Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Human Rights Watch Wins Two Webby Awards
(New York) – Human Rights Watch has won two 2023 Webby Awards, the leading international prize honoring excellence on the internet. One award is for a series of social media videos that draw attention to human rights abuses in Russia’s war in Ukraine. The second Webby is for an interactive campaign about online learning products that may...
Torture Trial in US Highlights Gaps in Law
Click to expand Image The US Department of Justice building in Washington, DC, January 12, 2023. © 2023 Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via AP Photo The trial of a private United States citizen accused of torture as part of an alleged unlawful firearms manufacturing scheme in Iraq opened in the state of Pennsylvania yesterday. It is only the second...
Russia: Law Targets International Criminal Court
Click to expand Image Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin addresses the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s Parliament, in Moscow, Russia. July 22, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko (Berlin, May 5, 2023) – Russia’s adoption on April 28, 2023, of a law criminalizing assistance to foreign and international bodies is an...
Top Russian Activist Indicted
Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov and his lawyer, Ekaterina Tertukhina, at the prosecutor’s office in Moscow when they received his indictment. © 2023 Memorial Last weekend, Russian authorities moved one step closer towards potentially locking up Oleg Orlov, one of Russia’s most prominent and outspoken human rights defenders. On April...
Uzbekistan/Germany: Make Human Rights Key Component of Talks
Click to expand Image President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev delivers a speech at the 46th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on February 22, 2021. © Government of Uzbekistan (Berlin, April 28, 2023) – German government officials should ensure that talks with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan during...
34th Human Rights Watch Film Festival, New York
Click to expand Image Seven Winters in Tehran. Photo: Courtesy of Made in Germany. (New York) – The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 34th year, will present a full edition of 10 groundbreaking new films nationwide in the United States, from May 31 to June 11, 2023. The New York festival will be back with a full program of in-person...
Pope Francis Should Stress Equal Treatment of Refugees During Hungary Visit
Click to expand Image Police patrol the Hungarian-Serbian border barrier near Kelebia, Hungary, December 15, 2022. © 2022 Marton Monus/Reuters Pope Francis’ visit to Hungary from April 28-30 is an opportunity to call out the Hungarian government’s discriminatory practices towards refugees and migrants. The Pope has been vocal on...
Iran Court Issues Sentences in Downing of Ukraine Flight PS752
Click to expand Image Hundreds attended a candlelight vigil at Mel Lastman Square in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 08, 2023 as Iranian-Canadians marked 3rd anniversary of the downing of Ukrainian Airlines Flight PS752. © 2023 Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto/AP Images On April 16, after a trial lacking any transparency, the Tehran...
France’s Macron Ignores Violations During China Visit
Click to expand Image French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese President Xi Jinping take part in a business council meeting in Beijing, April 6, 2023. © 2023 Ludovic Marin/AP Images French President Emmanuel Macron seems to have succumbed to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s charm offensive during a three-day visit to China last week. As...
Russia: Sentencing for Prominent Kremlin Critic
Click to expand Image Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza is escorted to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, February 8, 2023 © 2023 AP Photo, File (Berlin, April 14, 2023) – Moscow City Court is scheduled to deliver a verdict on April 17, 2023 in the criminal trial against the prominent Russian opposition politician Vladimir...
