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June 25, 2025 Dispatches

UN Human Rights Office Calls for Action on ‘Transnational Repression’

Government Should Ensure Protection, Redress for Victims

United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2023.

June 25, 2025 News Release

Haiti: Displacement Hits Record as Security Efforts Fall Short

MSS Urgently Needs Reinforcement to Stop Violence and Protect Those at Risk

Children live in makeshift sites as growing insecurity, particularly in the capital, is forcing families to flee their former shelters in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on April 16, 2025.

June 24, 2025 Dispatches

Human Rights Council Members Should Reject Eritrea’s Bid to End Scrutiny

Council Should Support Renewal of Special Rapporteur

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker, during the 55th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, February 28, 2024.

June 20, 2025 Dispatches

Violations Soar Against Children in Armed Conflict

UN Report and ‘List of Shame’ Show War’s Horrific Impact on Children

A boy stands amid the ruins of a collapsed building following Israeli bombardment in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip, May 23, 2025.

June 17, 2025 Dispatches

DR Congo Investigations Needed More Than Ever

UN Funding Crisis Should Not Delay Commission of Inquiry

A woman who was sexually assaulted in a displacement camp in North Kivu province, where she had fled fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, August 23, 2023.

June 17, 2025 Statement

Words Are Not Enough. Concrete Action Needed to Stop Israel’s Extermination of Palestinians

HRW Oral Statement - ID with COI on OPT, including East Jerusalem, and Israel - HRC59

The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, June 13, 2022.

June 17, 2025 Statement

Backsliding on Human Rights in China, India and the USA

HRW Oral Statement - Item 2 ID on HC Annual Report - HRC59

June 17, 2025 Letter

Joint Letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

UN High Commissioner for Human Right's upcoming visit to Sri Lanka

June 17, 2025 News Release

Saudi Arabia: Prisoner, 70, Dies After Medical Neglect

UN Expert Denied Access to Older Detainees Despite Official Invitation

Saudi human rights activists gather outside the Criminal Court of Riyadh following a hearing in the trial of fellow activists Abdullah al-Hamid and Mohammed al-Qahtani.

June 16, 2025 Statement

Flagrant and Persistent Violations Require Continued International Scrutiny

HRW Oral Statement - ID with SR on Eritrea - HRC59

June 16, 2025 Statement

Human Rights Watch Oral Statement at the 59th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

HRW Oral Statement - EID with the SR on Afghanistan - HRC59

June 15, 2025 Dispatches

Rohingya Facing Risks Everywhere, at All Times

Military and Armed Group Abuses in Myanmar; Humanitarian Crisis in Bangladesh

Rohingya refugees attend a solidarity event with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser of the Bangladesh Interim Government, at the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 14, 2025.

June 12, 2025 Dispatches

UN Afghanistan Expert Renews Call for Wide-Ranging Accountability Body

Growing Global Momentum to Pursue Justice for Serious Rights Abuses

An Afghan woman walks among Taliban soldiers at a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 6, 2023.

June 10, 2025 Statement

Statement in occasion of the 18th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD

By Kabale Benon Kitafuna, 2025 Marca Bristo Fellow at Human Rights Watch

June 5, 2025 Letter

Letter to EU Foreign Ministers Ahead of UN Conference on Two-State Solution and Peace in the Middle East

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