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Bangladesh: End illegal detentions immediately

Authorities should charge or release detainees, stop practice of secret arrests

Russia and USA should arrange immediate evacuation of ten-year-old girl shot by sniper

Ghina Ahmad Wadi trapped in besieged town of Madaya and in excruciating pain

South Africa: Four years after Marikana massacre, British mining company fails to improve squalid housing conditions for workers

Lonmin has built just three show houses in Marikana since 2006 Mine workers still live in “truly appalling” conditions

Syria: reported chlorine attack in Aleppo sign of Assad's 'intensified' use of chemical weapons

If confirmed, al-Zibdiye attack would be just latest war crime

Iranian women's rights activists treated as 'enemies of the state' in renewed crackdown

Dozens of women hauled in for long threatening interrogations

India: Irom Sharmila's 16-year hunger strike 'testament to her passion for human rights'

‘A peaceful protest was criminalised’ - Abhirr VP

Canada must halt massive British Columbia dam on indigenous peoples' land - new report

‘Site C’ dam will flood over 60 miles of traditional territory of West Moberly and Prophet River first nations

Pakistan: Attack on Quetta hospital ‘abhorrent disregard for the sanctity of life’

An apparently pre-planned suicide attack, which killed at least 63 people and wounded more than 50 others in a hospital in Quetta, south-western Pakistan, today is the latest in a series of horrifi