Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Refugees in the US Shouldn’t Pay the Price for Aid to Ukraine
Click to expand Image The Torrance County Detention Facility in Estancia, New Mexico, US, September 29, 2022. © 2023 Andres Leighton/AP Photo The Biden administration is reportedly considering accepting mandatory detention of asylum seekers, one of the demands of Republican Party lawmakers to “secure the border” in exchange for passing the...
Refugee Forum: Drop Bureaucratic Barriers to Education
Click to expand Image An empty classroom in a closed public school is seen in Beirut, Lebanon, March 2, 2023. © 2023 Hussein Malla/AP Photo (Geneva) – Countries participating in the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva should pledge to end bureaucratic barriers to education for refugee children, Human Rights Watch said today. In multiple countries,...
Yemen: Houthis Attack Civilian Ships
Click to expand Image The Galaxy Leader, a ship seized by the Houthi armed group on November 19, 2023, at a port on the Red Sea in Yemen’s Hodeidah governorate, November 22, 2023. © 2023 AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – The Houthi armed group that controls part of Yemen has targeted several commercial ships carrying civilian crews in the Red...
US Lawmakers Threaten the Right to Seek Asylum
Click to expand Image Migrants wait for their CBP One asylum appointment to cross into the US at the Chaparral pedestrian border in Tijuana, Mexico November 09, 2023. © 2023 Carlos Moreno/Sipa via AP Images Since when are human rights negotiable? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights enshrines the principle that “everyone has the right to...
Bringing Justice to Child Victims of War
Click to expand Image The overgrown playground of a residential institution for children in Kherson, Ukraine, where Russian forces allegedly took 46 children from, as seen on November 27, 2022. © 2022 Chris McGrath/Getty Images Children forcibly deported in Ukraine. Boys and girls killed in Israel/Palestine. Girls raped in Darfur, in western...
Israel: Strikes on Journalists in Lebanon Apparently Deliberate
Read a text description of this video VO: On October 13, 2023, Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed Issam Abdullah, a Reuters journalist. The attack injured six other journalists from Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP), and Al Jazeera. SOUNDBITE: Dylan Collins AFP Journalist I will always remember his, his wit and his humor. He was the...
EU Commission Highlights Disability Rights in Ukraine
Click to expand Image A child walks down a hallway of a residential institution where he is staying, April 8, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. © 2022 Joe Raedle/Getty Images As Russia’s war against Ukraine takes an enormous toll on civilians, the European Commission has identified the rights of people with disabilities as one of the priorities for...
ICC: Combat Double Standards for Justice
Click to expand Image Seventeenth session of the International Criminal Court’s Assembly of States Parties in The Hague, Netherlands, December 2018. © 2018 Syd Boyd/Coalition for the International Criminal Court (New York) – Member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should step up their political, practical and financial...
Five Anti-War Price Tags, Seven Years in Russian Prison
Click to expand Image Sasha Skochilenko stands behind bars in the court room at the Vasileostrovsky district court in St. Petersburg, Russia, November 16, 2023. © 2023 Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo On Thursday, a Russian court sentenced artist Aleksandra Skochilenko to seven years in prison for replacing supermarket price tags with information about...
Landmines: New Use Despite 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 Emil Gravesen/DCA Russia, Myanmar, and Ukraine have used antipersonnel landmines in the past year, and armed groups used them in at least five countries, according to...
