Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Protect Civilians from Incendiary Weapons
Click to expand Image Incendiary weapons fall over the city of Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, on November 1, 2022. © 2022 Private (Geneva, November 8, 2022) – Countries concerned by the severe injuries caused by incendiary weapons should strengthen their calls for action to address the human costs, Human Rights Watch said in a report...
US Delegation Makes Historic Visit to International Criminal Court
Click to expand Image Exterior view of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. © 2021 AP Photo/Peter Dejong A bipartisan United States congressional delegation recently visited The Hague, home to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The trip was unprecedented given the complicated and sometimes hostile history of the United...
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...
