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In this file photo, a car bomb explodes next to Iraqi special forces armored vehicles as they advance toward Daesh held territory in Mosul. — AP

Iraq holds detainees in ‘horrendous conditions’ near Mosul: HRW

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Daesh rapes and tortures Sunni Arab women too: HRW

A still image from an undated video provided by Human Rights Watch claiming to show people treated in Aleppo, Syria, following a gas attack. — Reuters

France wants UN action on Syria chemical weapons’ use

Aijaz Zaka Syed

Who will save the Rohingya?

Activists of Pakistan civil society rally to condemn the missing human rights activist Salman Haider, in Karachi, Pakistan, on Monday. — AP

Rights groups ask Pakistan to probe abductions of activists

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Police gun down eight Bhopal prison escapees

Nepalese children perform a play based on child marriage in a street at Simikot, the headquarters of Humla district, some 430 km north-west of Kathmandu in this file photo. — AFP

Nepal criticized for not stopping child marriages

Faisal. J. Abbas

How can there be guardianship over women in a modern Saudi Arabia?

A combination of pictures taken in March and April 2016 in occupied Jerusalem shows Palestinian men and youths posing with a mobile phone bearing a picture of them after they were wounded by a sponge-tipped bullet used by Israeli security forces to disperse demonstrations. They are among the Palestinians wounded by a new type of anti-riot bullet Israeli police began using around two years ago, rights groups say. — AFP

Israel’s sponge bullets leave painful legacy for Palestinians

Linda Lakhdhir, legal consultant at Human Rights Watch, talks during a news conference in Yangon, Myanmar, on Wednesday. — Reuters

Myanmar should abolish laws blocking free speech: HRW

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Israelis abusing detained Palestinian minors

Afghan women walk along a street on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan March 1, 2016. — Reuters

HRW slams Afghan ‘virginity tests’ as sexual abuse

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Houthis seizing aid: HRW

A Young Palestinian Bedouin from the Abu Nwar community collects belongings from the remains of makeshift homes that were demolished by the Israeli army near the Maaleh Adumim settlement, east of Jerusalem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. — AFP

Businesses in Israeli settlements contribute to rights abuses: HRW

Syrians disembark from a bus upon the arrival of residents and fighters from Fuaa and Kafraya, the last two regime-held villages in Syria’s northwest Idlib province, in Sayyida Zeinab area, south of the capital Damascus as part of a UN-backed truce. Over 300 people arrived outside Damascus after they were evacuated to Turkey, flown to Beirut, and then driven into Syria. — AFP

Once accommodating neighbors now turn back Syrian refugees

Shiite tribesmen, known as Houthis, hold their weapons during a tribal gathering showing support for the Houthi movement in Sanaa, Yemen on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015. — AP

Houthis arbitrarily detaining opponents, says HRW

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Malaysia becoming ‘police state’ as govt battles scandal — HRW