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Russian authorities have created a pervasive climate of fear and repression in Crimea in the two years since it has occupied the peninsula, Human Rights Watch said today. It is crucial for key international actors to keep Crimea’s drastically deteriorating human rights situation high on their agendas.

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) should renew the mandate of its special rapporteur on Iran, 34 human rights and other organizations said in a letter to council member countries on March 17.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Russian authorities have created a pervasive climate of fear and repression in Crimea in the two years since it has occupied the peninsula, Human Rights Watch said on March 18. It is crucial for key international actors to keep Crimea’s drastically deteriorating human rights situation high on their agendas.

Igot Kalyapin, Joint Mobile Group of Russian human rights defenders in Chechnya, and Tanya Lokshina, Human Rights Watch immediately after the attack at the press-conference. Copyright: Yulia Orlova, Human Rights Center "Memorial" December 11, 2014.

The Academics for Peace petition signed by 1128 academics was read out at a press conference in Istanbul on January 11, 2016.

United States President Barack Obama should call for concrete measures to end systematic repression in Cuba during his visit to Havana from March 20 to 22, 2016, Human Rights Watch said on March 16 ,2016.

Syrian refugees on the border of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia They were among the last group of people allowed to cross from Greece, before the Serbian and other borders along the Balkan route were closed.

Polling station in Bangui for the second round of elections in Central African Republic, February 2016.

Congolese authorities should immediately and unconditionally release two activists who were arrested one year ago during a pro-democracy youth workshop in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Fred Bauma and Yves Makwambala face trumped-up charges in an apparently politically motivated drive to silence dissent. On March 16, 2016, the Supreme Court of Justice is expected to issue a decision on whether to grant the two provisional release.