Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Russian Authorities Increase Pressure on Crimean Human Rights Lawyer
Expand Law enforcement officials during the search in Emil Kurbedinov’s office, Bakhchysarai, Crimea, January 26, 2017. © 2017 Anton Naumlyik (RFE/RL) Few human rights lawyers are brave enough to work in Crimea these days. A recent letter from Russia’s Ministry of Justice to Crimean defense lawyer Emil Kurbedinov threatening his...
Important that Ukraine Respects Human Rights under New Martial Law
Expand Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko addresses the parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, May 12, 2016. © 2016 Reuters The Ukrainian parliament has voted to enforce the declaration of martial law in Ukraine’s 10 regions that border Russia, following clashes between the two countries’ forces earlier this week. According to numerous media...
Ukraine: Barriers to Free Movement for Older People
Expand An older man with a disability sits on an old luggage cart preparing to cross the Stanitsa Luhanska border point in Eastern Ukraine. With wheelchairs rarely available, older people and others with mobility disabilities may resort to crossing by carts or sleds pushed by strangers, for a fee. April 6, 2018. © 2018 John Wendle for Human...
Ukraine Shouldn’t Abandon Human Rights under New Martial Law
Expand Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko addresses the parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, May 12, 2016. © 2016 Reuters On November 26, the Ukrainian parliament voted in favor of enforcing the declaration of martial law in Ukraine’s 10 regions that border Russia, including Russia-occupied Crimea and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in...
The Blocked and the Bad: The Internet in Uzbekistan
HRW’s Steve Swerdlow speaks with VOA journalist Navbahor Imamova about her daily struggle with Uzbekistan’s notoriously troublesome online connection to the outside world. Both VOA and HRW (among many other news sites and human rights organizations) are often blocked in Uzbekistan, but it’s patchy, inconsistent and...
Germany: Put Rights on Agenda for Putin Meeting
Expand German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at the start of the first working session of the G20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, July 7 2017. © 2017 REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld, Pool (Berlin) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel should raise critical human rights issues when she meets with Russian President Vladimir...
Myths and Realities About Incendiary Weapons
Related Content Download the full report Incendiary weapons are among the cruelest weapons used in contemporary armed conflict. These weapons, which produce heat and fire through the chemical reaction of a flammable substance, cause excruciating burns and destroy homes and other civilian structures. They are regulated by Protocol III to the...
Ukraine: Address Attacks against Activists and Human Rights Defenders
More than 50 attacks on activists and human rights defenders in Ukraine have been recorded by local human rights organizations in just the last nine months, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Freedom House, and Frontline Defenders said today. Those under attack include people working to defend the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...
Ukraine: Ensure All Pensioners Have Access to Benefits
Expand Pensioners queuing in front of a state bank branch in government-controlled Stanitsa Luhanska. March 22, 2018. © 2018 Tanya Cooper (Kyiv) – Ukraine’s policy requiring pensioners from separatist-controlled parts of eastern Ukraine to leave and register as displaced persons in government-controlled areas to receive their pension is...
Ukrainian Detainee in Russia Urgently Needs Medical Help
Expand Pavlo Hryb during his court hearing in Rostov-On-Don, July 23, 2018. © 2018 Irina Romaliyskaya Pavlo Hryb’s ordeal began in January 2017, when he struck up an online friendship with Tatiana, then a 17-year-old from Sochi. Their friendship – which appeared to blossom into a romance – would eventually lead the 20-year-old Ukrainian man...
