Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Statement to the Convention on Conventional Weapons Annual Meeting of High Contracting Parties
Thank you Mr. PresidentAhead of this meeting, Human Rights Watch released a 28-page report, Beyond Burning, detailing how incendiary weapons, including white phosphorus, have been used in four armed conflicts in the past year, endangering civilian lives and livelihoods:Since October 2023, the Israeli military has used airburst, ground-launched...
Statement to Annual Meeting of Convention on Conventional Weapons Annual High Contracting Parties
Thank you Mr. PresidentAhead of this meeting, Human Rights Watch released a 28-page report, Beyond Burning, detailing how incendiary weapons, including white phosphorus, have been used in four armed conflicts in the past year, endangering civilian lives and livelihoods:Since October 2023, the Israeli military has used airburst, ground-launched...
Incendiary Weapons: New Use Calls for Immediate Action
Click to expand Image An Israeli 155mm artillery projectile containing white phosphorus being airburst low over al-Bustan, a village in Lebanon near the border with Israel, October 15, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File Countries concerned by incendiary weapons’ severe physical, psychological, socioeconomic, and environmental harm...
Ukraine: New Law Raises Religious Freedom Concerns
Click to expand Image A Ukrainian flag in the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Kozelets, Chernihivska region, on May 14, 2022 ©2022 Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP (Kyiv, October 30, 2024) – Ukraine’s new law banning religious organizations with ties to the Russian Orthodox Church is overly broad and...
UN Human Rights Council Should Renew Expert Monitor on Russia
Click to expand Image Defendants Alexander Dotsenko (L) and Anastasia Dyudyayeva, in a courtroom hearing accused of incitement to terrorism for leaving anti-war notes in a supermarket, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 18, 2024. © 2024 Andrei Bok/SOPA Images/Sipa via AP Photo Russia’s human rights situation has been deteriorating for years, but...
UN: Reject Saudi Bid for Human Rights Council Seat
Click to expand Image UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, February 26, 2024. © 2024 Janine Schmitz/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (New York) – United Nations member countries should reject Saudi Arabia’s bid for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council because of the government’s widespread human rights violations, including possible...
Biden Administration Doubles Down on Harmful Asylum Rules
Click to expand Image A man seeking asylum in the US uses his phone to access the US Customs and Border Protection CBP One application to request an appointment at a land port of entry to the US, outside a shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, January 12, 2023. © 2023 REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez An asylum regulation announced by the administration of...
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...
