Although leprosy is curable, people in India whose bodies show harm done by the disease face various sorts of discrimination and cruelty.

I am shocked by the point about "grounds for divorce". Does India still require people present "grounds" if they want a divorce? If so, the change that's needed here is to eliminate that requirement.

Teenagers are threatened by laws that could jail them for sexting or inviting others to sext them.

I think it is unkind to pressure someone to sext, and I would not do that, even though pressuring is not equivalent to forcing. However, it is simply wrong to punish adolescents for sexting, or anything else sexual that they willingly do. Sex is the normal preoccupation of adolescents.

Egyptian journalist Hossam Bahgat has been freed.

The article does not indicate whether the charges, publishing something that displeased the state, have been dropped.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled against freedom of speech by endorsing censorship of opinions and even views about history. Evidently it doesn't fully support human rights. Respecting freedom of speech means respecting the right to state views we oppose.

Antisemitism is prejudice against a group of people which (in the usual interpretation) includes me. I disapprove of it, but I respect people's right to state that opinion or any other.

When a state mandates a specific position on a factual question, that makes it impossible to discuss that question frankly in that country.

Nigeria Must Own Up to the Blood Shed for Oil.

The officials responsible for the murder of Ogoni environmental activists 20 years ago have not been punished or even censured, and some remain in positions of power today.