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March 18, 2024 News

Seek Victims’ Safe Release; Improve Protection for At-Risk Students, Communities

Various armed groups have kidnapped hundreds of people, including 287 schoolchildren, across northern Nigeria in a series of alarming attacks since late February. The kidnappings are the latest indication of Nigeria’s spiraling security crisis, as…
Children play at the LEA Primary and Secondary School Kuriga two days after 287 students were kidnapped, Kuriga, Kaduna State, Nigeria, March 9, 2024.
March 18, 2024 News

Native Advocates Propose a First Step to Survivor and Community Healing

From 1819 to 1969, the United States federal government funded and operated 408 known “Indian boarding schools” with the express intent to “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” The government systematically and forcibly removed Indigenous…
A makeshift memorial under a tree
March 18, 2024 News

Detention in Police Premises Notorious for Abuse Sends Chilling Message to Critics

“They held him there to send a message to the rest of us: be careful, or else.” A human rights activist from the Central African Republic said this to Human Rights Watch after Crépin Mboli Goumba, a prominent political opponent, was arrested and sent…
3 men stand smiling in a court room
March 18, 2024 News

Legal Guarantee for Free Education on the Agenda at the UN Human Rights Council

This year, at the United Nations’ top human rights body in Geneva, there are signs of a potential giant leap forward, with growing hopes for new legal recognition of every child’s right to free education, from pre-primary through secondary education…
A young girl in her pre-primary class in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In 2022, Uzbekistan hosted the World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education.
March 17, 2024 News

Government Targets Overseas Indians Opposing Ruling Party Policies

(New York) – Indian authorities are revoking visa privileges to overseas critics of Indian origin who have spoken out against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government’s policies, Human Rights Watch said today. Prime Minister Narendra…
Nitasha Kaul, professor at the University of Westminster in London, during an Asia, the Pacific and Nonproliferation Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, October 22, 2019.
March 17, 2024 News

Urge Action, Not Merely Expressions of Concern

On Wednesday, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi will travel to Australia to take part in the Australia-China Foreign and Strategic Dialogue, a longstanding format where they will discuss trade, security, and other bilateral and international issues.…
People seated around two tables opposite of each other
March 17, 2024 News

Cross-Border Counter-Smuggling Operations Kill Syrians

(Beirut) – Jordan should ensure accountability for airstrikes in southeast Syria that killed 10 people on January 18 and compensate the victims and their families, Human Rights Watch said today. The strikes, which killed women and children, appear to…
A Jordanian airstrike on January 18 on the town of Orman in the southern governorate of Sweida killed Dima, 5 (left) and Farah, 3, their parents Turki al-Halabi and Faten Abu Shahin, and three other relatives.
March 15, 2024 News

Dropped Charges Against Former Somali Region President Reinforces Impunity

This week, Ethiopian authorities dropped all charges and released Abdi Mohamoud Omar, also known as “Abdi Illey,” the former president of Ethiopia’s Somali region, after serving more than five years in prison. The action is a setback to ending…
Front gate of Jail Ogaden
March 15, 2024 News

Reinstate Dissolved Groups; Respect Freedoms of Association, Assembly, Expression

  Mali’s minister of territorial administration’s order to dissolve a student association is just the latest in a series of government actions to crack down on freedom of association. The minister said that the Association of Pupils and…
The leader of Mali’s junta, Lt. Col. Assimi Goita, center, attends an independence day military parade on September 22, 2022, in Bamako, Mali.
March 15, 2024 News

Fast-Track Legislation for Refugees Violates Rights of Muslims

This week, India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government began implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which parliament had enacted in 2019. The law fast-tracks citizenship requests from non-Muslims fleeing religious persecution from…
Protesters demonstrate against the Citizenship Amendment Act in New Delhi, India
March 15, 2024 News

Migration Control Obsession Ignores Abuses, Entrenches Oppression

The European Union is about to reward Egypt’s autocratic leader, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, for preventing migrants’ departures towards Europe. Visiting Cairo on March 17, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, along with the Prime Ministers of…
​ Click to expand Image © 2022 Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations.
March 15, 2024 News

Inter-American Court Orders Improved Oversight, Investigations of Killings

(São Paulo)  – The Brazilian government should comply with two new rulings by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that found Brazil responsible for serious human rights violations by the police, Human Rights Watch said today. The…
 The image shows a group of people participating in a protest. The protesters hold banners and wear t-shirts with a person's face. One prominent banner read, in Portuguese, "There is no confrontation when only one side shoots" with the word "JUSTICE" emphasized below.
March 15, 2024 News

Proceedings Suspended Pending Defense’s Response

Earlier this month, in the landmark trial of Guinea’s former president and 10 others, including former ministers, who are accused of responsibility for a massacre and rapes in a stadium, the prosecution team requested the reclassification of charges…
Eleven men accused of responsibility for the 2009 massacre and mass rape of pro-democracy protesters by forces linked to a former military junta in Guinea.
March 15, 2024 News

Reject ‘Foreign Representatives’ Bill; Uphold International Rights Commitments

(New York, March 15, 2024) – Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov should support Kyrgyzstan’s nongovernmental sector and withdraw the abusive “foreign representatives” draft law aimed at silencing the country’s vibrant and vocal civil society, Human Rights…
Sadyr Japarov 2022
March 15, 2024 News

Security Council Should Act on Access for Aid Deliveries

(New York, March 15, 2024) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to alert the Security Council in the coming days that Sudan has entered a downward spiral of extreme conflict-induced hunger, Human Rights Watch said today. The…
Sudanese women and children who fled the conflict in Geneina, in Sudan's Darfur region, line up at the water point in Adre, Chad, July 30, 2023.
March 14, 2024 News

Taliban Abuses Exacerbate Impact on Women and Girls

“The situation is getting worse every day,” Ahmad, a former journalist in Herat, Afghanistan, told me. “I don’t think anyone can afford to buy enough food anymore.” Afghanistan has been in the throes of an economic crisis for more than two years,…
An Afghan woman carries empty containers to fetch water in Nahr-e-Shahi district in Balkh province, Afghanistan, August 6, 2023.

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