Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Polish Government Ups Anti-Migrant Rhetoric Ahead of Elections
Click to expand Image Polish border guards watch asylum seekers stuck at the Polish-Belarus border in Bialowieza, May 28, 2023. © 2023 Sipa via AP Images In a bid to legitimize its anti-migrant agenda, Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) is holding a national referendum on the same day as national elections on October 15. The...
Russia, China Unfit for UN’s Top Rights Body
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019 Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP (New York) – United Nations member countries should deny Russia and China seats on the UN Human Rights Council in...
Germany Should Keep Focus on Rights in Central Asia Talks
Click to expand Image German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (R) welcomes Shavkat Mirsiyoyev, President of Uzbekistan, in front of the Chancellor’s Office in Berlin, Germany, May 2, 2023. © 2023 Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images On September 29, German chancellor Olaf Scholz will meet with the presidents of the five countries in...
Governments Should Step Up on Public Health Care Spending
Click to expand Image Surgical Technicians wash their hands after exiting an operating room at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, US on April 22, 2022. © 2022 Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images On Thursday, a high-level meeting of government officials will take place during the 78th session of the United Nations General...
Central Asia/US: Put Rights At Heart of Talks
Click to expand Image Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubaev, Tajikistan’s Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi, Turkmenistan’s Foreign Minister Rashid Meredow and Uzbekistan’s Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov participate...
UN: World Leaders Should Spotlight Global Crises
Click to expand Image UN member countries address the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City, September 25, 2021. © 2021 Kena Betancur/Pool Photo via AP © (New York, September 15, 2023) – World leaders attending the upcoming session of the United Nations General Assembly should urge accountability...
Cluster Munitions: Gains in Stockpile Destruction, Clearance
Click to expand Image A land art painting called “All of us!” by the artist Saype in front of the United Nations headquarters in Geneva installed during a meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, September 11, 2023. © 2023 Reuters/Denis Balibouse (Geneva, September 14, 2023) – The news that three countries have destroyed their...
Setting the Record Straight on Chechnya’s Anti-Gay Purge
Today, the European Court of Human Rights handed down a ruling in the case of Maxim Lapunov, the only victim of Chechnya’s vile 2017 anti-gay purge who dared seek justice for the torture he suffered at the hands of local law enforcement. The court found Lapunov was “detained and subjected to ill-treatment by State agents,” which “amounted...
Alarming Increase in Attacks on Education Worldwide
Click to expand Image On August 17, 2022, a playground sits empty in front of a destroyed school in Kharkiv, Ukraine. © UNICEF/UN0689537/Gilbertson – Highway Child This report was authored by a partner organization, the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, and is distributed by Human Rights Watch. (New York) – More than 3,000...
Russia Denies Its Widespread Use of Cluster Munitions
Click to expand Image Remnants of dozens of Smerch and Uragan cluster munition rockets collected by Ukraine’s State Emergency Service from Kharkiv in April 2022. © 2022 Sergey Bobok, AFP There has been strong global media interest in the latest annual report on cluster munitions, “Cluster Munition Monitor 2023,” which Human Rights Watch...
