Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
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...
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...
