Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Russia: Inadequate Response to Antisemitism in North Caucasus
Click to expand Image A mob at an airfield of the airport in Makhachkala, Russia, where they had come to confront Jewish passengers arrived on a flight from Tel Aviv, October 30, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo (Berlin, November 9, 2023) – Russian authorities have failed to respond adequately to a series of antisemitic acts, some of them violent, in...
Ukraine: War’s Toll on Schools, Children’s Future
Click to expand Image The destroyed playground of a kindergarten in the town of Kupiansk, Kharkivska region, Ukraine, May 26, 2023. © 2023 Serbei Bobok/AFP via Getty Images Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has devastated schools and kindergartens throughout the country. Since February 2022, over 3,790 educational facilities have been...
Students, Schools Under Attack Despite Landmark UN Resolution
Click to expand Image A view of a damaged classroom in Avdiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, November 7, 2022. © 2022 Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters Two years ago, the United Nations Security Council adopted a groundbreaking resolution to safeguard education during wartime. The resolution called on governments to both prevent and address attacks on...
Countries Should Back ICC Investigation on Israel-Palestine
Click to expand Image The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, November 7, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File Horrific crimes are being committed with devastating consequences for civilians in the escalating hostilities between Israel and Palestinian armed groups. Impunity for past abuses has clearly...
Top Russian Human Rights Defender Convicted for “Discrediting” the Armed Forces
Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov, co-chair of Memorial Human Rights Defense Center, speaks to the media at a courtroom prior to a session in Moscow, Russia, June 8, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Today, a Moscow court found Oleg Orlov, a leading Russian human rights defender, guilty on on charges of “discrediting” the military by...
Polish Government Ups Anti-Migrant Rhetoric Ahead of Elections
Click to expand Image Polish border guards watch asylum seekers stuck at the Polish-Belarus border in Bialowieza, May 28, 2023. © 2023 Sipa via AP Images In a bid to legitimize its anti-migrant agenda, Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) is holding a national referendum on the same day as national elections on October 15. The...
Russia, China Unfit for UN’s Top Rights Body
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019 Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP (New York) – United Nations member countries should deny Russia and China seats on the UN Human Rights Council in...
Germany Should Keep Focus on Rights in Central Asia Talks
Click to expand Image German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (R) welcomes Shavkat Mirsiyoyev, President of Uzbekistan, in front of the Chancellor’s Office in Berlin, Germany, May 2, 2023. © 2023 Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images On September 29, German chancellor Olaf Scholz will meet with the presidents of the five countries in...
Governments Should Step Up on Public Health Care Spending
Click to expand Image Surgical Technicians wash their hands after exiting an operating room at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, US on April 22, 2022. © 2022 Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images On Thursday, a high-level meeting of government officials will take place during the 78th session of the United Nations General...
Central Asia/US: Put Rights At Heart of Talks
Click to expand Image Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubaev, Tajikistan’s Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi, Turkmenistan’s Foreign Minister Rashid Meredow and Uzbekistan’s Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov participate...
