Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Making Life a Little Easier on Ukraine’s Front Lines
November 29, 2018Video Ukraine: Barriers to Free Movement for Older People Older people who need to travel between the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine and government-controlled areas face arbitrary obstacles, including risks to their …read more Source: Human Rights...
Ukraine: Escalating Pressure on Crimean Tatars
Expand Law enforcement officials during the search in Emil Kurbedinov’s office, Bakhchysarai, Crimea, January 26, 2017. © 2017 Anton Naumlyik (RFE/RL) (Berlin) – Russia’s arrest on March 27 and 28, 2019 of 23 Crimean Tatar activists was an unprecedented move to intensify pressure on a group largely critical of Russia’s...
Q & A: Ukraine’s Presidential Election, A Human Rights Background
On March 31, Ukrainians will go to the polls to vote in the country’s second presidential elections since fighting began five years ago between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed armed groups. President Petro Poroshenko will face off against a record 43 other candidates for the post. Candidates have largely focused on the conflict in...
Ukraine: Rights Agenda for the Next President
Expand People wait at passport control after crossing the contact line between Russian-backed rebels and Ukrainian troops in Mayorsk, Ukraine, February 25, 2019. Many pensioners spend hours queuing, in cold, heat, rain or snow, to cross the line because they rely on their social benefits, only accessible on the government-controlled side. © 2019...
Ukraine: Human Rights Backsliding as Election Looms
Expand Anti-corruption activist Vitaliy Shabunin. © 2016 Private (Kyiv) – Attacks on activists and government critics proliferated in Ukraine during 2018, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2019. The Ukrainian government did little to prevent or punish the attacks or to stem rising violence against minority communities, including...
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...
