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May 13, 2024
Iraq: Looming Camp Closures in Kurdistan
Displaced Sinjar Residents Imperiled as Compensation, Reconstruction Stalls
(Beirut) – The planned closure of displaced people’s camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) by a July 30 deadline will imperil the rights of many camp residents from the northern Sinjar district, Human Rights Watch said today.Sinjar…
May 12, 2024
UK Football Regulator Should Not Give Abusers Blank Check
Time for UK to Show State-Sponsored “Sportswashing” the Red Card
A new Football Governance Bill currently being debated in the United Kingdom’s parliament will establish a much-needed independent regulator for English football. It is being established, following years of rising financial inequality…
May 10, 2024
With Pause, US Joins Other States Stopping Arms Transfers to Israel
Countries Providing Weapons Risk Complicity in Grave Abuses
This week, United States President Joe Biden announced that his administration has “held up” at least one shipment of 3,500 bombs and artillery shells to Israel, saying the US wouldn’t transfer certain weapons to Israel if it proceeded…
May 10, 2024
School Officials Should Protect Trans Youth, Not “Out” Them
Transgender youth from California to Alabama are under threat due to a growing trend to pass policies mandating that school staff—and in some cases, any government employee—disclose to their parents if a student identifies as transgender. This…
May 10, 2024
Germany: British-Palestinian Doctor Denied Schengen Entry
Reported Ban Risks Undermining German Commitment to Free Expression, Assembly
(London, May 10, 2024) – Germany’s government needs to explain publicly if it has imposed a Schengen-wide entry ban on a prominent British-Palestinian surgeon and academic, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, and, if so, the reasons why, Human Rights Watch…
May 9, 2024
Nigerian Journalist’s Detention Threatens Press Freedom
Immediately Release Daniel Ojukwu if No Charges Brought
Journalists and human rights activists in Nigeria are protesting the arrest and detention of Daniel Ojukwu, a reporter at the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, who went missing in Lagos on May 1. He was later discovered to be in police…
May 9, 2024
Anti-Loitering Laws Will Not Help California Fight Human Trafficking
Reinstating Abusive Bans Would Harm Marginalized Groups
In January 2023, California removed “loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution” from the state’s penal code. It was a victory for transgender people, Black communities, trafficking survivors, sex workers…
May 9, 2024
Ethiopia: Joint Submission to the Universal Periodic Review
Submitted with Physicians for Human Rights in April 2024 for Ethiopia's 4th Periodic Review
INTRODUCTIONEthiopia's human rights situation deteriorated sharply since its last UPR on May 14, 2019.[1] Since then, government forces, militias, and armed groups have been committing widespread abuses with impunity, resulting in grave violations…
May 9, 2024
Q&A: War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing in West Darfur
1. Human Rights Watch released a new report on abuses by the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan against people in West Darfur’s capital during 2023. What were the key findings?In its new report, “The Massalit Will Not Come Home,” Human Rights Watch…
May 9, 2024
Interview: “I Didn’t Think I Would Survive This”
Fleeing Ethnic Violence in El Geneina, West Darfur, Sudan
As a child in West Darfur, Jamal Abdallah Khamis, a 29-year-old ethnic Massalit man, grew up surrounded by violence. He survived the ethnic cleansing campaign perpetrated by Sudanese government forces and their allied militias, known as the “…
May 9, 2024
Georgia: ‘Foreign Influence’ Bill Threatens Rights
Reject Measure; End Police Violence
(Berlin, May 9, 2024) – The Georgian parliament’s introduction of a bill obliging certain nongovernmental groups and media outlets to register as “organizations serving the interests of a foreign power” threatens fundamental rights in the…
May 9, 2024
Sudan: Ethnic Cleansing in West Darfur
(Nairobi, May 9, 2024) – Attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias in El Geneina, the capital city of Sudan’s West Darfur state, in April to November 2023, killed at least thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands as refugees…
May 9, 2024
Sudan: Ethnic Cleansing in West Darfur
Thousands Killed, Half Million Remain Displaced
Attacks by the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias in El Geneina, capital of Sudan’s West Darfur state, killed at least thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands as refugees.Committing serious violations that targeted the Massalit…
May 9, 2024
“The Massalit Will Not Come Home”
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May 8, 2024
China Forcibly Returns 60 Refugees to North Korea
Returnees at Risk of Torture, Forced Labor
The Chinese government forcibly returned about 60 North Korean refugees on April 26, putting them at grave risk of enforced disappearance, torture, sexual violence, wrongful imprisonment, forced labor, and execution.This round of forced returns…
May 8, 2024
Philippines: Supreme Court Rejects ‘Red-Tagging’
Marcos Should End Abusive Practice that Puts Lives at Risk
(Manila) – The Philippine Supreme Court issued a major ruling on May 8, 2024, declaring “red-tagging” a threat to people’s life, liberty, and security, Human Rights Watch said today. The Philippine government has been using red-tagging—accusing…
May 8, 2024
Vietnam: False Claims on Labor Rights
Seeking US Trade Preferences, Hanoi Insists Workers Can Organize
(Washington) – Vietnam is providing false or misleading information to the United States and other economic partners to secure or maintain preferential trade preferences, Human Rights Watch said today.The US Department of Commerce held a public…
