Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
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...
Ukraine LGBT Center Broken Into, Vandalized
Click to expand Image The office of Ukrainian LGBT organization Insight was attacked in Lutsk on June 13, 2023. © 2023 Insight A community center that has become a lifeline for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Ukrainians – and hub of humanitarian activity since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine – was broken into and...
“Loss After Loss After Loss”: Dam Destruction in Ukraine
Click to expand Image The flooded town of Oleshky, Ukraine, after the June 6 destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam, June 10, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo In the early morning of June 6, the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine was destroyed, flooding dozens of towns and villages on both sides of the Dnipro River. In the ensuing days, Tanya, 61, lost...
Top Russian Human Rights Defender on Trial
Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov protesting Russia’s abusive war in Ukraine at the Red Square in Moscow, April 2022. His poster reads, ‘Our unwillingness to know the truth and our silence turn us into collaborators in crimes.’ © 2022 Memorial On June 8, Moscow’s Golovinsky district court will hold the first hearing in the...
