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Aug 1 2014 12:33PM
Life in Gaza: terror at night and massacres in the day

Last Monday and Tuesday were the scariest days and nights since the current conflict began. The violence finally reached the area where I live. The area where I, my children and neighbours, had thought it was safe. After I finished my...

Jul 31 2014 11:22AM
'We are all Gaza': Palestinian anger in the West Bank

Across the city of Ramallah in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) hang billboards and banners showing images of bloodshed and destruction alongside the words: “Here now, we are all Gaza”. Many of these posters, which I also saw...

Jul 30 2014 1:35PM
[CHRB] Accused Murder Suspects Severely Beaten; Several Activists’ Trials Beginning

China Human Rights Briefing July 25 – 30, 2014 Contents Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment & Punishment Petitioners Severely Beaten in Detention, Held on Suspicion of Killing Policeman Freedom of Peaceful Assembly...

Jul 29 2014 4:08PM
'Nowhere in Gaza is safe': a snapshot of life under the bombs

This morning as I brushed my teeth I could hear the familiar buzzing of a drone circling above our building. I ignored the sound. Drones circle overhead all the time; you never know whether it’s just for surveillance or an impending...

Jul 29 2014 3:33PM
His child died while he was in prison

Ángel Amílcar Colón Quevedo's eight-year-old son was dying of cancer. Ángel is a black Honduran, a member of the downtrodden Garifuna community. In desperate hope of earning money for a cure for his child, Ángel tried to get to the...