Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
UN: Deny Rights Council Seats to Major Violators
Click to expand Image A view of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters, October 1, 2018. …read more Source:: Human Rights...
Harsh Sentences for Alleged Hizb-ut-Tahrir Followers in Russia
Click to expand Image Supreme court appeal hearing held via videoconference, September 2020. …read more Source:: Human Rights...
Russian Repression a Persistent Reality in Crimea
Click to expand Image Crimean Solidarity activists in the defendant’s box during sentencing, September 16, 2020. …read more Source:: Human Rights...
Ukraine: Dozens Stranded in a War Zone
Expand Border guards on Checkpoint in Hnutove village, near Mariupol, Ukraine. © 2018 Getty Images (Kyiv) – Ukrainian authorities, in response to the threat of COVID-19, shut down all movement across the line of contact in eastern Ukraine, but they have not made adequate provisions for those who may be stranded as a result, Human …read more...
“We Live Like We Are Homeless”
“I am grateful for help. But sometimes it’s hard … The attitude here is: if you want to be left in peace, go back home. But where is home? Everyone who could, who had a place to go, had already left.” The ongoing war in eastern Ukraine has divided people’s lives there into “before” and “after.” For Iryna, “before”...
Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child’s review of Ukraine
We write in advance of the 87th pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child relating to Ukraine’s compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This submission focuses on the protection of education during armed conflict. Related Content Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child’s review of...
Ukraine: People with Limited Mobility Can’t Access Pensions
Expand People stand near an ATM, located near the contact line between Russia-backed armed groups and Ukrainian troops in Mayorsk, Ukraine. Older persons in non-government controlled areas have to cross the line to collect their pensions in person, effectively stripping away pensions from those who are immobile. July 4, 2019. © 2019 REUTERS/Gleb...
Crimea Bans for Journalists Are Choking the Truth
Expand Taras Ibragimov in Simperopol, Crimea, in May 2019. © 2019 Olexandra Yefymenko Russian authorities barred an independent Ukrainian journalist, Taras Ibragimov, from entering Crimea last weekend and issued him a 34-year-ban. Ibragimov had traveled regularly to Crimea the past four years, and in May 2019 joined me in Crimea as a...
Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on Ukraine
This submission relates to the review of Ukraine under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. It focuses on discrimination against internally displaced persons (IDPs) in receiving pensions, poor and dangerous conditions at border crossings and the protection of students, teachers, and schools during armed conflict....
Ukraine
Hostilities in eastern Ukraine entered their sixth year and continued to put civilians’ lives and well-being at risk, even as absolute numbers of civilian casualties dropped. Former comedian Volodymyr Zelensky won the presidential election in May. Snap parliamentary elections in July delivered his party, Servant of the People, a...
