Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Curtailing Environmental Harms in Armed Conflict
Click to expand Image A slime-pit from a local phenol manufacturing plant on the outskirts of New York, formerly Novgorodske, on the front line in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, July 2021. © 2021 Andriy Andriyenko/SOPA Images via AP Images November 6 is the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and...
Brazil: President-Elect Lula Should Prioritize Human Rights
Click to expand Image Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva votes in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo state, in the presidential runoff on October 30, 2022. © 2022 Rovena Rosa/Agência Brasil Brazil’s President-Elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should prioritize the protection of human rights and reverse the serious setbacks...
Brazil: President-Elect Lula Should Prioritize Human Rights
Click to expand Image Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva votes in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo state, in the presidential runoff on October 30, 2022. © 2022 Rovena Rosa/Agência Brasil Brazil’s President-Elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should prioritize the protection of human rights and reverse the serious setbacks...
Russia Uses Facial Recognition to Hunt Down Draft Evaders
Click to expand Image Facial recognition payment gates at Smolenskaya metro station in Moscow, Russia, on August 27, 2021. © 2021 Bloomberg/Getty Images Moscow authorities are using the city’s video surveillance system with facial recognition technology to track down and detain draftees seeking to evade mobilization for Russia’s war...
Prevent Civilian Harm from Explosive Weapons
Click to expand Image A fireman stands in the ruins of a building destroyed by a Russian cruise missile, which also injured several civilians, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, July 9, 2022. © 2022 Alex Chan Tsz Yuk/ SOPA Images A new international Declaration on the Protection of Civilians from the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas opens for...
US/Mexico: Expelling Venezuelans Threatens Rights, Lives
Click to expand Image Venezuelans walk near a bridge that crosses the Rio Grande River after being expelled from the United States into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022. The Biden administration announced on Oct. 12, that Venezuelans who cross the border irregularly will be immediately expelled to Mexico without being allowed to seek...
Indonesia Shamelessly Abandons Uyghurs
Click to expand Image Indonesia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN Headquarters, September 26, 2022. © 2022 Julia Nikhinson/AP Photo In 2019, when my Human Rights Watch colleagues visited Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, they sought...
Ukraine: Russian Forces Tortured Izium Detainees
Click to expand Image A hallway of cells in Izium Central Police Station which Russian forces used to detain people, September 23, 2022. © 2022 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch (Kyiv, October 19, 2022) – Russian forces and others operating under their command routinely tortured detainees during their six-month occupation of Izium, a city in the...
Iraq: Iran Attacks Kill Civilians in Kurdistan Region
Click to expand Image A member of an Iranian opposition party based in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq lies injured on a hospital bed following Iranian air attacks, September 28, 2022. © 2022 Ismael Adnan/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (London) – Some of the attacks by Iranian Revolutionary Guards on Iranian opposition party offices in the Kurdistan...
World Food Day Amid a Global Food Crisis
Click to expand Image Afghan workers prepare food supplies during a humanitarian aid campaign in Kabul, February 16, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Hussein Malla Today is World Food Day, commemorating the founding of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in 1945. Amid a global food crisis, this year’s theme, “leave no one...
