Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Brazil: Ensure Justice for Attack on Democratic Institutions
Click to expand Image The word “democracy” on a pedestrian bridge in São Paulo, Brazil, October 26, 2022. © AP Photo/Matias Delacroix 2022 (São Paulo) – Brazilian authorities should thoroughly investigate all those who have incited, financed, or committed acts of violence in an attempt to negate election results, Human Rights Watch said today...
EU: Ukraine Response Shows Principled Approach Possible
Click to expand Image Ukrainian refugees at a Paris train station, Paris, France on April 30, 2022. © 2022 Pierrick Villette/Abaca/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images) (Brussels) – The European Union and most of its member states espoused a commitment to human rights and democratic values in 2022, and in some instances, lived up to those values, Human...
Human Rights Watch Issues Damning Verdict for UK
Click to expand Image Volunteers sort food into food parcels at the Rumney Forum community charity on November 8, 2022 in Cardiff, Wales. © 2022 Matthew Horwood/Getty Images (London) – The United Kingdom government repeatedly sought to damage and undermine human rights protections in 2022, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023....
Turkey: Tightened Control in Election Run-Up
Click to expand Image Opposition members of parliament hold up placards protesting the Erdoğan government’s proposed law to criminalize disinformation and tighten control over social media as an attempt to increase censorship in the run up to 2023 elections; October 11, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici (Istanbul) – Turkey’s...
Ukraine: Russian Invasion Causing Widespread Suffering for Civilians
Click to expand Image A family walks amid destroyed military vehicles in Bucha, near Kyiv, Ukraine, April 6, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Felipe Dana. (Kyiv, January 12, 2023) – Russia’s war in Ukraine has wrought a devastating toll on civilians and shattered civilian life in much of the country, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report...
Russian Forces Forcibly Disappear Ukrainian activist
Click to expand Image Photo of Iryna Horobtsova, 2022. © 2022 Private (Kyiv, December 22) – Russian forces forcibly disappeared Iryna Horobtsova, a resident of Kherson, Ukraine, in May 2022, and are understood to have unlawfully transferred her to Russian-occupied Crimea, where they are holding her incommunicado, Human Rights Watch said today....
Belarus: New Laws Target Critics in Exile
Click to expand Image Members of the Belarusian diaspora outside the Adam Mickiewicz monument in Krakow, Poland, October 2, 2022. © 2022 Artur Widak/NurPhoto via AP Photo (Vilnius, December 22, 2022) – Belarusian parliament passed legislative amendments to a 2002 citizenship law that could be used to target members of the political opposition,...
Russia’s Oldest Human Rights Group Faces ‘Liquidation’
Click to expand Image Moscow Helsinki Group’s logo. © 2022 Moscow Helsinki Group Last week, Russia’s Justice Ministry filed a petition with the Moscow City Court seeking “liquidation” of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), a leading Russian human rights organization. Click to expand Image …read more Source:: Human Rights...
Millions of Moscow’s Children Surveilled Long Before Data Leak
Click to expand Image A child studies online from home in Moscow, Russia, amidst school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic. October 19, 2020. © 2020 Vladimir Fedorenko/AP Photo Last week, “NLB Team,” a pro-Ukrainian hacker group, reportedly leaked the personal data of more than 17 million children and parents who used the online learning...
Russia: ‘Immunity Law’ Set for Crimes in Ukraine
Click to expand Image Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin addresses the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s Parliament, in Moscow, Russia. July 22, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko (Berlin, December 20, 2022) – Russia’s lower house of parliament has adopted a bill that would provide effective immunity for certain crimes...
