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September 5, 2023 Commentary

How Japan Can Lead on Human Rights

Opportunities at the G20 and ASEAN Summits

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to the media in Tokyo, September 5, 2023.

September 5, 2023 Dispatches

Australian Prime Minister Should Press Philippines to End Killings

Albanese’s Visit with Marcos Should Prioritize Rights Issues

Relatives of “drug war” victims light candles after the International Criminal Court allowed the ICC prosecutor to resume his investigation into alleged crimes against humanity in the Philippines, Quezon City, July 18, 2023.

September 5, 2023 News Release

Cluster Munitions: New Use, Transfers Challenge Total Ban

Global Report Tracks Civilian Harm from Prohibited Weapon

People assess the damage caused by the Syrian-Russian military alliance’s cluster munition attack on the Maram camp for displaced people near the village of Kafr Jalis in Idlib governorate, northwestern Syria, on 6 November 2022.

September 5, 2023 Dispatches

Breaking Educational Barriers for Children with Albinism

Photograph of Josina (left) with her niece, Luisa. “She is my best friend,” said Josina. “She is always asking if I’m ok, she helps me read after school and she looks after me.”

September 5, 2023 News Release

Lebanon: Attack on Freedoms Targets LGBTI People

Repressive Legislation; Unlawful Crackdown

September 4, 2023 Statement

Joint Statement: Sri Lanka’s Flawed Plans for a ‘Truth Commission’

September 4, 2023 Commentary

G20: India Has Work To Do on Key Human Rights Issues

September 4, 2023 Q & A

Q&A: Justice for Serious International Crimes Committed in Ethiopia

Displaced Ethiopians from different towns in the Amhara region wait for aid distributions at a center for the internally-displaced in Debark, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia August 26, 2021.

September 3, 2023 Commentary

Shoring Up Support for the Convention on Cluster Munitions

Unexploded DPICM submunition found by Human Rights Watch researchers in a field north of Baghdad, Iraq, in May 2003.

September 1, 2023 Dispatches

US Chooses Shameful Hypocrisy in Forcibly Returning Haitians

Biden Administration Should End Dangerous Deportations to Haiti

People displaced by armed gangs from their homes in the Tabare neighborhood rest outside the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 25, 2023.

September 1, 2023 Dispatches

Troubling Development for Free Speech in Chad

Authorities Suspend News Site

Djimet Wiché, the publishing director of Alwihda Info, in his studio in 2023.

September 1, 2023 News Release

Bahrain: Address Hunger Strike Grievances

Release All Unjustly Detained; Treat All Prisoners Humanely

Bahraini anti-government protesters raise signs with images of jailed human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja Friday, April 6, 2012, in Jidhafs, Bahrain.

September 1, 2023 Letter

Human Rights Watch Letter to President Biden

Re: Upcoming Visit and Human Rights in Vietnam

September 1, 2023 Background Briefing

Statements by UN human rights experts and bodies on the human rights situation in the Russian Federation, from July 2022 – July 2023

September 1, 2023 Background Briefing

Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper on human rights in the Russian Federation

August 2023

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