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April 9, 2024 Dispatches

Texas Constructing Massive Anti-Migrant Military Base

Forward Operating Base Part of Multibillion-Dollar “Operation Lone Star”

National Guard soldier stands guard on the banks of the Rio Grande river at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas on January 12, 2024.

April 4, 2024 Report

Gaza: Israeli Strike Killing 106 Civilians an Apparent War Crime

Governments Should Suspend Arms to Israel, Support ICC Probe

In the rubble of the Engineers’ Building, Karam al-Sharif, an UNRWA employee, holds one of his 18-month-old twin boys killed in the October 31 Israeli airstrike on the building that killed at least 106 civilians, including 5 of his children and 5 other relatives.

February 8, 2024 News Release

Ukraine: New Findings on Russia’s Devastation of Mariupol

War Crimes Inquiry Needed into Massive Loss of Civilian Life, Infrastructure

A cyclist walks down a damaged road with destroyed buildings on either side

January 25, 2024 Report

Burkina Faso: Drone Strikes on Civilians Apparent War Crimes

Impartially Investigate Military’s Air Attacks; Compensate Victims, Families

Photograph taken by a witness after the attack on a market near Boulkessi, Mopti Region, Mali on November 18, 2023.

December 20, 2023 Commentary

Inside Human Rights Watch Digital Investigation’s Lab

How HRW Uses the Latest Technology to Corroborate and Reconstruct Events and Draw Conclusions

December 7, 2023 Report

Israel: Strikes on Journalists in Lebanon Apparently Deliberate

Intentionally Targeting Civilians a War Crime

Reuters' journalist Issam Abdallah films an interview amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, April 17, 2022.

November 26, 2023 Report

Sudan: New Mass Ethnic Killings, Pillage in Darfur

UN Security Council Should Act to Protect Civilians, Punish Abusive RSF Commanders

Families escaping Ardamata in West Darfur cross into Adre, Chad, after a wave of ethnic violence, November 7, 2023. Survivors recounted executions and looting in Ardamata, which they said were carried out by RSF and allied Arab militias. © 2023 REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig

November 26, 2023 Report

Gaza: Findings on October 17 al-Ahli Hospital Explosion

Evidence Points to Misfired Rocket but Full Investigation Needed

The extensive fire damage to cars in the parking lot at Al-Ahli hospital appears to have been caused by burning rocket propellant that would have spread to – and ignited – fuel or some other flammable material present on the site, Gaza City, October 18, 2023.

November 22, 2023 Report

China: Mosques Shuttered, Razed, Altered in Muslim Areas

Curbing Islam via ‘Consolidation’ Policy in Ningxia, Gansu Provinces

A WeChat post by the state television station in Linxia shows how a mosque was closed and turned into a cloth shoe poverty alleviation workshop in Huangniwan Village in August 2018, Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, China, May 14, 2020.

November 14, 2023 Report

Gaza: Unlawful Israeli Hospital Strikes Worsen Health Crisis

Israel’s Blockade, Bombardment Decimate Healthcare System; Investigate as War Crimes

Medical workers treat a Palestinian injured in an Israeli strike, using flashlights due to the lack of electricity at the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, November 10, 2023.

November 7, 2023 News Release

Gaza: Israeli Ambulance Strike Apparently Unlawful

Medical Transport Has Special Protections Against Attack

People gather around an ambulance damaged in a strike in front of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on November 3, 2023.

October 18, 2023 News Release

Israel/Palestine: Videos of Hamas-Led Attacks Verified

ICC Has Mandate to Probe Attacks as War Crimes

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October 11, 2023 Commentary

Real or Fake? Verifying Video Evidence in Israel and Palestine

How HRW’s Digital Investigations Team is Working to Build Evidence

A man records a video with his mobile phone of rockets being fired

September 14, 2023 Report

Bangladesh: Social Audits Shortchange Workers

Shahidul Islam’s Killing Underscores Heightened Risks for Independent Unions

Labor Day protest organized by the National Garment Workers Federation for a higher minimum wage and the right to organize, Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 1, 2023.

June 14, 2023 News Release

DR Congo: Mass Graves Tied to Rwanda-Backed M23

Evidence of Apparent War Crimes in Kishishe Should Be Preserved

Deux hommes indiquent l’emplacement d’une fosse commune parmi des bananiers près de l’église adventiste, le 5 avril 2023. Plusieurs personnes ont été exécutées à proximité de l’église par le M23 en novembre 2022 à Kishishe, dans l’est de la République démocratique du Congo.

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