Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Turkey: Life Sentence for Rights Defender Osman Kavala
Click to expand Image Osman Kavala © 2017 Private (Istanbul) – The conviction on April 25, 2022 of the human rights defender Osman Kavala and his seven co-defendants is a shocking miscarriage of justice, Human Rights Watch said today. The Istanbul 13th Assize Court sentenced Kavala to life in prison without parole on charges of attempting to...
Kenneth Roth to Step Down at Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth speaks during an interview with Reuters in Geneva, Switzerland, April 9, 2018. © 2018 Reuters/Pierre Albouy (New York) – Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth has announced that he plans to step down at the end of August 2022, Human Rights Watch said today. Roth...
Urgently Help Ukraine Civilians Flee Mariupol
Click to expand Image A resident looks at an apartment building damaged during heavy fighting near the Illich Iron & Steel Works Metallurgical Plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, April 16, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov (Kyiv) – Russian forces now occupying most of Ukraine’s southeastern port city of Mariupol should ensure that...
Japan: Raise Rights on Southeast Asia Trip
Click to expand Image Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a press conference at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo, Japan, April 8, 2022. © 2022 Rodrigo Reyes Marin, Pool via AP (Tokyo) – Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida should press the governments of Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam to improve...
France: Crucial Need for Macron to Focus on Rights
Click to expand Image French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech after his election victory in Paris, April 24, 2022. © 2022 Sipa via AP Images (Paris) – It is crucial for President Emmanuel Macron to make human rights a priority of both his domestic and his foreign policy in his second term, Human Rights Watch said today. Based on...
Ukraine: Russian Forces’ Trail of Death in Bucha
Russian forces committed a litany of apparent war crimes during their occupation of Bucha, a town about 30 kilometers northwest of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, from March 4 to 31, 2022, Human Rights Watch said in a detailed report released today. Human Rights Watch researchers who worked in Bucha from April 4 to 10, days after Russian forces...
Refugees in Europe Need Mental Health Support
Click to expand Image Ukrainians who have fled the war wait outside an NGO-run center that helps refugees with urgent placement and documents on March 23, 2022 in Paris, France. © 2022 AP Photo/Francois Mori “If your mental health is not good, how are you supposed to move forward?”, said Rafi (not his real name), a young Afghan man who was...
UK Plan to Ship Asylum Seekers to Rwanda is Cruelty Itself
Click to expand Image British Home Secretary Priti Patel (L), and Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Vincent Biruta sign an agreement at the Kigali Convention Center in Kigali, Rwanda, April 14, 2022. © 2022 Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP via Getty Images Shirking its obligations to persons seeking protection at its shores,...
IMF/World Bank: Targeted Safety Net Programs Fall Short on Rights Protection
Click to expand Image A woman and her child receive relief goods distributed by a community service center in Kathmandu, Nepal on June 4, 2021. © 2021 Sipa USA via AP (Washington, DC, April 14, 2022) – Targeted social protection programs intended to cushion people from the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have only had limited success in...
Bulgaria: Free Online Textbooks for Ukrainian Refugees
Click to expand Image Refugee children from Ukraine at a temporary shelter in Krakow, Poland. March 15, 2022. © Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via AP (Brussels) – A Bulgarian firm has begun providing free access to online learning materials and textbooks for children who have fled Ukraine, Human Rights Watch said today. Other European telecommunications...
