Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Ukraine: Perils of War for Children in Institutions
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 The Ukraine war has had traumatic and devastating consequences for children in residential institutions, including forcible transfers to Russia and separation from their families. The...
Russia’s ‘Verdict’ against Ukrainian POW a Cynical Farce
Click to expand Image Maxym Butkevych © 2021 Private Today, Russian authorities reported that Maxym Butkevych, an officer with Ukraine’s armed forces, confessed to having deliberately targeted and wounded civilians and was sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment. The ruling was made by the so-called Supreme Court of the Luhansk...
Navalny’s Oscar Moment Spotlights Russian Government Abuse
Click to expand Image Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appears from prison on a video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, at a courtroom in Vladimir, Russia, June 7, 2022. © 2022 Vladimir Kondrashov/AP Photo In the last minutes of Navalny, the documentary about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny that’s...
Cluster Munitions: Nigeria Ratifies Global Ban
Click to expand Image The remnants of a 9M27K-series cluster munition rocket after it deployed its submunitions in the Maram camp for the displaced near the village of Kafr Jales in the Idlib governorate, northwestern Syria, on November 6, 2022. © 2022 Syria Civil Defence (Washington, DC) – Nigeria ratified the international Convention on Cluster...
Can the G20 Agree on Human Rights?
Click to expand Image US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (right) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at an East Asia Pacific Foreign Ministers meeting in Cambodia, August 5, 2022. © 2022 Andrew Harnik/AP Photo Foreign ministers of Group of Twenty (G20) countries are meeting in New Delhi on March 1-3. US-China tensions and Russia’s...
Trinidad and Tobago: Bring Home Nationals from Northeast Syria
Click to expand Image A Trinidadian boy, then 16, looks out a window in the Houry detention center in northeast Syria on June 18, 2019. He was one of eight family members brought to Syria by his stepfather in 2014. © 2019 Sam Tarling (Port of Spain, Trinidad) – Over 90 nationals of Trinidad and Tobago, including at least 56 children, are...
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...
