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Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)

      UN: New Rights Chief Should Speak Out for All Victims

      Click to expand Image United Nations Headquarters building in Manhattan, New York City, on December 21, 2021. © 2021 Sergi Reboredo / VWPics via AP Images (New York) – The United Nations secretary-general’s nominee for high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, should be a principled and outspoken advocate for all victims of abuses...

      Forcible Transfer of Ukrainians to Russia

      Click to expand Image A bus full of Ukrainians being transferred to Taganrog, Russia from the “DNR” on February 20, 2022. © 2022 ANDREY BORODULIN/AFP via Getty Images (Kyiv, September 1, 2022) – Russian and Russian-affiliated forces have been forcibly transferring Ukrainian civilians, including those fleeing hostilities, to the Russian Federation...

      Growing Civilian Toll from Russian Cluster Munition Attacks

      Click to expand Image Remnants of dozens of Smerch and Uragan cluster munition rockets collected by Ukraine’s State Emergency Service from Kharkiv in April 2022. © 2022 Sergey Bobok, AFP Russian forces’ repeated use of cluster munitions has caused predictable and lasting harm to hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, the Cluster Munition...

      Ukraine: Unlawful Russian Attacks in Kharkiv

      Click to expand Image The impact pattern left on the ground after the detonation of an explosive submunition, one of at least a dozen in the area, in front of the women’s outpatient services clinic of Kharkiv’s City Maternity Hospital No. 1, after a May 23 attack on a populated neighborhood in Kharkiv city that damaged the hospital,...

      Russia: New Bogus Charge Against Opposition Politician

      Click to expand Image Opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza in Moscow. © 2021 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko (Berlin) – Russian authorities’ new spurious charge against opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza is a thinly veiled threat to the Russian public not to engage in dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. Russian authorities...

      The Russian Government’s Advance on Biometric Data

      Click to expand Image Headquarters of the Central Bank of Russia in Moscow, March 30, 2022. © 2022 Sipa via AP Images Last week, Russian legislators adopted a law obliging banks and state agencies to enter their clients’ biometrics, including facial images and voice samples, into a central biometrics database. The measure is set to take...

      Ukraine: Torture, Disappearances in Occupied South

      Click to expand Image Russian servicemen on the roadside in Kherson region, Ukraine. © 2022 Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images Ukraine: Torture, Disappearances in Occupied South Apparent War Crimes by Russian Forces in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia Regions (Kyiv, July 22, 2022) – Russian forces have tortured, unlawfully detained, and forcibly disappeared...

      Russian, Ukrainian Bases Endangering Civilians

      Click to expand Image An abandoned Russian armored vehicle parked next to a home in Yahidne village, April 17, 2022. © 2022 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch (Kyiv, July 21, 2022) – Russian and Ukrainian forces have put civilians in Ukraine at unnecessary risk by basing their forces in populated areas without removing residents to safer areas,...

      A Day to Reflect on International Criminal Justice

      Click to expand Image Demonstrators welcoming Karim Khan, International Criminal Court prosecutor, outside the UN Development Programme headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, October 29, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos July 17 marks International Criminal Justice Day, the anniversary of the adoption of the International Criminal Court’s...

      France’s Energy Plans Should Not Include Ignoring UAE Abuses

      Click to expand Image French President, Emmanuel Macron and Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan meet in Fontainebleau, France on September 15, 2021. © 2021 Chesnot/Getty Images French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing to welcome the President of the United Arab Emirates, Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed al...