OPT/Israel: Commission of Inquiry needed to advance accountability, address...
Click to expand Image A Palestinian man evades teargas fired by Israeli security forces in front of the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on May 10,...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Mourns the Loss of Robin Munro
Click to expand Image Robin Munro and Sophie Richardson at the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony honoring Liu Xiaobo, in Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2010. © 2010 Private (New York) – Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleRussia Should End Harassment of Opposition Activist
Click to expand Image Police detain opposition activist, Yulia Galyamina, at Zemskiy Syezd (meeting of municipal deputies), Velikiy Novgorod, Russia, on May 22, 2021. © 2021 Nikolay Kasyan Activist...
View ArticleMyanmar: Chevron, Total Suspend Some Payments to Junta
Click to expand Image In this file photo, the logo of French oil giant Total SA is pictured at company headquarters in La Defense business district, outside Paris. © AP Photo/Michel Euler, File (New...
View ArticleEthiopia: Tigray Schools Occupied, Looted
Click to expand Image Children look at books in an elementary school in the village of Bisober, Tigray on December 9, 2020. The school was occupied by Tigray Special Forces and also damaged after...
View ArticleMenstrual Hygiene Day Marks Both Significant Progress and Work Still to Do
Click to expand Image A pupil removes a free organic sanitary napkin from a dispenser at a high school in Meaux, east of Paris, France, on January 7, 2021. The Ile-de-France region installed free...
View ArticleSafe Schools Declaration Protects Education for Millions
Click to expand Image Girls everywhere are at a heightened risk of not returning to school following closures. This file photo shows a sign reading "Education is a right for a girl child" at a refugee...
View ArticleEx-Chad Dictator’s Victims Denied Reparations
Click to expand Image Supporters of Habre's victims, Dakar, 2015. © 2015 Reed Brody/HRW (Nairobi) – Victims of the former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré, have not received a cent of reparations...
View ArticleUS Tulsa Centennial a Timely Reminder Reparations Cannot Wait
Click to expand Image Ruins of Greenwood District after 1921 Race Massacre, Tulsa, Oklahoma. © GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Today marks 100 years since the...
View ArticleBrazil: Investigate Rio Police Command for Deadly Raid
Click to expand Image Activists hold a sign that reads in Portuguese "Justice for Jacarezinho. End massacres in favelas" during a protest a day after police killed 27 people during an operation in...
View ArticleJapan: Global Firms Back LGBT Non-Discrimination Act
Click to expand Image Supporters of Equality Act Japan gather in front of parliament before they submit a petition in Tokyo on March 25, 2021. © Kyodo News via AP (Tokyo) – Major corporations have...
View ArticleYemen: Houthis Risk Civilians’ Health in Covid-19
Click to expand Image Medical workers attend to a Covid-19 patient in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, June 14, 2020. © 2020 Hani Mohammed/AP Photo (Beirut) – Houthi authorities...
View ArticleEgypt: President Should Act to Unshackle Freedoms
Click to expand Image Egyptian President Abdelfattah Al-Sisi. During his presidency, Egypt has harassed, prosecuted, arrested and seized the assets of dozens of human rights groups and defenders. ©...
View ArticleChina: Pervasive Discrimination Under Two-Child Policy
Click to expand Image © 2021 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch (New York) – China’s two-child policy has made commonplace pregnancy-related discrimination against women in the workplace since...
View ArticleActivists Detained in Kazakhstan 'For Their Own Safety'
Click to expand Image Gulzada Serzhan (left) and Zhanar Sekerbaeva of the unregistered feminist group, Feminita. Nur-Sultan, May 17, 2017. © 2017 Svetlana Glushkova/RFE/RL On May 29, Zhanar Sekerbaeva...
View ArticleGerman Prosecutors Reportedly to Examine Wider Belarus Abuses
Click to expand Image Belarusian police block a street during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus on Oct. 25, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo With global...
View ArticleRussian Activist Targeted Under Abusive 'Undesirable Organization' Law
Click to expand Image Former coordinator of the Open Russia civic movement Andrey Pivovarov after a search in his apartment. June 01, 2021. St Petersburg, Russia. © 2021 David Frenkel Russian...
View ArticleLandmark Ruling in India for Survivors of Sexual Abuse with Disabilities
Click to expand Image When she was 13, Razia (not her real name), who has an intellectual disability and difficulties in speaking, was raped by her brother’s tutor in 2014. (Uttarakhand). © 2017...
View ArticleDocumentary Calls for Justice for Kyrgyzstan’s Azimjon Askarov
Click to expand Image Ethnic Uzbek journalist Azimzhan Askarov, who was arbitrarily arrested, tortured, convicted after an unfair trial, and jailed for life, ultimately died in prison on July 25,...
View ArticleAustralians Should Know That Apartheid Is Still Happening Today
Click to expand Image Protestors hold placards as they take part in a rally in Melbourne, Australia on May 15, 2021. © 2021 William West/AFP via Getty Images When Human Rights Watch released its...
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