Indian Courts Provide Government a Pathway on Rights
Click to expand Image Police and demonstrators scuffle during a protest against discriminatory citizenship laws outside Jamia University in Delhi, February 10, 2020. © 2020 Manish Rajput/SOPA Images...
View ArticleRussia Legalizes Massive DNA Collection Without Oversight
Click to expand Image DNA sample is pipetted into a Petri dish, January 20, 2020. © 2020 Klaus Ohlenschläger/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law extending...
View ArticleTime to Tackle Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Toxic Air
Click to expand Image Air pollution in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, February 2, 2023. © 2023 Emina Cerimovic/ Human Rights Watch Air pollution in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s cities remains some of...
View ArticleAlgeria: Reverse Decision to Dissolve Leading Human Rights Group
Click to expand Image A demonstration in Algiers, Algeria, on March 30, 2021. © 2021 Louiza Ammi/Abaca/Sipa USA (Beirut) – Algerian authorities should reverse the decision to dissolve the Algerian...
View Article20th Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival
Click to expand Image Still from the film UÝRA: THE RISING FOREST © (Toronto, February 8, 2023) - The Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival (HRWFF) in partnership with Hot Docs Cinema will be...
View ArticleAlready Complicit in Libya Migrant Abuse, EU Doubles Down on Support
Click to expand Image Neighbourhood and Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Várhelyi, and Antonio Tajani, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs of Italy, at the official handover ceremony of the first...
View ArticleAlgeria Shuts Down Its Flagship Rights Group
Shortly after I started my first human rights job in 1986, Amnesty International issued an alert about a group of Algerians sentenced to up to three years in prison for creating the country’s first...
View ArticleDenmark, Sweden Offer Protection to All Women, Girls from Afghanistan
Click to expand Image An Afghan woman carries a child as she disembarks at Copenhagen Airport, Denmark, from an SAS aircraft transporting evacuees from Afghanistan on August 22, 2021. © 2021 Mads...
View ArticleUS: Florida Judges Block Youth Abortion Access
Click to expand Image © 2023 Rebecca Hendin for Human Rights Watch (Miami) – Judges in the US state of Florida often deny people under age 18 their right to access abortion care, Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleHungary Court Closes Door on Transgender Legal Recognition
Click to expand Image An activist waves the transgender flag during a protest at the Presidential Palace in Budapest, Hungary, June 16, 2021. © 2021 Bernadette Szabo/AP Photo In the latest blow to...
View ArticleNo Clarity Over Journalist’s Death in Rwanda
Click to expand Image John Williams Ntwali © 2017 Facebook Three weeks after the suspicious death of John Williams Ntwali, one of Rwanda’s last remaining independent investigative journalists,...
View ArticleOuster of Anti-LGBT Official in Japan Should Prompt Reform
Click to expand Image Prime Minister Fumio Kishida apologizes for discriminatory remarks about the LGBT community by his former executive secretary at the House of Representatives, in Tokyo, on...
View ArticleEritrea: Crackdown on Draft Evaders’ Families
Click to expand Image Young Eritreans return from a military training academy on August 18, 2019 in Elabered, Eritrea. © 2019 Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images (Nairobi) – The...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Film Festival Returns in London
Click to expand Image Screenshot from the film Woman. The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 27th year in London, presents a lineup of 10 award-winning, international documentary films in...
View ArticleUK/EU: Investigate, Sanction Visiting Xinjiang Official
Click to expand Image The perimeter wall of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in western China's Xinjiang region, April 23, 2021. © 2021 Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo (London) – The UK...
View ArticleMozambique: Draft Law Threatens Civil Society Groups
Click to expand Image Representatives of Mozambican civil society groups meet in Inhambane city to discuss the draft law on nonprofit organizations, on February 10, 2023. © 2023 Cesc (Johannesburg) –...
View ArticleThe Perils of Journalism in Cameroon
Click to expand Image Martinez Zogo, left, and Jean Jacques Ola Bebe, right. © 2019 Martinez Zogo and Jean Jacques Ola Bebe The details of Martinez Zogo’s death are gruesome. His body was found in...
View ArticleUS Should Stop Scapegoating Migrants
Click to expand Image A man shows a portrait of Wilmer Tulul in Tzucubal, Guatemala. Wilmer and his cousin Pascual, both 13, were among the dead discovered inside a tractor-trailer near auto salvage...
View ArticleAmerican Bar Association Backs Intersex Autonomy
The American Bar Association (ABA), a membership organization for attorneys in the United States that develops professional ethics codes, has issued a resolution supporting the rights of children with...
View ArticleLibya/US: Rights Concerns in Lockerbie Suspect’s Extradition
Click to expand Image A police officer walks by the wreckage of Pan Am flight 103 in a field near the town of Lockerbie, Scotland where it lay after a bomb aboard exploded, killing a total of 270...
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