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October 5, 2018 Report

Paris: Dire Situation for Migrant Adolescents Arriving Alone

Flawed Procedures Block Access to Services

Unaccompanied teens queue outside the Paris evaluation facility
October 3, 2018 Report

Lebanon: Discriminatory Nationality Law

Grant Lebanese Women’s Children, Spouses Citizenship Rights

Joelle Bassoul, a Lebanese national, doesn’t know how she will ever tell her children they are not Lebanese like her family and their friends, just because their father is not Lebanese.
October 2, 2018 Report

Indonesia: Shackling Reduced, But Persists

Oversight Crucial to End Abuse of People with Disabilities

A woman with a scarf sits on a wooden platform to which she is shackled.
September 26, 2018 Report

Iran: Targeting of Dual Citizens, Foreigners

Prolonged Detention, Absence of Due Process

[From top left] Siamak Namazi, Baquer Namazi, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Xiyue Wang and his family, and Nizar Zakka. © 2018 Private
September 25, 2018 Report

Yemen: Houthi Hostage-Taking

Arbitrary Detention, Torture, Enforced Disappearance Go Unpunished

Former detainees described Houthi officers beating them with iron rods, wooden sticks, and assault rifles. © 2018 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch
September 19, 2018 Report

Turkey/Iraq: Strikes May Break Laws of War

At Least 7 Non-combatants Killed; Residents Say No Military Targets Nearby

The home of Sharo Mahmoud Braym in Sarkan village which was hit by an apparent Turkish airstrike on March 22, 2018, killing four men inside. © 2018 Private
September 18, 2018 Report

Burundi: Renew UN Inquiry

New Abuses, Climate of Fear After Referendum

Member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi, Françoise Hampson (L), and chairman Doudou Diène (C), give a press conference to present a report on rights violations in the country on September 5, 2018 in Geneva.
September 13, 2018 Report

Nepal: Barriers to Inclusive Education

Segregation, Lack of Accessibility for Children with Disabilities

A sign language teacher translates a lesson to students with disabilities in an inclusive class.
September 12, 2018 Report

Iraq: Officials Threatening, Arresting Lawyers

Blocks Services for ISIS Suspects and Their Families

Mosul’s Civil Status Directorate. © 2018 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch
September 2, 2018 Report

Yemen: Coalition Bus Bombing Apparent War Crime

States Supplying Arms Risk Complicity

People are seen near a bus destroyed by an airstrike that killed dozens of children, in a photograph taken on August 12, 2018 in Saada, Yemen.
August 28, 2018 Report

DR Congo: Opposition Under Assault

Ensure Rights to Free Movement, Assembly Ahead of Elections

Supporters of Congolese opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba run to take cover after riot police fired teargas to disperse them in downtown Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 1, 2018.
August 19, 2018 Report

Iraq: Chilling Accounts of Torture, Deaths

Investigate Abuse During Interrogations in Mosul

Mahmoud said he was hung in the “bazoona” position at least six times while in detention, for hours. He said that at least four of those times, he lost consciousness before being taken down. Sometimes officers threw water at him before beating his back wi
August 16, 2018 Report

Egypt: Campaign to Crush Artistic Freedom

Restrictions, Blanket Censorship, and Prosecutions in Military Courts

National Security officers shut down al-Karama libraries without offering reasons.
August 1, 2018 Report

Syria: Thousands of Displaced Confined to Camps

Areas Taken from ISIS Restricting Free Movement

View from hill overlooking Ain Issa displacement camp in Syria, May 2018. © Human Rights Watch
July 31, 2018 Report

Iraq: Judges Disregard Torture Allegations

Failure to Investigate, Punish Security Forces Implicated in Abuse

Risafa Central Criminal Court in Baghdad, where Human Rights Watch sat in on 18 felony trials in June and July, 2018.

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