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California pressures poor people who cannot pay bail to plead guilty in order to be released from jail, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Apr 11. The system of money bail and pretrial detention also results in the unnecessary jailing of innocent people and undermines justice for all.

Indonesian authorities should immediately and unconditionally release two men detained in Aceh province under a local ordinance that criminalizes homosexuality, Human Rights Watch said on Apr 09.

Representatives of Serbia-based companies interested in hiring hold speed interviews with Roma job seekers at Roma employment conference and fair, organized within the European Support to Roma Inclusion project “We Are Here Together", Belgrade, 31 May 2016.

South Sudanese new arrivals rest at Ngoromoro after a long journey from South Sudan’s Pajok town. 

In the last weeks, ahead of International Roma Day on 8 April, EU leaders in Brussels have been paying great lip service to Roma, Europe’s largest and most disadvantaged minority. 

Health workers and volunteers make their way to deliver polio vaccines in the remote village of Bani Mansour, Alhaymah, Yemen, Friday 17 February 2017.

In 1996 in Rwanda, wooden crosses mark the graves in a cemetery in the village of Nyanza in a rural area of Kigali, the capital. During the 1994 genocide, over 10,000 people were burned to death in Nyanza as they tried to escape towards Burundi.

A toddler shows a scar from the shot he sustained in the chest during the Jamaac Dubad killings, when he was 5-months-old. His mother and grandmother were killed in the incident, December 2016.

The US State Department’s move on April 3, 2017, to block funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) endangers key health and protection services for some of the world’s most marginalized women and girls, Human Rights Watch said on Apr 05. The US is one of the agency’s largest donors, providing US$69 million annually, allocated globally for its core funding and humanitarian emergency responses.

China’s human rights environment continues to deteriorate as Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump prepare to meet at a summit on April 6-7, 2017, at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Human Rights Watch said on Apr 04.