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Afghan authorities should investigate the arrests and possible torture of peaceful protesters by security forces in Kabul, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. The abuses appear intended to silence public dissent against the government.

International donors meeting in London to discuss the new Somali government’s reform agenda should make accountability and women’s rights a priority, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper sent to conference participants.

Libya’s General National Congress (GNC) should vote down the latest draft of a new law to bar Gaddafi-era officials from holding public office. The proposed law’s provisions and procedures for exclusion are too sweeping and vague, Human Rights Watch said.

More than 1.2 million are stateless.

General view of Mushaba IDP camp in Katanga province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC.

An albino woman in Tanzania who was brutally attacked due to rumors about their magical powers which are having deadly consequences.

A preliminary parliamentary committee report based in part on witness interviews and given to Human Rights Watch claims top Iraqi officials ordered a raid on a demonstrators’ camp on April 23, 2013, in Haweeja,

A female employee at a garment factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh.

Jordanian criminal justice authorities should immediately drop their three-year prosecution of two intellectuals and withdraw all charges against them. The charges, which include “disturbing relations with a foreign state” and “inciting racist strife,” relate solely to the two men’s peaceful exercise of their right to free speech.