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Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)

      Fictitious Annexation Follows ‘Voting’ at Gunpoint

      Click to expand Image A Russian officer guards a polling station in the city of Luhansk, Ukraine, which is occupied by Russia, Tuesday, Sept 27, 2022 © 2022 AP Photo Vladimir Putin has just signed a document claiming to annex four Russia-occupied Ukrainian territories in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions. Days before, Russia...

      Fictious Annexation Follows ‘Voting’ at Gunpoint

      Click to expand Image A Russian officer guards a polling station in the city of Luhansk, Ukraine, which is occupied by Russia, Tuesday, Sept 27, 2022 © 2022 AP Photo Vladimir Putin has just signed a document claiming to annex four Russia-occupied Ukrainian territories in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions. Days before, Russia...

      Hungary Should Guarantee Safety of Lesbian Activists During DykeMarch

      Click to expand Image Rising anger over policies of Hungary’s right-wing government filled the streets of the country’s capital as thousands of LGBT activists and supporters marched in the city’s Pride parade in Budapest, Hungary, July 2021. © 2021 Anna Szilagyi/AP Images Hungarian lesbian activists are set to hold their second...

      Explosive Weapons Declaration to Curb Civilian Harm

      Click to expand Image Damage to one of the structures at Kremenchuk Road Vehicle Factory, caused by the second Russian missile which struck the area of the factory on June 27, 2022. Photo taken on June 29, 2022. © 2022 Giorgi Gogia/Human Rights Watch (Geneva, September 20, 2022) – A new international declaration aimed at curbing harm from the...

      UN: World Leaders Should Press China, Russia on Atrocities

      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) – World leaders gathering at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City should commit to ensuring accountability for grave...

      European Parliament Ups Pressure for Action on Hungary

      Click to expand Image People protest in Heroes’ square against a new law that would undermine Central European University, a liberal graduate school of social sciences founded by U.S. financier George Soros in Budapest, Hungary, April 12, 2017. © 2017 Reuters “Hungary is no longer a democracy.” That’s the key phrase in the European...

      UN: New Rights Chief Should Speak Out for All Victims

      Click to expand Image United Nations Headquarters building in Manhattan, New York City, on December 21, 2021. © 2021 Sergi Reboredo / VWPics via AP Images (New York) – The United Nations secretary-general’s nominee for high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, should be a principled and outspoken advocate for all victims of abuses...

      Forcible Transfer of Ukrainians to Russia

      Click to expand Image A bus full of Ukrainians being transferred to Taganrog, Russia from the “DNR” on February 20, 2022. © 2022 ANDREY BORODULIN/AFP via Getty Images (Kyiv, September 1, 2022) – Russian and Russian-affiliated forces have been forcibly transferring Ukrainian civilians, including those fleeing hostilities, to the Russian Federation...

      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,...