Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Russia: Harsh Sentence For Opposition Politician
Click to expand Image Ilya Yashin waves to supporters in a Moscow courtroom during a hearing on abusive charges against him of spreading “false information” about Russian forces. Moscow, Russia, November 29, 2022. © AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko (New York) – A Moscow court on December 9, 2022, sentenced a Russian opposition...
Poland: Veto Bill Targeting Sex Ed
Click to expand Image People attend ‘Stop Lex Czarnek’ protest at the Main Square in Krakow, Poland on February 15, 2022. ©2022 Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via AP. (London) – President Andrzej Duda of Poland should veto a regressive and discriminatory bill that threatens sex education, including about sexual orientation and gender...
Ukraine: Russian Attacks on Energy Grid Threaten Civilians
Click to expand Image Doctors operate with phone flashlights during a power outage in Kyiv. Numerous missile and drone attacks in October and November have deprived millions of Ukrainians of at least temporary access to electricity, water, heat, and related vital services. Kyiv, November 30, 2022. © 2022 Abdullah Unver/Anadolu Agency via Getty...
Australia: Use Magnitsky-Style Sanctions to Target Abusers
Click to expand Image Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, flanked by Foreign Minister Penny Wong, in Tokyo, Japan, May 24, 2022. © Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP (Sydney) – The Australian government should use the occasion of Human Rights Day on December 10, 2022, to announce new targeted sanctions against human rights abusers abroad, Human...
ICC: Ensure Victims’ Equal Access to Justice
Click to expand Image Seventeenth session of the International Criminal Court’s Assembly of States Parties in The Hague, Netherlands, December 2018. © 2018 Syd Boyd/Coalition for the International Criminal Court (The Hague) – Member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should make a commitment at their annual meeting to...
Syria: Cluster Munitions Used in November 6 Attacks
Click to expand Image The remnants of a 9M27K-series cluster munition rocket after it deployed its submunitions in the Maram camp for the displaced near the village of Kafr Jales in the Idlib governorate, northwestern Syria, on November 6, 2022. © 2022 Syria Civil Defence (Beirut) – Attacks by the Syrian-Russian military alliance on November 6,...
UN Decision to Advance Crimes Against Humanity Treaty
Click to expand Image UN member countries address the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City, September 25, 2021. © 2021 Kena Betancur/Pool Photo via AP © (New York, November 18, 2022) – The United Nations General Assembly’s Sixth Committee today adopted a resolution to move toward drafting a...
Landmines: Boost Support for Global Ban Treaty
Click to expand Image Members of a special demining unit of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine searching for landmines in Horenka, Kyiv oblast, May 27, 2022. © 2022 Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images. (Geneva, November 17, 2022) – Governments should reiterate their support for the international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines,...
G20 Leaders Should Publicly Challenge China’s Xi on Abuses
Click to expand Image Chinese security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang region, November 4, 2017. © 2017 Ng Han Guan/AP Images Most of the world leaders attending the G20 summit in Indonesia this week are expected to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in person for the first time since he secured an...
UK’s Rights Record under Global Spotlight at UN
Click to expand Image Protesters gathered opposite The Royal Courts Of Justice on the first day of a High Court challenge over the UK’s agreement with Rwanda, which would see the UK transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda, September 5, 2022. © 2022 Thomas Krych/SOPA Images via AP Photo On Thursday, the United Kingdom will come before the United...
