Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
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...
Landmines: New Casualties Show Need to Support Treaty Ban
Click to expand Image Mine clearance equipment on display at a Cambodia Mine Action Center training held in Preytotoeung village, Battambang province, Cambodia, on January 19, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (Bangkok, November 20, 2024) – The international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines risks being undermined by new use by countries...
A Thousand Days of War in Ukraine
November 19 marks 1,000 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This grim milestone highlights the immense suffering the war has brought to Ukrainian civilians in particular as a result of the war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by Russian forces.Russia’s war has killed over 11,700 Ukrainian...
Prominent Russian Rights Defender Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison
Click to expand Image Tanya Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch, with Sergey Lukashevsky, director of Moscow’s Sakharov Center, at the Andrei Sakharov Anniversary Conference in May 2021. © 2021 Andrew Rushailo-Arno Today, a Russian court sentenced one of my dearest friends, Sergei Lukashevsky, to eight...
Statement to the Convention on Conventional Weapons Annual Meeting of High Contracting Parties
Thank you Mr. PresidentAhead of this meeting, Human Rights Watch released a 28-page report, Beyond Burning, detailing how incendiary weapons, including white phosphorus, have been used in four armed conflicts in the past year, endangering civilian lives and livelihoods:Since October 2023, the Israeli military has used airburst, ground-launched...
Statement to Annual Meeting of Convention on Conventional Weapons Annual High Contracting Parties
Thank you Mr. PresidentAhead of this meeting, Human Rights Watch released a 28-page report, Beyond Burning, detailing how incendiary weapons, including white phosphorus, have been used in four armed conflicts in the past year, endangering civilian lives and livelihoods:Since October 2023, the Israeli military has used airburst, ground-launched...
Incendiary Weapons: New Use Calls for Immediate Action
Click to expand Image An Israeli 155mm artillery projectile containing white phosphorus being airburst low over al-Bustan, a village in Lebanon near the border with Israel, October 15, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File Countries concerned by incendiary weapons’ severe physical, psychological, socioeconomic, and environmental harm...
Ukraine: New Law Raises Religious Freedom Concerns
Click to expand Image A Ukrainian flag in the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Kozelets, Chernihivska region, on May 14, 2022 ©2022 Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP (Kyiv, October 30, 2024) – Ukraine’s new law banning religious organizations with ties to the Russian Orthodox Church is overly broad and...
UN Human Rights Council Should Renew Expert Monitor on Russia
Click to expand Image Defendants Alexander Dotsenko (L) and Anastasia Dyudyayeva, in a courtroom hearing accused of incitement to terrorism for leaving anti-war notes in a supermarket, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 18, 2024. © 2024 Andrei Bok/SOPA Images/Sipa via AP Photo Russia’s human rights situation has been deteriorating for years, but...
