Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Growing Civilian Toll from Russian Cluster Munition Attacks
Click to expand Image Remnants of dozens of Smerch and Uragan cluster munition rockets collected by Ukraine’s State Emergency Service from Kharkiv in April 2022. © 2022 Sergey Bobok, AFP Russian forces’ repeated use of cluster munitions has caused predictable and lasting harm to hundreds of Ukrainian civilians, the Cluster Munition...
Ukraine: Unlawful Russian Attacks in Kharkiv
Click to expand Image The impact pattern left on the ground after the detonation of an explosive submunition, one of at least a dozen in the area, in front of the women’s outpatient services clinic of Kharkiv’s City Maternity Hospital No. 1, after a May 23 attack on a populated neighborhood in Kharkiv city that damaged the hospital,...
Russia: New Bogus Charge Against Opposition Politician
Click to expand Image Opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza in Moscow. © 2021 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko (Berlin) – Russian authorities’ new spurious charge against opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza is a thinly veiled threat to the Russian public not to engage in dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. Russian authorities...
The Russian Government’s Advance on Biometric Data
Click to expand Image Headquarters of the Central Bank of Russia in Moscow, March 30, 2022. © 2022 Sipa via AP Images Last week, Russian legislators adopted a law obliging banks and state agencies to enter their clients’ biometrics, including facial images and voice samples, into a central biometrics database. The measure is set to take...
Ukraine: Torture, Disappearances in Occupied South
Click to expand Image Russian servicemen on the roadside in Kherson region, Ukraine. © 2022 Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images Ukraine: Torture, Disappearances in Occupied South Apparent War Crimes by Russian Forces in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia Regions (Kyiv, July 22, 2022) – Russian forces have tortured, unlawfully detained, and forcibly disappeared...
Russian, Ukrainian Bases Endangering Civilians
Click to expand Image An abandoned Russian armored vehicle parked next to a home in Yahidne village, April 17, 2022. © 2022 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch (Kyiv, July 21, 2022) – Russian and Ukrainian forces have put civilians in Ukraine at unnecessary risk by basing their forces in populated areas without removing residents to safer areas,...
A Day to Reflect on International Criminal Justice
Click to expand Image Demonstrators welcoming Karim Khan, International Criminal Court prosecutor, outside the UN Development Programme headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, October 29, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos July 17 marks International Criminal Justice Day, the anniversary of the adoption of the International Criminal Court’s...
France’s Energy Plans Should Not Include Ignoring UAE Abuses
Click to expand Image French President, Emmanuel Macron and Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan meet in Fontainebleau, France on September 15, 2021. © 2021 Chesnot/Getty Images French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing to welcome the President of the United Arab Emirates, Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed al...
Support Justice for Serious Crimes Globally
Click to expand Image The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, November 7, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File (New York) – Countries should take concrete steps to demonstrate that justice for serious crimes matters, regardless of where abuses are committed and by whom, Human Rights Watch said today. To mark...
Russia: Forcible Disappearances of Ukrainian Civilians
Click to expand Image A pre-trial detention center near St. Petersburg, Russia. © 2021 Russian Look Ltd. / Alamy Stock Photo (Berlin, July 14, 2022) – Russian forces in Ukraine have forcibly disappeared civilians and illegally transferred them to Russia, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch documented the detention of nine civilian...
