The Uzbek government should immediately allow an independent investigation into the enforced disappearance and death in prison of a human rights and opposition activist. On June 16, 2017, Nuraddin Jumaniyazov’s wife, Gulnora Rahmonova, reported that her husband had died in prison on December 31, 2016, from tuberculosis and diabetes-related complications.
Italy Should Direct Safe Rescues
Exploitation of Construction Workers on World Cup Sites in Russia
Afghan, Iranian Children Lack Status, Risk Child Labor
Civilians in both Ukrainian and Russia-backed separatists’ detention were subjected to serious abuses in 2016.
“What will happen to us?” “Will they fingerprint us?” was the constant refrain as we watched a human wave of asylum seekers and migrants from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan crossing the Serbia-Hungary border.
Interactive Photo Feature: Thousands of asylum-seekers, including many from war-torn Syria, arrive daily in Hungary, seeking a path to Germany and other Western European countries. Hungary has detained and at times refused to allow people to continue onwards to Western Europe, citing an EU regulation. As a result, thousands have been stranded at Budapest's Keleti train station. Human Rights Watch researchers interviewed scores. Here are their stories. >>
Although people with disabilities in Russia have seen improvements since the end of the Soviet era, they remain largely cut off from society.
