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March 12, 2018 Statement

Myanmar: Accountability for Ethnic Cleansing Urgently Required

Clustered Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur and Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar

Abdul Kareem, a Rohingya Muslim, carries his mother, Alima Khatoon, to a refugee camp after crossing from Burma into Bangladesh on Sept. 16, 2017.

March 12, 2018 Statement

Strong Measures Needed to Advance Accountability in North Korea

Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

March 9, 2018 Statement

A time to stand up for human rights: UN rights body needs to ensure effective outcomes, placing victims first

Interactive Dialogue with High Commissioner for Human Rights

March 7, 2018 Statement

Statement on the Department of Justice’s Civil Suit Challenging Three California Lawsuits

March 7, 2018 Statement

NGO Statement on Reported Changes to U.S. Policy on Use of Armed Drones and Other Lethal Force

March 5, 2018 Statement

UN Rights Body: Move Toward Recognition of the Right to a Healthy and Sustainable Environment

Item 3 interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the environment

Environmental activists chain themselves to a logging machine during an action in the defence of one of the last primeval forests in Europe, Bialowieza forest, Poland May 24, 2017.

March 5, 2018 Statement

Endorsing Safe Schools Declaration important to protect children from horrors of armed conflict

Human Rights Watch statement to HRC panel on Protecting the Rights of the Child in Humanitarian Situations

March 2, 2018 Statement

Past Time to End Impunity for Atrocities in Eastern Ghouta

Urgent Debate on deteriorating situation of human rights in Eastern Ghouta at the Human Rights Council

An elderly man walks near a damaged building in the besieged town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, Syria.

February 28, 2018 Statement

70 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Closing the Implementation Gap

Human Rights Watch Statement to High-level Panel on 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 25th Anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action

Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN high commissioner for human rights, speaks at the 36th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2017.

February 21, 2018 Statement

Cambodia: Reject Draft Amendments to the Constitution and Criminal Code

Joint CSO Statement on Legislative Assault on Rights

February 19, 2018 Statement

"We stand in solidarity with civil society in Hungary"

Joint letter by more than 250 NGOs expressing their "grave concern" over the shrinking space for civil society in Hungary

People protest in Heroes’ square against a new law that would undermine Central European University, a liberal graduate school of social sciences founded by U.S. financier George Soros in Budapest, Hungary, April 12, 2017.

February 15, 2018 Statement

Human Rights Watch Updated Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Advance of its Review of Lebanon

February 13, 2018 Statement

Egypt: Planned Presidential Vote Neither Free Nor Fair

EU, US Should Speak Out

Members of the presidential campaign of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi count boxes containing his new presidential candidacy papers at the National Election Authority, which is in charge of supervising the 2018 presidential election in Cairo, Egyp

February 12, 2018 Statement

UN Security Council Should Act on Congo

Intervention at UN Security Council Arria Formula Meeting – “The Electoral Process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”

Security forces pursue peaceful protesters in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on December 31, 2017. © 2017 John Bompengo