Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
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...
Global Scrutiny of China Abuses Within Reach
Click to expand Image Chinese Ambassador Chen Xu speaking during the vote on the Human Rights Council decision, Geneva, October 6, 2022. © 2022 UN Human Rights Council Last week’s narrow vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council concerning China’s rights violations highlighted the growing number of governments willing to take a...
World Mental Health Day: Support Conflict Survivors
Click to expand Image Farhan*, a 29-year-old man from Kapisa province, said he could not sleep during the night: “I’m in bed [in France], but my mind is in Afghanistan.” © 2022 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch (Brussels) – Governments, UN agencies, and humanitarian organizations should take concrete steps to develop and invest in...
Russia: First Treason Charges for Criticizing Kremlin
Click to expand Image Opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza in Moscow. © 2021 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko (Berlin, October 7, 2022) – Russian authorities have brought a charge of high treason against an opposition politician, Vladimir Kara-Murza, in a blatant attempt to quash any criticism of the Kremlin and deter contact with the...
Russia: First Treason Charges for Criticizing Kremlin
Click to expand Image Opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza in Moscow. © 2021 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko (Berlin, October 7, 2022) – Russian authorities have brought a charge of high treason against an opposition politician, Vladimir Kara-Murza, in a blatant attempt to quash any criticism of the Kremlin and deter contact with the...
UN: Deny Venezuela Human Rights Council Seat
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019 Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP (New York) – United Nations member countries voting in the upcoming Human Rights Council election should deny Venezuela...
Kazakhstan: Families Struggle to Enjoy Basic Rights
Click to expand Image A woman carries a child in the village of Zhalanash, Kazakhstan, April 16, 2017. © 2017 REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (Berlin, October 5, 2022) – Vulnerable populations in Kazakhstan are not able to secure their basic social and economic rights, Human Rights Watch said today. Almost a million people are receiving help from...
