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This week, Saudi authorities arrested the internationally recognized women’s rights activist Samar Badawi and another activist, Nassima al-Sadah. They are the latest victims of an unprecedented government crackdown on the women’s rights movement that began in May and has resulted in the arrest of more than a dozen activists. Saudi women’s rights activists have petitioned government authorities to reform discriminatory laws and policies and have sought to change societal attitudes. It’s time for Saudi Arabia’s allies to ask: what does ‘reform’ really mean in a country where arbitrary arrests continue and the rule of law is so disdainfully ignored?
Violent protests have broken out in Harare as officials have yet to release results from Zimbabwe’s July 30 national election. Follow rolling updates in a new blog on Zimbabwe's contentious elections.
Mika Kobayashi was on her way home one day when men forced her into a van and raped her. She went public about the sexual assault eight years later in a book that chronicled the incident, and the nightmare that followed.
That torture is rampant in many Russian prisons is widely known among Russia’s human rights defenders, lawyers, and journalists. But last week a scandal brought torture in prison to the public eye.
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