Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Hungary: Ukrainian Refugees Losing Housing
Click to expand Image A Ukrainian woman of Roma ethnicity sits on a chair on the street, after losing access to subsidized accommodation in Komárom-Esztergom county, Hungary, August 21, 2024. © 2024 REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo (Budapest) – The Hungarian government has issued a draconian decree in breach of EU law that cancels state funded shelter for...
Iran: Arrests of Family Members of Protesters
Click to expand Image A display of photos that includes protesters executed by the Iranian government at a candlelight vigil honoring Mahsa Zhina Amini and the demonstrators, in Washington DC, September 16, 2023. © 2023 Ali Khaligh/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – Iranian authorities have reportedly arrested on false charges,...
Cluster Munitions: New Use, Transfers Test International Ban
Click to expand Image Stockpiled cluster munitions and their submunitions being prepared for destruction. © 2022 Norwegian People’s Aid (Geneva, September 9, 2024) – The international treaty banning cluster munitions is making demonstrable progress, but is being tested by new use and transfers of cluster munitions by countries that have not...
Deadly Russian Attacks on Lviv’s Historic District
Click to expand Image Lyceum No. 5 on Kokorudza Street in Lviv, Ukraine, damaged during a Russian air attack on September 4, 2024. © 2024 Lviv City Council/https://city-adm.lviv.ua In Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, today is a day of mourning.On September 4 at about 6 a.m., Russian air attacks struck the city’s historic district,...
Mongolia: Arrest Putin
Click to expand Image Permanent premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. © 2019 Peter Dejong/AP Mongolia should deny entry to Russian President Vladimir Putin or arrest him if he enters the country, Human Rights Watch said today. The Kremlin announced that Putin is planning to travel to Mongolia on September 3,...
Ukraine Moves to Join ICC
Click to expand Image Ukrainian Parliament during a session in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 21, 2024. © 2024 Andrii Nesterenko/AP Photo Ukraine is taking key steps toward becoming a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a milestone in advancing global justice. This comes after years of campaigning by national and international human rights...
Russia: Repressive Laws Used to Crush Civic Freedoms
Click to expand Image © 2024 Private The Russian government’s dismantling of civic freedoms since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 is a dramatic escalation of its sustained assault on fundamental rights spanning more than a decade.Hundreds of people have been jailed or imprisoned under new, repressive laws. Discussion...
Lithuania: Don’t Leave Global Ban on Cluster Munitions
Click to expand Image Lithuania’s representative signing the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Oslo, Norway on December 3, 2008. © 2008 Gunnar Mjaugedal/Catchlight.no (Berlin) – Lithuania’s parliament should reject a government proposal to withdraw from the 2008 treaty banning cluster munitions, Human Rights Watch said today. If...
Russia’s July 8 Attack on a Children’s Hospital in Ukraine
Click to expand Image Emergency services work at the site of Okhmatdyt children’s hospital hit by Russian missiles, in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 8, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka (Kyiv) – Russian forces’ strikes on multiple cities in Ukraine on July 8, 2024, killed at least 42 civilians, including five children, and injured...
New ICC Warrants Issued for Ukraine Crimes
Click to expand Image Former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, right, and Russian Chief of General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov attend a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with commanders of military districts at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, May 15, 2024. © 2024 Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo New...
