving a tiny strip of land, while government forces have repeatedly and indiscriminately shelled the area.

Photographs by Patricia Williams exposing the backlog of untested rape kits and featuring testing labs in Los Angeles County.

Hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees in Kenya face abuse by corrupt and violent police and a rapidly growing humanitarian emergency in the world’s largest refugee settlement. Photographs by Marcus Bleasdale.

Photographs reveal the devastating effects of the use of white phosphorus munitions on civilians and civilian property in Gaza.

Abuses against civilians in the Vanni.

Alison Des Forges and Corinne Dufka commemorate the anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide.