Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Israel: Strikes on Journalists in Lebanon Apparently Deliberate
Read a text description of this video VO: On October 13, 2023, Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed Issam Abdullah, a Reuters journalist. The attack injured six other journalists from Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP), and Al Jazeera. SOUNDBITE: Dylan Collins AFP Journalist I will always remember his, his wit and his humor. He was the...
EU Commission Highlights Disability Rights in Ukraine
Click to expand Image A child walks down a hallway of a residential institution where he is staying, April 8, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. © 2022 Joe Raedle/Getty Images As Russia’s war against Ukraine takes an enormous toll on civilians, the European Commission has identified the rights of people with disabilities as one of the priorities for...
ICC: Combat Double Standards for Justice
Click to expand Image Seventeenth session of the International Criminal Court’s Assembly of States Parties in The Hague, Netherlands, December 2018. © 2018 Syd Boyd/Coalition for the International Criminal Court (New York) – Member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should step up their political, practical and financial...
Five Anti-War Price Tags, Seven Years in Russian Prison
Click to expand Image Sasha Skochilenko stands behind bars in the court room at the Vasileostrovsky district court in St. Petersburg, Russia, November 16, 2023. © 2023 Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo On Thursday, a Russian court sentenced artist Aleksandra Skochilenko to seven years in prison for replacing supermarket price tags with information about...
Landmines: New Use Despite Global Ban
Click to expand Image Clearance operator from DCA clearing an area suspected of being contaminated by explosive remnants of war in Pajok, South Sudan in February 2023. © 2023 Rasmus Emil Gravesen/DCA Russia, Myanmar, and Ukraine have used antipersonnel landmines in the past year, and armed groups used them in at least five countries, according to...
Russia: Inadequate Response to Antisemitism in North Caucasus
Click to expand Image A mob at an airfield of the airport in Makhachkala, Russia, where they had come to confront Jewish passengers arrived on a flight from Tel Aviv, October 30, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo (Berlin, November 9, 2023) – Russian authorities have failed to respond adequately to a series of antisemitic acts, some of them violent, in...
Ukraine: War’s Toll on Schools, Children’s Future
Click to expand Image The destroyed playground of a kindergarten in the town of Kupiansk, Kharkivska region, Ukraine, May 26, 2023. © 2023 Serbei Bobok/AFP via Getty Images Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has devastated schools and kindergartens throughout the country. Since February 2022, over 3,790 educational facilities have been...
Students, Schools Under Attack Despite Landmark UN Resolution
Click to expand Image A view of a damaged classroom in Avdiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, November 7, 2022. © 2022 Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters Two years ago, the United Nations Security Council adopted a groundbreaking resolution to safeguard education during wartime. The resolution called on governments to both prevent and address attacks on...
Countries Should Back ICC Investigation on Israel-Palestine
Click to expand Image The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, November 7, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File Horrific crimes are being committed with devastating consequences for civilians in the escalating hostilities between Israel and Palestinian armed groups. Impunity for past abuses has clearly...
Top Russian Human Rights Defender Convicted for “Discrediting” the Armed Forces
Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov, co-chair of Memorial Human Rights Defense Center, speaks to the media at a courtroom prior to a session in Moscow, Russia, June 8, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Today, a Moscow court found Oleg Orlov, a leading Russian human rights defender, guilty on on charges of “discrediting” the military by...
