Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
US Landmine Transfers Contravene Long-Standing Policy
Click to expand Image The International Campaign to Ban Landmines holds a demonstration during the Mine Ban Treaty’s Fifth Review Conference in Siem Reap, Cambodia on November 26, 2024 to protest a United States decision to transfer antipersonnel landmines. © 2024, International Campaign to Ban Landmines. (Washington, DC, December 11, 2024)...
Ukraine Parliament Adopts Bill on Legal Status of CRSV Survivors
Click to expand Image Artwork by the Ukrainian artist Julia Tveritina to raise awareness for the victims of sexual violence, at an art center in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 19, 2024. © 2024 Derek Gatopoulos/AP Photo Ukraine’s parliament has taken a critically important step towards providing survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) with...
Ukraine: Flawed Legislation on Collaboration
Click to expand Image A statue of Themis, the Greek goddess of justice, near Kyiv’s Court of Appeal. © 2024 Human Rights Watch Some provisions of Ukraine’s anti-collaboration legislation make it possible to criminally prosecute Ukrainian civilians for legitimate activities essential to civilian life in occupied areas.These provisions...
Killer Robots: UN Vote Should Spur Treaty Negotiations
Click to expand Image The United Nations General Assembly hashtag #UNGA at UN Headquarters in New York City. ©2024 Ogaga Blessing for Stop Killer Robots (New York, December 5, 2024) – The record number of countries voting in favor of the second-ever United Nations General Assembly resolution on lethal autonomous weapons systems, or “killer...
EU Should Reaffirm Support for ICC Arrests
Click to expand Image European Union flags wave in the wind as pedestrians walk by EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File After the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants against Israeli leaders and a Hamas official on November 21, European Union foreign policy chief Josep...
Proposed US Landmine Transfers Gravely Threaten Civilians
Click to expand Image A pile of shoes during the annual demonstration by NGO Humanity and Inclusion denouncing antipersonnel landmines and cluster munitions in Lyon on September 20, 2014. © 2014 Getty Images (Washington, DC, November 20, 2024) – The Biden administration’s decision to transfer internationally banned antipersonnel landmines...
UN: Approve Next Steps on Crimes Against Humanity Treaty
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) – United Nations member countries should vote to launch formal negotiations for a treaty that would prevent and punish crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said today.The...
Landmines: New Casualties Show Need to Support Treaty Ban
Click to expand Image Mine clearance equipment on display at a Cambodia Mine Action Center training held in Preytotoeung village, Battambang province, Cambodia, on January 19, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (Bangkok, November 20, 2024) – The international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines risks being undermined by new use by countries...
A Thousand Days of War in Ukraine
November 19 marks 1,000 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This grim milestone highlights the immense suffering the war has brought to Ukrainian civilians in particular as a result of the war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by Russian forces.Russia’s war has killed over 11,700 Ukrainian...
Prominent Russian Rights Defender Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison
Click to expand Image Tanya Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch, with Sergey Lukashevsky, director of Moscow’s Sakharov Center, at the Andrei Sakharov Anniversary Conference in May 2021. © 2021 Andrew Rushailo-Arno Today, a Russian court sentenced one of my dearest friends, Sergei Lukashevsky, to eight...
