Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Belarus Can’t Mask Its Ongoing Political Repression
Click to expand Image A collage of photos portrays some of the hundreds of political prisoners currently detained in Belarus, displayed during a demonstration in Warsaw, Poland, May 18, 2024. © 2024 Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via AP Photo Between July and September 2024, Aliaksandr Lukashenka signed four presidential decrees pardoning some of those...
UN: World Leaders Should Act to End Rights Crises
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) – World leaders gathering for the United Nations General Assembly’s annual General Debate should call for action to end the global human rights crises, Human Rights Watch...
Germany-Central Asia Summit Should Promote Rights
Click to expand Image Chancellor Olaf Scholz (C) and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock receive the heads of state for the Central Asia Summit at the Chancellery in the International Hall, Berlin, September 29, 2023. © 2023 Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Olaf Scholz will make history on September 17 as the first German chancellor to...
Hungary: Ukrainian Refugees Losing Housing
Click to expand Image A Ukrainian woman of Roma ethnicity sits on a chair on the street, after losing access to subsidized accommodation in Komárom-Esztergom county, Hungary, August 21, 2024. © 2024 REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo (Budapest) – The Hungarian government has issued a draconian decree in breach of EU law that cancels state funded shelter for...
Iran: Arrests of Family Members of Protesters
Click to expand Image A display of photos that includes protesters executed by the Iranian government at a candlelight vigil honoring Mahsa Zhina Amini and the demonstrators, in Washington DC, September 16, 2023. © 2023 Ali Khaligh/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – Iranian authorities have reportedly arrested on false charges,...
Cluster Munitions: New Use, Transfers Test International Ban
Click to expand Image Stockpiled cluster munitions and their submunitions being prepared for destruction. © 2022 Norwegian People’s Aid (Geneva, September 9, 2024) – The international treaty banning cluster munitions is making demonstrable progress, but is being tested by new use and transfers of cluster munitions by countries that have not...
Deadly Russian Attacks on Lviv’s Historic District
Click to expand Image Lyceum No. 5 on Kokorudza Street in Lviv, Ukraine, damaged during a Russian air attack on September 4, 2024. © 2024 Lviv City Council/https://city-adm.lviv.ua In Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, today is a day of mourning.On September 4 at about 6 a.m., Russian air attacks struck the city’s historic district,...
Mongolia: Arrest Putin
Click to expand Image Permanent premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. © 2019 Peter Dejong/AP Mongolia should deny entry to Russian President Vladimir Putin or arrest him if he enters the country, Human Rights Watch said today. The Kremlin announced that Putin is planning to travel to Mongolia on September 3,...
Ukraine Moves to Join ICC
Click to expand Image Ukrainian Parliament during a session in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 21, 2024. © 2024 Andrii Nesterenko/AP Photo Ukraine is taking key steps toward becoming a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a milestone in advancing global justice. This comes after years of campaigning by national and international human rights...
Russia: Repressive Laws Used to Crush Civic Freedoms
Click to expand Image © 2024 Private The Russian government’s dismantling of civic freedoms since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 is a dramatic escalation of its sustained assault on fundamental rights spanning more than a decade.Hundreds of people have been jailed or imprisoned under new, repressive laws. Discussion...
