The 10 Worst Countries For Human Rights

 

No. 1: Syria

A picture taken on Dec. 1, 2013, shows damaged buildings in the Salah al-Din neighborhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

  

No. 2: Sudan

Members of the campaign group Sudan Change Now protest outside the Sudanese embassy in London on Sept. 28, 2013, during a demonstration about the National Congress Party regime and its brutal attacks on Sudanese protestors taking part in ongoing fuel subsidy and anti-corruption demonstrations.

  

No. 3: The Democratic Republic Of Congo

Troops in the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo patrol in Kiwanja, a town around 20 kilometers (12 miles) away from the fighting between army troops and rebels, on Nov. 2, 2013.

 

No. 4: Pakistan 

Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai addresses the European Parliament assembly on Nov. 20, 2013, after receiving the EU's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize in recognition of her crusade for the right of all children, girls and boys, to an education.

  

No. 5: Somalia

A Somali refugee walks in front of a camp for internally displaced people near the parliament in Mogadishu on Dec. 4, 2012. The humanitarian crisis in Somalia remains "critical," said Stefano Porretti, acting United National Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia.

 

No. 6: Afghanistan

Afghan university students and independent civil society activists take part in a demonstration in support of passing the Elimination of Violence against Women law in front of parliament in Kabul on May 27, 2013.

 

No. 7: Iraq

An Iraqi man looks at the damages caused by suicide attacks on Nov. 24, 2013, in the northern city of Tuz Khurmatu

 

No. 8: Myanmar
Ethnic Chin refugees from Myanmar participate in a protest against their government in New Delhi on Oct. 30, 2013. The thousand-strong demonstrators held the protest against alleged discrimination and repression of Chin Christians by Myanmar's government. The ethnic Chin minority, 90 percent of whom are Christian, account for about one percent of Myanmar's 57 million people and live in the mountainous region near the Indian border.

  

No. 9: Yemen

Yemenis shout slogans in support with young Saudi woman Huda al-Niran outside the courthouse during her trial on Nov. 24, 2013, in the capital Sanaa. Niran, 22, was arrested and sued for fleeing from Saudi Arabia to Yemen with a Yemeni man after her family refused to let them marry, her lawyer told Human Rights Watch.

  

  

No. 10: Nigeria

Machete and axe-wielding neighborhood vigilantes hop into a truck on July 19, 2013, for an operation to hunt down Boko Haram Islamists in Maiduguri, where Boko Haram has carried out most of its deadly attacks in a four-year insurgency that has left some 3,600 people dead since 2009, according to Human Rights Watch.