Turkey: Politicians and Activists Detained
Click to expand Image In the corridors of Ankara courthouse, lawyers and MPs wave to Peoples’ Democratic Party politicians and officials waiting to testify before a court. Ankara, October 1, 2020. ©...
View ArticleUS: Lawsuit Challenges ICC Sanctions
Click to expand Image Permanent premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. © 2018 Marina Riera/Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – A legal challenge to a United...
View ArticleRussian Journalist Commits Suicide After Years of Harassment
Click to expand Image Irina Slavina poses in Nizhniy Novgorod, March 2019, in a photo posted to social media. Journalist and publisher Irina Slavina (Murakhtayeva) died after setting herself on fire...
View ArticleMyanmar: Election Fundamentally Flawed
Click to expand Image A resident checks voting lists at an administrative office in Yangon ahead of Myanmar’s upcoming general election, July 25, 2020. © 2020 Sai Aung Main/AFP via Getty Images...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Names First Chief Programs Officer
(New York, October 5, 2020) – The accomplished human rights researcher, lawyer, and activist Tirana Hassan has joined Human Rights Watch as its first Chief Programs Officer. In this role Hassan will...
View ArticleEgypt: Police Beat Man to Death, Family Says
(Beirut) – Egyptian authorities should conduct a credible investigation into the death of 26-year-old Islam al-Australi in police custody and make the results public, Human Rights Watch said today. The...
View ArticleGreece: Investigate Pushbacks, Violence at Borders
Click to expand Image The Greek Coast Guard has been accused of using rescue equipment - namely inflatable, motorless life rafts - to leave asylum seekers and migrants adrift in open water close to...
View ArticleKurdistan Region of Iraq: Media Offices Shut Down
Click to expand Image The NRT headquarters in Sulaymaniyah, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The Kurdistan Regional Government shut down NRT’s other offices in Erbil and Dohuk on August 19, 2020...
View ArticleIMF: Adopt Policies to Reduce Inequality
Click to expand Image Anti-government protesters celebrate the day after President Lenín Moreno and Indigenous leaders struck a deal to cancel a disputed austerity package, ending nearly two weeks of...
View ArticlePeople with Mental Health Conditions Living in Chains
(London) – Hundreds of thousands of people with mental health conditions are shackled around the world, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Men, women, and children, some as young as...
View ArticleDon’t Let Orphan’s Canadian Homecoming Be an Exception
Click to expand Image A girl stands in the annex of al-Hol, a camp in northeast Syria detaining thousands of foreign women and children from countries including Canada as family members of Islamic...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Respect Rights While Restoring Order
Click to expand Image Protesters gathered on Ala Too Square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan's capital on October 6, 2020, two days after a disputed parliamentary election. © 2020 Private (Berlin) – Law...
View ArticleProtesting Sexual Assault in India Isn’t a ‘Conspiracy’
Click to expand Image Chandrashekhar Azad, leader of the Bhim Army, a party advocating for the rights of Dalits, speaks during a protest against the gang rape and killing of a Dalit woman in Uttar...
View Article39 Countries at UN Express ‘Grave Concerns’ About China’s Abuses
Click to expand Image Chinese police patrol a night market near Id Kah Mosque in Xinjiang, a day before the Eid al-Fitr holiday, June 25, 2017. © 2017 AFP/Getty Images A cross-regional group of 39...
View ArticleAnti-LGBT Persecution in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
(Washington, DC) – The governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have failed to effectively address violence and entrenched discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender...
View ArticleFinally, Good News for Asylum Seekers in Italy
Click to expand Image Italians and asylum seekers from the local specialized reception center work together to clear debris after floods in Belluno, Italy, November 2018. © 2018 SIPROIMI It pledged...
View ArticleJustice Delivered in Greece
Click to expand Image Magda Fyssa, the mother of late Greek rap singer Pavlos Fyssas, who was stabbed and killed by a supporter of the extreme right Golden Dawn party in 2013, celebrates immediately...
View ArticleUN: Deny Rights Council Seats to Major Violators
Click to expand Image A view of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters, October 1, 2018. © AP Photo/Richard Drew A view of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters,...
View ArticleMyanmar: Mass Detention of Rohingya in Squalid Camps
Click to expand Image A Myanmar police officer patrols the Thet Kae Pyin camp in Sittwe township where Rohingya Muslims have been confined since 2012, Rakhine State, Myanmar, September 7, 2016. © 2016...
View ArticleHuman Rights on the Ballot in California
Click to expand Image A mail-in ballot from the Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder for the November 3 election, September 5, 2020. © 2020 Ted Soqui/Sipa via AP Images Early voting has begun in...
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