Peru's military and police likely carried out extrajudicial or arbitrary killings and committed other egregious abuses against demonstrators and bystanders during protests from December 2022 through February 2023, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The abuses occurred against the backdrop of deteriorating democratic institutions, corruption, impunity for past abuses, and persistent inequality.

Protesters and bystanders killed in Peru during demonstrations between December 11, 2022 to March 21, 2023 

In this Twitter Space, HRW and partners discuss how we can: revive forests by empowering local communities, ensure women have equal participation in natural resource management, and ground conservation in Indigenous rights. With Luciana Téllez, Richard Pearshouse, Bimbika Sijapati Basnett, and Quinn Manson Buchwald, ahead

Independence, Legal Aid, Appeals Rights Needed to Provide Effective Remedy

  This is a brief overview of Incendiary Weapons and their effects on populations and individuals, including their global use.

Nearly 2 Years On, International Basketball Association Has Yet to Take Action

Tirana Hassan's statement as the new Executive Director of Human Rights Watch

42,000 foreigners, most of them children, remain stranded in life-threatening conditions in Syria. Letta Tayler, Raheema Khan, and Anthony Gale discuss the plight of detained ISIS suspects and relatives in this Twitter Space.

Russian forces used a large air-delivered munition on an apartment building on March 9, 2022, in Izium, eastern Ukraine, in an attack that killed at least 44 civilians and violated the laws of war. This new web report uses survivor testimony, photos, videos, and 3D modeling of the building at 2 Pershotravneva Street to show the devastating effects of the attack.