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      In Praise of Competitive UN Elections

      Click to expand Image Valentin Rybakov, permanent representative of Belarus to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council meeting on threats to international peace and security, New York, US, March 31, 2023. © 2023 Manuel Elías/UN Photo Next month’s United Nations Security Council elections show why competition is important. UN...

      Russia Threatens Ukrainians Who Refuse Russian Citizenship

      Click to expand Image A newly built apartment block, part of Russia’s efforts to swiftly reconstruct severely damaged Mariupol, occupied by Russia since May 2022, February 15, 2023. © 2023 Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters On April 27, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree establishing a simplified procedure for issuing Russian...

      Human Rights Watch Wins Two Webby Awards

      (New York) – Human Rights Watch has won two 2023 Webby Awards, the leading international prize honoring excellence on the internet. One award is for a series of social media videos that draw attention to human rights abuses in Russia’s war in Ukraine. The second Webby is for an interactive campaign about online learning products that may...

      Torture Trial in US Highlights Gaps in Law

      Click to expand Image The US Department of Justice building in Washington, DC, January 12, 2023. © 2023 Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via AP Photo The trial of a private United States citizen accused of torture as part of an alleged unlawful firearms manufacturing scheme in Iraq opened in the state of Pennsylvania yesterday. It is only the second...

      Russia: Law Targets International Criminal Court

      Click to expand Image Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin addresses the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s Parliament, in Moscow, Russia. July 22, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko (Berlin, May 5, 2023) – Russia’s adoption on April 28, 2023, of a law criminalizing assistance to foreign and international bodies is an...

      Top Russian Activist Indicted

      Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov and his lawyer, Ekaterina Tertukhina, at the prosecutor’s office in Moscow when they received his indictment. © 2023 Memorial Last weekend, Russian authorities moved one step closer towards potentially locking up Oleg Orlov, one of Russia’s most prominent and outspoken human rights defenders. On April...

      Uzbekistan/Germany: Make Human Rights Key Component of Talks

      Click to expand Image President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev delivers a speech at the 46th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on February 22, 2021. © Government of Uzbekistan (Berlin, April 28, 2023) – German government officials should ensure that talks with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan during...

      34th Human Rights Watch Film Festival, New York

      Click to expand Image Seven Winters in Tehran. Photo: Courtesy of Made in Germany. (New York) – The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 34th year, will present a full edition of 10 groundbreaking new films nationwide in the United States, from May 31 to June 11, 2023. The New York festival will be back with a full program of in-person...

      Pope Francis Should Stress Equal Treatment of Refugees During Hungary Visit

      Click to expand Image Police patrol the Hungarian-Serbian border barrier near Kelebia, Hungary, December 15, 2022. © 2022 Marton Monus/Reuters Pope Francis’ visit to Hungary from April 28-30 is an opportunity to call out the Hungarian government’s discriminatory practices towards refugees and migrants. The Pope has been vocal on...

      Iran Court Issues Sentences in Downing of Ukraine Flight PS752

      Click to expand Image Hundreds attended a candlelight vigil at Mel Lastman Square in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 08, 2023 as Iranian-Canadians marked 3rd anniversary of the downing of Ukrainian Airlines Flight PS752. © 2023 Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto/AP Images On April 16, after a trial lacking any transparency, the Tehran...