Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
War in Eastern Ukraine Brings Lasting Misery for Elderly
The armed conflict that swept eastern Ukraine in 2014 and is still ongoing displaced close to a million people, who fled the fighting. Among those left behind, trapped in the war zone, were those too frail, too sick, or too poor to flee. Many spent months hiding from shelling in dark, damp basements, with little food and practically no medical...
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Language English Housing turned to rubble on Suvorova Street in Vuhlegirsk, eastern Ukraine. Alt Text 2016-5-eca-eastern-ukraine Copyright © 2016 Tanya Lokshina/Human Rights Watch Region / Country Europe/Central Asia Russia Ukraine …read more Source: Human Rights...
Wat doet Nederland voor veilige scholen wereldwijd?
“En dit is het computerlokaal!” zei de gymleraar enthousiast, terwijl hij zijn armen spreidde en ons een klaslokaal toonde van school nummer 4 in de stad Krasnohorivka, in het oosten van Oekraïne. Ik keek rond en kon een verbaasde blik niet onderdrukken. Ik zag geen computers. Maar dat niet alleen. Er stonden zelfs geen bureaus of stoelen. Het...
Netherlands Moves World Toward Safer Wartime Schools
“And this is the computer room!” exclaimed the jovial sports teacher, throwing his arms out wide as we entered a classroom at School Number Four in the town of Krasnohorivka in eastern Ukraine. I looked around the classroom, confused. Not only were there no computers, there were not even desks or chairs. The room was bare. A group of teachers...
Dispatches: Kremlin Mopping Up the Remaining Dissenters in Crimea
Russia is tightening the screws on critics of its actions in Crimea. Expand Russian security forces attempt to block Crimean Tatars trying to cross a checkpoint connecting Crimea to the rest of Ukraine, to attend a meeting. …read more Source: Human Rights...
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Language English Russian security forces attempt to block Crimean Tatars trying to cross a checkpoint connecting Crimea to the rest of Ukraine, to attend a meeting. Alt Text Russian security forces attempt to block Crimean Tatars trying to cross a checkpoint connecting Crimea to the rest of Ukraine, to attend a meeting. Copyright © 2014 Reuters...
UN Human Rights Council: Interactive Dialogue on High Commissioner’s oral update on Ukraine
Statement delivered under Item 10Human Rights Watch welcomes the continued reporting by the OHCHR on the human rights situation in Ukraine. We deeply regret that OHCHR, as well as the OSCE, Council of Europe, NGOs and independent journalists, were denied access or had restricted access to Crimea, which has made it very difficult to conduct human...
Россия: Украинской летчице Надежде Савченко вынесен приговор
Правосудие скомпрометировано несправедливым судом Expand Надежда Савченко в стеклянной клетке во время чтения приговора в Донецком городском суде, Ростовская область, Россия. 21 марта 2016 г. …read more Source: Human Rights...
Russia: Ukrainian Pilot Convicted
Justice Marred by Unfair Trial Expand Nadezhda Savchenko looks out from a glass defendant’s cage during a verdict hearing at a court in the southern border town of Donetsk in Rostov region, Russia, March 21, 2016. …read more Source: Human Rights...
Nadezhda Savchenko
Language English Nadezhda Savchenko looks out from a glass defendant’s cage during a verdict hearing at a court in the southern border town of Donetsk in Rostov region, Russia, March 21, 2016. Alt Text Nadezhda Savchenko looks out from a glass-walled cage during a verdict hearing at a court in the southern border town of Donetsk in Rostov...
