Major selling points: * New 44th edition of comprehensive reference guide to international human rights * Covers 159 countries and delivers the most comprehensive analysis of the state of human rights in the world 1 January to 31 December 2017 * Published annually by leading human rights NGO * Essential reading for policy makers, activists and anyone with an interest in human rights Covering: A 2017 rollback of human rights worldwide; Governments continued to clamp down on the rights to protest; Women's rights took a nosedive in the USA, Russia and Poland; Sweeping crackdowns on LGBT communities in Chechnya and Egypt; A military campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya population in Myanmar; More than 312 human rights defenders killed in 2017, up from 281 the year before; War crimes and crimes against humanity in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and South Sudan.