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Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)

      Ukraine: New Light on Russia’s Rail Station Attack

      Click to expand Image Ukrainian authorities inspect the rocket motor and guidance section of a Tochka-U missile next to the main building of the Kramatorsk train station in eastern Ukraine on April 8, 2022. The phrase “Payback for the children” is painted in Russian on the missile. © 2022 Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images (Kyiv, February 21, 2023)...

      Russia: Political Prisoner Feared Forcibly Disappeared

      Click to expand Image Former coordinator of the Open Russia civic movement Andrey Pivovarov after a search in his apartment. June 01, 2021. St Petersburg, Russia. © 2021 David Frenkel (New York, February 18, 2023) – Russian authorities have refused for a month to provide information about the location of a political prisoner, Andrey Pivovarov,...

      China and Russia Fail to Defund UN Human Rights Work

      Click to expand Image Dai Bing (on screen), China’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, speaks during the opening of the main session of the Fifth Committee of the 77th UN General Assembly in New York, October 3, 2022. © 2022 Xinhua/Shutterstock United Nations member states agreed to fully fund UN human rights mechanisms...

      Human Rights Watch Film Festival Returns in London

      Click to expand Image Screenshot from the film Woman. The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 27th year in London, presents a lineup of 10 award-winning, international documentary films in partnership with Barbican Cinema, and generously supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery. The festival program, presented in person at...

      UK/EU: Investigate, Sanction Visiting Xinjiang Official

      Click to expand Image The perimeter wall of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in western China’s Xinjiang region, April 23, 2021. © 2021 Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo (London) – The UK government and European Union should investigate and appropriately sanction rather than meet with a visiting top Chinese official from Xinjiang,...

      20th Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival

      Click to expand Image Still from the film UÝRA: THE RISING FOREST © (Toronto, February 8, 2023) – The Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival (HRWFF) in partnership with Hot Docs Cinema will be held from March 8 to 19, 2023; March 8-12 in-person at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, and March 13-19 on Hot Docs’ digital platform....

      20th Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival

      Click to expand Image Still from the film UÝRA: THE RISING FOREST © Toronto, February 7, 2023) – The Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival (HRWFF) in partnership with Hot Docs Cinema will be held from March 8 to 19, 2023; March 8-12 in-person at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, and March 13-19 on Hot Docs’ digital platform....

      Russia Legalizes Massive DNA Collection Without Oversight

      Click to expand Image DNA sample is pipetted into a Petri dish, January 20, 2020. © 2020 Klaus Ohlenschläger/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law extending compulsory DNA data collection to millions of people yesterday. Anyone suspected of any crime will have their DNA collected, and those convicted or...

      Israel: Collective Punishment against Palestinians

      Click to expand Image Israeli forces enter the East Jerusalem home of Khayri Alqam, who killed seven civilians in the Israeli settlement of Neve Yaakov on January 27, 2023, to seal and eventually demolish it. © 2023 Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty (Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities’ actions to seal the family homes in the occupied West Bank of...

      US Congress Helps Boost Justice in Ukraine

      Click to expand Image A view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on May 28, 2020. © 2020 Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP Images Following a visit to the United States by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the US Congress passed an omnibus appropriations package on December 23 that included several legislative fixes that could make...