Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
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...
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...
