Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
EU: Falling Short of Protecting Those Most in Need
Click to expand Image People take part in a march on the 34th anniversary of the first democratic elections in postwar Poland, in Warsaw, Poland, June 4, 2023. © 2023 REUTERS/Kacper Pempel (Brussels, January 11, 2023) – The European Union and its member states renewed their commitments to uphold and protect rights in 2023, but they have...
Central Asia: Renewed Engagement Offers Rights Opportunities
Click to expand Image More than 1000 people gathered in Almaty, Kazakhstan on International Women’s Day to protest against sexual abuse and domestic violence, March 8, 2023. © 2023 ANTON KARLINER/SIPA/Shutterstock (Berlin, January 11, 2024) – Western governments are intensifying their relations with Central Asian countries against the...
Belarus: Crackdown Amid Growing Information Vacuum
Click to expand Image Activists gather in support of ‘Freedom to Political Prisoners of Belarus’ on Sunday, May 21, 2023, at the Market Square in Krakow, Poland . © 2023 Artur Widak via Getty Images (Vilnius, January 11, 2024) – Belarusian authorities carried out a widespread and systematic crackdown on dissent and on the spread of...
UK Government Severely Eroded Human Rights in 2023
Click to expand Image Protesters hold placards outside the UK’s Supreme Court as it rules that the UK Government’s Rwanda asylum plan is unlawful, London, United Kingdom, November 15, 2023. © 2023 Steve Taylor/SOPA Images/Sipa via AP Photo (London, January 11, 2024) – The United Kingdom government’s policies and practices both...
UN Member Countries Should Resist Defunding of Human Rights
Click to expand Image The Fifth Committee of the 77th General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, October 3, 2022. © 2022 Xie E/Xinhua via Getty Images Countries hostile toward United Nations human rights bodies have in recent years sought to hijack negotiations at the UN General Assembly’s Fifth Committee, which oversees...
Russia Forces Ukrainians in Occupied Areas into Military
Click to expand Image Conscripts called up for military service in the Russian army line up in Simferopol, Crimea, before their deployment. April 25, 2023. © 2023 Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters (Kyiv, December 20, 2023) – Russian authorities continue to conscript Ukrainian civilians in occupied areas or otherwise try to forcibly enlist them, including...
EU: Egypt Support Risks Complicity in Abuses
Click to expand Image EU foreign affairs high representative Josep Borrell (L) meets with Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry, July 13, 2021. © 2021 Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Brussels) – The European Union’s negotiations on an upgraded bilateral partnership with Egypt risk missing an opportunity to press for human rights...
Cluster Munitions: Peru Destroys Stockpiled Weapons
Click to expand Image Stockpiled cluster munitions and their submunitions being prepared for destruction. © 2022 Norwegian People’s Aid (New York, December 18, 2023) – Peru’s destruction of its stocks of cluster munitions is a major milestone for the international treaty banning the weapons, Human Rights Watch said today. Peru was the...
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,...
