Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Setting the Record Straight on Chechnya’s Anti-Gay Purge
Today, the European Court of Human Rights handed down a ruling in the case of Maxim Lapunov, the only victim of Chechnya’s vile 2017 anti-gay purge who dared seek justice for the torture he suffered at the hands of local law enforcement. The court found Lapunov was “detained and subjected to ill-treatment by State agents,” which “amounted...
Alarming Increase in Attacks on Education Worldwide
Click to expand Image On August 17, 2022, a playground sits empty in front of a destroyed school in Kharkiv, Ukraine. © UNICEF/UN0689537/Gilbertson – Highway Child This report was authored by a partner organization, the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, and is distributed by Human Rights Watch. (New York) – More than 3,000...
Russia Denies Its Widespread Use of Cluster Munitions
Click to expand Image Remnants of dozens of Smerch and Uragan cluster munition rockets collected by Ukraine’s State Emergency Service from Kharkiv in April 2022. © 2022 Sergey Bobok, AFP There has been strong global media interest in the latest annual report on cluster munitions, “Cluster Munition Monitor 2023,” which Human Rights Watch...
Cluster Munitions: New Use, Transfers Challenge Total Ban
Click to expand Image People assess the damage caused by the Syrian-Russian military alliance’s cluster munition attack on the Maram camp for displaced people near the village of Kafr Jalis in Idlib governorate, northwestern Syria, on 6 November 2022. © 2022, Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images Cluster munition attacks killed or wounded at least...
Cluster Munitions: South Sudan Accedes to Global Ban
Click to expand Image Clearance operator from DCA clearing an area suspected of being contaminated by explosive remnants of war in Pajok, South Sudan in February 2023. © 2023 Rasmus Gravesen/DCA (Washington, DC, August 7, 2023) – South Sudan acceded to the international Convention on Cluster Munitions on August 3, 2023, the 112th country to do...
Russia: Grim New Sentence for Alexey Navalny
Click to expand Image Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a TV screen as he appears in a video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service from the colony in Melekhovo, Vladimir region, during a hearing at the Russian Supreme Court in Moscow, Russia, June 22, 2023. © 2023 Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo (Berlin,...
Ukraine: Apparent Russian Cluster Munition Attack
Click to expand Image A man rides past a place where a woman was killed by an apparent Russian cluster munition strike in Lyman, Donetska region, Ukraine on July 8, 2023. © 2023 STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images (Kyiv, August 4, 2023) – Nine civilians were killed and more than a dozen injured in an apparent Russian cluster munition attack on July 8,...
Ukraine: Apparent Russian Cluster Munitions Attack
(Kyiv, August 1, 2023) – Nine civilians were killed and more than a dozen injured in an apparent[IS1] Russian cluster munition attack on June 8, 2023, in a residential district of the Ukrainian town of Lyman, Human Rights Watch said today. …read more Source:: Human Rights...
Russia Bans ‘TV Rain’ for Critical Reporting
Click to expand Image Tikhon Dzyadko, editor-in-chief of TV-Rain, at their newsroom in Moscow in August 2021. On July 25, 2023, Russia’s prosecutor general declared the station to be an “undesirable” organization. © 2021 REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina This week, Russian authorities banned TV Rain, a prominent independent online broadcaster, as...
One Year Since Death of Ukrainian POWs in Explosion
Click to expand Image An interior view of the damaged barrack in Olenivka prison in Russian-occupied territory of Donetska region where an explosion on July 29 killed 50 and injured 100 Ukrainian POWs, August 10, 2022. © 2022 Alexander Ermochenko/REUTERS On July 29, 2022, an explosion in one of the barracks of Olenivka prison in Russia-occupied...
