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August 22, 2019 News Release

Venezuela: UN Should Set Commission of Inquiry

Accountability Needed for Egregious Crimes, Humanitarian Emergency

Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, June 24, 2019.
August 21, 2019 Commentary

Indonesia’s Journalists Grapple With Islamism

Reporters in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country are navigating — and too often abetting — a rising trend of reactionary Islamism.

Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X talks to journalist after cast his votes at a polling station in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on April 17, 2019.
August 21, 2019 News Release

US: New Rules Allow Indefinite Detention of Children

Detention Has Severe Consequences for Children’s Health and Safety

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August 21, 2019 Dispatches

Who Will Pay to Clean Up US Coal Ash Pollution?

Environmental Protection Agency’s Proposal Risks Serious Harm

Coal ash swirls on the surface of the Dan River in Danville, Virginia
August 21, 2019 Letter

Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OLEM-2019-0085 - Human Rights Watch Comment to EPA Regarding Financial Responsibility Requirements under CERCLA Section 108(b)

The EPA should reverse its proposed rule and require financial assurances for the electric power generation, transmission, and distribution industry

August 21, 2019 Dispatches

Silencing of Activist Shows Kazakhstan’s Contempt for Rights

Conditions on Serikzhan Bilash’s Release Should be Dropped

Serikzhan Bilash, a prominent activist who has campaigned for the release of ethnic Kazakhs in China, poses for a photograph, in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
August 21, 2019 Commentary

Why So Many Chinese Students Can’t Understand the Hong Kong Protests

Protesters react to teargas from the Sham Shui Po police station in Hong Kong, August 14, 2019.
August 21, 2019 Report

Yemen: Coalition Warships Attack Fishing Boats

47 Yemeni Fishermen Killed, Dozens Detained Since 2018

Fishermen rest on their boats in Hodeida, Yemen before going out to sea, September 2018. Since 2018, Saudi-led coalition naval forces have attacked fishing boats in the Red Sea, killing at least 47 Yemeni fishermen. © 2018 Hani Mohammed/AP Photo
August 20, 2019 News Release

Myanmar/Bangladesh: Halt Rohingya Returns

Ensure Refugees’ Security, Basic Rights, Equal Access to Citizenship

Rohingya refugees at a camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, January 1, 2019.
August 20, 2019 Statement

Statement on Options for the Way Forward, CCW meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems

Delivered by Mary Wareham, Human Rights Watch for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots

August 20, 2019 Dispatches

In Sri Lanka, Victor’s Justice Means No Justice at All

Commander of Abusive Division Appointed Army Chief

General Shavendra Silva is seen at the Ampara Air Force camp in eastern Sri Lanka August 24, 2009.
August 20, 2019 News Release

Turkey: 3 Kurdish Mayors Removed from Office

Violates Voters’ Rights; Suspends Local Democracy in Major Southeast Cities

The elected mayors from the main southeastern municipalities removed by Turkey’s interior ministry on August 19, 2019; from left to right: Mardin mayor Ahmet Türk; Diyarbakır mayor Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı; Van mayor Bedia Özgökçe Ertan.
August 20, 2019 Letter

Submission by Human Rights Watch to Australian Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights

Quality of Care Amendment (Minimising the Use of Restraints) Principles 2019

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August 20, 2019 Commentary

Australian Mother's Plea to Come Home from Crowded Camp After Fleeing Islamic State

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August 20, 2019 Report

Cameroon: Detainees Tortured

Abuse, Incommunicado Detention at Yaoundé Prison; Enforced Disappearances

Satellite image showing the location of the State Defense Secretariat (Secrétariat d’État à la défense, SED) in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

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