Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
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...
Lithuania: Don’t Leave Global Ban on Cluster Munitions
Click to expand Image Lithuania’s representative signing the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Oslo, Norway on December 3, 2008. © 2008 Gunnar Mjaugedal/Catchlight.no (Berlin) – Lithuania’s parliament should reject a government proposal to withdraw from the 2008 treaty banning cluster munitions, Human Rights Watch said today. If...
Russia’s July 8 Attack on a Children’s Hospital in Ukraine
Click to expand Image Emergency services work at the site of Okhmatdyt children’s hospital hit by Russian missiles, in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 8, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka (Kyiv) – Russian forces’ strikes on multiple cities in Ukraine on July 8, 2024, killed at least 42 civilians, including five children, and injured...
New ICC Warrants Issued for Ukraine Crimes
Click to expand Image Former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, right, and Russian Chief of General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov attend a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with commanders of military districts at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, May 15, 2024. © 2024 Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo New...
In Russia, a Trial in Name Only
Click to expand Image Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, December 14, 2023. © 2023 Dmitry Serebryakov/AP Photo On Wednesday, a court process will be opened in the Siberian city of Yekaterinburg against American Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested in...
Respecting Rights in the Response to Militant Attacks in Dagestan
Click to expand Image The aftermath of an armed militant attack in Makhachkala, Dagestan, in southern Russia, on June 23, 2024. © 2024 Aleksandr Chernykh/Kommersant/Sipa via AP Photo On June 23, armed militants—apparently supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS)—attacked the two largest cities in Dagestan, in Russia’s North Caucasus region....
Increased Attacks on Education During War
Click to expand Image The destroyed playground of a kindergarten in the town of Kupiansk, Kharkivska region, Ukraine, May 26, 2023. © 2023 Serbei Bobok/AFP via Getty Images Attacks on education and military use of schools during armed conflict rose by an alarming 20 percent in 2022 and 2023 compared with the previous two years, according to a new...
Attack on Kazakhstan Journalist in Ukraine
Click to expand Image The scene of the shooting of Aidos Sadykov in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 18, 2024. © 2024 t.me/UA_National_Police (Berlin, June 21, 2024) – Ukrainian and Kazakh authorities should carry out an effective investigation into the shooting of an independent Kazakh journalist and former member of a Kazakhstan political opposition group...
Attacks on Education in War Surge Globally
Click to expand Image A 14-year-old girl looks at her old school, which was damaged by conflict, in Dara’a Albalad, Syria, on February 7, 2022. © UNICEF/UN0635253/Shahan This report was authored by a partner organization, the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, and is distributed by Human Rights Watch.(New York) – About 6,000...
