Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
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...
Support Builds for ICC Ukraine Investigation
Click to expand Image The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, November 7, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File Justice ministers from International Criminal Court (ICC) member countries are gathering in London today for a meeting aimed at supporting the court’s Ukraine investigation. The meeting,...
Australia Commits to Protect Schools During Wartime
Click to expand Image Refugees from the war in Ukraine are among the students at St. Andrews Ukrainian School in Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, February 18, 2023. © 2023 Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images Australia is the 117th country to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration, an intergovernmental political commitment to reduce the...
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...
