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Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat is offering a “substantial” reward for information on Monday’s shocking murder of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Galizia.

Newly released US government documents on the mass killings in Indonesia in 1965-66 underscore the need for the US and Indonesian governments to fully disclose all related classified materials, Human Rights Watch said on Oct 18. Those classified documents are crucial to an accurate historical record of the killings and to provide justice for those crimes.

Participants of the third edition of OSCE-supported Dialogue Academy for Young Women from Prishtinë/Priština and Belgrade before their visit to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna, Austria, 12 October 2017.

Complete destruction of Rohingya villages in close proximity to intact Rakhine village, Maungdaw township, recorded on 21 September 2017.

Kenyan police killed at least 33 people, possibly as many as 50, and injured hundreds more in some parts of Nairobi, the capital, in response to protests following the August 8, 2017 elections, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said in a joint report released on Oct 15, 2017.

United Nations member countries should not vote for the Democratic Republic of Congo in the UN Human Rights Council election because of the government’s widespread human rights violations and lack of cooperation with UN rights mechanisms, Human Rights Watch said on Oct 13, 2017. The annual election for seats on the 47-nation Human Rights Council will be held at the UN General Assembly in New York on October 16, 2017.

The Trump administration’s proposals to fix the United States’ immigration system would make the broken system even worse, severely damaging the US capacity to offer refuge to people who desperately need protection, Human Rights Watch said on Oct 13, 2017. Human Rights Watch issued a question-and-answer analysis of the “Immigration Principles and Priorities,” the White House released on October 9, 2017.

President Michel Temer of Brazil should veto a bill that would shield members of the armed forces accused of unlawful killings of civilians from prosecution in civilian courts, Human Rights Watch said on Oct 12, 2017.

People in Turkey accused of links with terrorism or with the 2016 military coup attempt have been tortured in police custody, while others have been abducted, amidst growing evidence of detention abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Oct 12, 2017.