“These terrifying accounts of previously unreported CIA torture methods show how little the public still knows about the US torture program..." Why No Outcry Over Nabeel Rajab?
You’d think it would be easy for governments to call for Rajab’s immediate release, as Human Rights Watch and 21 other campaign groups have asked them to do... The Horrors of a Hurricane, Doubled by Statelessness
My thoughts tonight are with Haitians, but also with the perhaps thousands of stateless people along Haiti’s border with the Dominican Republic. They live in make-shift camps. I can’t imagine many worse places to be when a hurricane dumps 40 inches of rain... Execution Looms for Iranian Child Bride
On September 30, a young woman delivered a stillborn child in Euromieh central prison, in northern Iran. That would be tragic for any mother, but in Zeinab Sokian’s case, the tragedy is runs even deeper: the delivery brings her one step closer to the gallows... UN Should Demand End to Unlawful Aleppo Attacks
"The walls keep crumbling. No one cares, no one listens, no one is stopping this waterfall of blood...”
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Europe/Central Asia Why Anna Politkovskaya Still InspiresI was at a farmers' market in Moscow looking for a perfect eggplant when a friend called to tell me Anna Politkovskaya had been killed. I remember answering the cell phone and hearing my friend's scratchy voice, "Anya is gone. They murdered her. She's dead..." United States US Election and Human Rights
The 2016 US presidential election has generated a great deal of debate on human rights issues on which Human Rights Watch has been working for years. In the lead-up to the vote, our experts examine some of the key issues being debated, as well as others that should be top priorities for the next president... Africa DR Congo Should Protect Civilians in Beni from Attack
"Along the way, they started to kill some of us, including my 16-year-old brother. They killed him and some of the others with axes and machetes...”
