Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Russia: Foreign Tech Companies Cave to Authorities’ Pressure
Click to expand Image Caption: The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) in Moscow, Russia. © 2023 Sipa via AP Images (Vilnius, December 17, 2024) – Foreign tech companies have given in to intensifying pressure from Russian authorities to comply with draconian national...
UN Funding Uncertainty Threatens Rights Investigations
Click to expand Image The United Nations Headquarters in New York City, US, July 16, 2024. © 2024 Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via AP Photo United Nations member countries should take urgent steps to end the UN’s financial troubles, which are hindering human rights investigations in Ukraine, Sudan, Haiti, Israel/Palestine, and elsewhere. This...
UN Security Council Recommits to Protecting People with Disabilities
Click to expand Image Emina Ćerimović speaks at the United Nations Security Council “Arria formula” meeting on December 6, 2024. © 2024 Private On December 6, I briefed the United Nations Security Council at its first informal meeting in five years on the protection of people with disabilities in armed conflict. During the meeting, I shared...
US Landmine Transfers Contravene Long-Standing Policy
Click to expand Image The International Campaign to Ban Landmines holds a demonstration during the Mine Ban Treaty’s Fifth Review Conference in Siem Reap, Cambodia on November 26, 2024 to protest a United States decision to transfer antipersonnel landmines. © 2024, International Campaign to Ban Landmines. (Washington, DC, December 11, 2024)...
Ukraine Parliament Adopts Bill on Legal Status of CRSV Survivors
Click to expand Image Artwork by the Ukrainian artist Julia Tveritina to raise awareness for the victims of sexual violence, at an art center in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 19, 2024. © 2024 Derek Gatopoulos/AP Photo Ukraine’s parliament has taken a critically important step towards providing survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) with...
Ukraine: Flawed Legislation on Collaboration
Click to expand Image A statue of Themis, the Greek goddess of justice, near Kyiv’s Court of Appeal. © 2024 Human Rights Watch Some provisions of Ukraine’s anti-collaboration legislation make it possible to criminally prosecute Ukrainian civilians for legitimate activities essential to civilian life in occupied areas.These provisions...
Killer Robots: UN Vote Should Spur Treaty Negotiations
Click to expand Image The United Nations General Assembly hashtag #UNGA at UN Headquarters in New York City. ©2024 Ogaga Blessing for Stop Killer Robots (New York, December 5, 2024) – The record number of countries voting in favor of the second-ever United Nations General Assembly resolution on lethal autonomous weapons systems, or “killer...
EU Should Reaffirm Support for ICC Arrests
Click to expand Image European Union flags wave in the wind as pedestrians walk by EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File After the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants against Israeli leaders and a Hamas official on November 21, European Union foreign policy chief Josep...
Proposed US Landmine Transfers Gravely Threaten Civilians
Click to expand Image A pile of shoes during the annual demonstration by NGO Humanity and Inclusion denouncing antipersonnel landmines and cluster munitions in Lyon on September 20, 2014. © 2014 Getty Images (Washington, DC, November 20, 2024) – The Biden administration’s decision to transfer internationally banned antipersonnel landmines...
UN: Approve Next Steps on Crimes Against Humanity Treaty
Click to expand Image United Nations Headquarters building in Manhattan, New York City, on December 21, 2021. © 2021 Sergi Reboredo / VWPics via AP Images (New York) – United Nations member countries should vote to launch formal negotiations for a treaty that would prevent and punish crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said today.The...
