Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Russia: Bill Bans Work with Most Foreign Groups
Click to expand Image FILE: A Russian state flag waves on top of a hammer and sickle at the State Duma, lower parliament chamber, headquarters in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017 © AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko (Berlin) – Russia’s lower house of parliament has adopted a bill prohibiting collaboration with unregistered foreign...
Russia Grants Immunity for Crimes Committed in State’s Interests
Click to expand Image At a plenary session of Russia’s State Duma, First Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation Irina Pankina (left), confers with Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Economic Policy Maxim Topilin (center) and First Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma Alexander...
Ukraine: Russian Missile Strike on Lviv a Possible War Crime
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Mali: Mounting Islamist Armed Group Killings, Rape
Click to expand Image An aerial view of the town of Ménaka, Mali, on November 22, 2020. © 2020 SOULEYMANE AG ANARA/AFP via Getty Images Islamist armed groups have carried out widespread killings, rapes, and lootings of villages in northeast Mali since January 2023 forcing thousands of people to flee. Security has deteriorated sharply amid clashes...
Russia’s Sham Trial of Ukrainian Prisoners of War
Click to expand Image Soldiers of Ukraine’s “Azov” Brigade attend a court hearing in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 14, 2023. © 2023 Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters In June, Russia’s Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don began criminal proceedings against 13 men and 9 women from the Ukrainian “Azov” Brigade. The defendants are being...
Ukraine: Civilian Deaths from Cluster Munitions
Click to expand Image The carrier section of an 9M27K-series Uragan rocket that landed outside the home of a woman living on the left bank of the Siverskiy Donets River while Russian forces occupied the area in 2022. Each rocket delivers 30 9N210 or 9N235 submunitions. © 2022 Private Ukrainian forces have used cluster munitions that caused deaths...
Ukraine Promises Inquiry into Banned Landmine Use
Click to expand Image Members of a special demining unit of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine searching for landmines in Horenka, Kyiv oblast, May 27, 2022. © 2022 Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images. (Kyiv, June 30, 2023) – The Ukrainian government should act on its expressed commitment not to use banned antipersonnel landmines,...
UN Chief’s ‘List of Shame’ Adds Russia, Omits Israel
Click to expand Image A three-story house that reportedly had 30 members of one Palestinian family destroyed by Israeli airstrikes, in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza, May 13, 2023. © 2023 Momen Faiz/NurPhoto via AP Photo United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has added Russia’s military forces to his annual “list of...
Estonia legalizes same-sex marriage
Click to expand Image Annual gay pride parade in Tallinn, Estonia, July 8, 2017. © 2017 yegorovnick/Shutterstock In a significant step toward greater equality, Estonia’s parliament voted Tuesday in favor of new legislation legalizing same-sex marriage, making it the first Baltic country to do so. The bill expands existing partnership...
Ukraine: Support Needed to End Institutionalization of Children
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 (London) – Officials and business leaders at the Ukraine Recovery Conference, in London on June 21-22, 2023, should ensure that any “Marshal Plan” for the war-ravaged country includes...
