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FILE - In this April 5, 2015, file photo, blindfolded and handcuffed men are lead to custody after being arrested in Hillah, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq. The Iraqi security forces arrested three men during a recent security operation in the city who they suspected of members of the Islamic State group. Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, that thousands of people suspected of having ties to the Islamic State group face widespread rights violations in Iraqi custody. (AP Photo, File)

Rights group: IS suspects face violations in Iraqi custody

Associated Press

Group: Libyan groups loyal to army may have killed dozens

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this Aug. 17, 2012 photo, female members of Indonesian Navy salute during a ceremony commemorating the Independence Day at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia's military and police continue to perform abusive virginity tests on female recruits three years after the World Health Organization declared they had no scientific validity, an international human rights group said Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Group calls for Indonesian forces to stop virginity tests

Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017 photo, a visitor walks past the wax figure of Adolf Hitler displayed against the backdrop of an image of Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau next to Star Wars character Darth Vader, right, at De Mata Museum in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Rights groups have expressed outrage over the display of Hitler calling it &quot;sickening&quot; and that &quot;it mocks the victims who went in and never came out.&quot; (AP Photo/Slamet Riyadi)

Indonesia selfie museum stirs outrage with Nazi display

By STEPHEN WRIGHT - Associated Press

Human Rights Watch says Brazil is risking new Zika surge

By SARAH DiLORENZO - Associated Press

FILE In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016Workers at the Luzhniki stadium, which is undergoing a major rebuild to be ready to host the 2018 World Cup final, in Moscow, Russia. A new report by Human Rights Watch says workers building stadiums for next year's soccer World Cup in Russia have faced repeated abuses and at least 17 have died. The report says workers on several stadiums have routinely gone unpaid for several months. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, file)

Report: Workers on World Cup construction sites face abuse

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

Ugandan troops face sexual abuse charges in central Africa

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 4, 2017, file photo, Abdul-Hamid Alyousef holds his twin babies who were killed by a chemical weapons attack, in Khan Sheikhoun in the northern province of Idlib, Syria. Alyousef also lost his wife, two brothers, nephews and many other family members in the attack that claimed scores of his relatives. New evidence presented by Human Rights Watch on Monday, May 1, indicates that the Syrian government used suspected nerve agents in four chemical weapons attacks since December including this one. (Alaa Alyousef via AP, File)

Rights group: Syria used suspected nerve agents in 4 attacks

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Human Right Watch says Israel blocking access to Gaza

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Groups urge Thai action against torture, disappearances

By DAKE KANG - Associated Press

Rights Group accuses Syria of 8 chemical attacks in Aleppo

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 21, 2016 file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro stands with Spain's former Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, left, and former Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez, during a photo opportunity after a meeting at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuela’s government says Pope Francis met with Maduro at the Vatican on Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Venezuela doctors threatened for speaking about lack of medical supplies

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, July 26, 2014, file frame grab from video obtained from a freelance journalist traveling with the Misarata brigade, fighters from the Islamist Misarata brigade fire towards Tripoli airport in an attempt to wrest control from a powerful rival militia, in Tripoli, Libya. (AP Photo/AP video, File)

Human Rights Watch documents ISIS atrocities in Libyan city of Sirte

By Maggie Michael - Associated Press

This image posted online Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, by supporters of the Islamic State militant group on an anonymous photo sharing website, shows smoke rising in the aftermath of an airstrike that targeted areas in Raqqa, Syria. The photo bears the watermark of Islamic State media releases and is consistent with other AP reporting. The Arabic caption on the photo reads, &quot;Russian warplanes target homes of Muslims in Raqqa.” (militant photo via AP) ** FILE **

Once accommodating neighbors now turn back Syrian refugees

By Philip Issa - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, file photo, provided by the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi waves during a visit to the Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt. A year after the general-turned-politician took office after a landslide election win, el-Sissi has effectively shut down politics and is running the country as a one-man show, a far cry from the democracy millions dreamed of when they toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in a stunning 2011 uprising. (Egyptian Presidency via AP, File)

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egyptian president, slammed by human rights group after first year in office

By Nathaniel Madden - The Washington Times

A sign stands outside of an entrance to the U.S. Naval Academy campus in Annapolis, Md., on Jan. 9, 2014. A culture of bad behavior and disrespect among athletes at U.S. military academies is one part of the continuing problem of sexual assaults at the schools, according to a new Defense Department report that comes in the wake of scandals that rocked teams at all three academies last year. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Retaliation for reporting sexual assaults rampant in military: Report

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

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Colombian gangs using machete ‘chop’ houses to secure criminal empires

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Sorrow: Martha Mark is the mother of Monica Mark, one of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram. The girls are likely facing forced labor and sexual assault, according to some who managed to escape. (Associated Press)

Boko Haram kidnapped Nigeria schoolgirls likely facing forced labor, sexual assault

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Indonesian forensic police officers view evidence related to the death of an American woman at a police station in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. The body of Sheila von Wiese Mack, 62, was found Tuesday stuffed inside a suitcase inside the trunk of a taxi parked in front of an upscale hotel in Bali's Nusa Dua area. Police have arrested her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend in relation to the death. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati) ** FILE **

Female police recruits forced into ‘virginity tests’ in Indonesia

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 28, 2014, file photo, smoke and flames rise from an Islamic State fighters' position in the town of Kobani during airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition seen from the outskirts of Suruc, near the Turkey-Syria border. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Islamic State group abused captive Kurdish children, report says

By Ryan Lucas - Associated Press