Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Russia Bans Key Platform for Civil Society Cooperation
This week, Russia’s prosecutor general designated as “undesirable” the EU-Russian Civil Society Forum, a prominent nongovernmental organization promoting cooperation between Russian and European civil society groups and activists. Click to expand Image EU-Russia Civil Society Forum’s logo. © EU-Russia Civil Society Forum Under...
Ukraine: Russian Torture Center in Kherson
Click to expand Image A cell at a preliminary detention center that is believed to have been used by Russian forces to torture civilians in Kherson, Ukraine, November 16, 2022. © 2022 Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images New evidence has emerged that Russian forces unlawfully detained and tortured people in a torture center and in other facilities...
Ukraine’s New Health Rules Spotlight Barriers to Emergency Contraception
Click to expand Image A customer walks out of a drugstore lit by a portable generator during a blackout in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv following massive Russian airstrikes on January 14, 2023. © 2023 Yuriy Dyachyskyn/AFP via Getty Images As of April 1, Ukraine’s Ministry of Healthcare introduced electronic prescriptions as an...
Investigation Launches into Forcible Transfer of Children in Ukraine
Click to expand Image The overgrown playground of a residential institution for children in Kherson, Ukraine, where Russian forces allegedly took 46 children from, as seen on November 27, 2022. © 2022 Chris McGrath/Getty Images Yesterday, the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) initiated an investigation into the forcible...
Russia’s Security Service Arrests American Reporter
Russia’s Federal Security Service has arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on “suspicion of espionage in the interests of the American government,” and a court has ordered him to pretrial custody until May 29. Click to expand Image ID photo of Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal. © AFP/Getty...
France, EU: Raise Rights During Top-Level China Visit
Click to expand Image France’s President Emmanuel Macron, right, welcomes European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, December 12, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Michel Euler (Paris) – French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen should make human rights a priority...
Ukraine: International Justice Response
Click to expand Image A resident looks at an apartment building damaged during heavy fighting near the Illich Iron and Steel Works Metallurgical Plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, April 16, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov (The Hague) – Governments and international bodies that have made unprecedented efforts to promote justice for crimes...
Tirana Hassan to Lead Human Rights Watch
(New York) – Tirana Hassan, a lawyer and veteran human rights investigator who has documented human rights abuses throughout crises and conflicts globally, has been named the next executive director of Human Rights Watch, the organization announced today. Hassan was previously the Human Rights Watch chief programs officer and had been serving as...
Ukraine: Izium Apartment Victims Need Justice
(Kyiv, March 22, 2023) – Russian forces used a large air-delivered munition on an apartment building on March 9, 2022, in Izium, eastern Ukraine, in an attack that killed at least 44 civilians and violated the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today in a web report. The report, “A Thousand Explosions in My Ears,” uses survivor testimony,...
Russia Opens New Case against Memorial
Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov, at Memorial’s Moscow office, which the Russian government has confiscated. © 2022 Memorial Today, police and criminal investigators in Moscow raided the homes of nine staff and board members of Memorial, one of Russia’s leading human rights organizations and a co-recipient of the 2022 Nobel Peace...
