China’s Olympic Challenges
March 23, 2015
photo essay
Opposition armed groups in Syria have indiscriminately attacked civilians in government-held territory with car bombs, mortars, and rockets.
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Syria: Opposition Fighters Target Civilians
March 23, 2015
video
Government and Russia-backed rebel forces repeatedly used cluster munitions in eastern Ukraine in January and February 2015, killing at least 13 civilians, including at least two children.
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Ukraine: More Civilians Killed in Cluster Munition Attacks
March 19, 2015
video
Travel restrictions imposed by the government of Ukraine have contributed to serious delays in the delivery of humanitarian aid, particularly medicines and medical equipment, to civilians in rebel-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine.
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Ukraine: Civilians Struggle to Get Medical Care
March 13, 2015
video
The Cambodian government is failing to protect garment workers who are producing for international apparel brands from serious labor rights abuses.
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Labor Laws Fail to Protect Garment Workers in Cambodia
March 12, 2015
video
Paramilitary successor groups are abducting, “disappearing,” and dismembering residents of the mostly Afro-Colombian port of Buenaventura, despite government measures announced a year ago to curb the violence.
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Colombia: Killings and Disappearances Continue in Buenaventura
March 4, 2015
photo essay
video
The Azerbaijani government’s crackdown on independent voices and government critics, escalating since 2012, has now reached crisis levels.
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Paying the Price: Azerbaijan Silences Independent Voices
March 3, 2015
photo essay
Iraqi Kurdish forces have confined thousands of Arabs in “security zones” in areas of northern Iraq that they have captured since August 2014 from the extremist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS.
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Arabs Displaced and Confined in Iraqi Kurdistan
February 26, 2015
video
The Syrian government has carried out hundreds of new indiscriminate attacks over the past year with air-delivered munitions, including improvised weapons such as barrel bombs. The attacks have had a devastating impact on civilians, killing or injuring thousands of people.
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Syria: Barrel Bombs Kill Civilians
February 24, 2015
video
The Zimbabwe government has used violence, harassment, and the deliberate restriction of humanitarian aid to coerce an estimated 20,000 flood victims to resettle on tiny land plots where the government plans to establish a sugar cane plantation.
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Zimbabwe: 20,000 Coerced Into Precarious Resettlement
February 3, 2015
video
Separatist rebel forces were probably responsible for two recent unlawful attacks with unguided rockets in eastern Ukraine, which together killed at least 41 civilians, including two children, and wounded more than 100 civilians.
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Ukraine: Rising Civilian Death Toll
February 2, 2015
video
The Ethiopian government’s systematic repression of independent media has created a bleak landscape for free expression ahead of the May 2015 general elections.
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Media Being Decimated in Ethiopia
January 22, 2015
video