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August 12, 2021 Dispatches

Poland Targets TV Channel, Limits Press Freedom and Pluralism

Senate Should Reject Bill Preventing Foreign Media Owners

A woman holds a sign with the words "Free media" in Warsaw, Poland on August 11, 2021.
August 12, 2021 Report

Palestinian Rockets in May Killed Civilians in Israel, Gaza

Indiscriminate Attacks by Gaza-Based Armed Groups Are War Crimes

Rockets launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel.
August 11, 2021 Report

Niger: Surging Atrocities by Armed Islamist Groups

Over 420 Civilians Killed During Attacks, Massacres in 2021

Villagers at a mass grave containing the remains of civilians killed during the March 21, 2021 attack by armed Islamist groups on villages in Tahoua region, Niger. More than 170 Tuareg villagers were killed in the attack, Niger’s worst atrocity in recent history.
August 11, 2021 News Release

Iraq: Apparent Familial Feud Drives Illegal Evictions

Displaced Iraqis’ Rights Trampled Repeatedly

Government buses waiting to move families from one camp in Anbar governate to another during a previous wave of camp closures in December 2018.  © 2018 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch
August 10, 2021 Interview

Left With Fish Too Small to Sell in Cambodia’s Mekong River Basin

How a China-Built Dam Destroyed an Ecosystem and Livelihoods

Aerial shot of the Lower Sesan 2 dam.
August 10, 2021 Dispatches

Mozambique Government Retakes Key Town from Militants

Ensure Civilian Safety, Provide Humanitarian Aid

Rwandan soldiers patrol the village of Mute, in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, on August 9, 2021.
August 10, 2021 News Release

Cambodia: China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Dam is a Rights Disaster

Indigenous and Ethnic Groups Coerced, Poorly Compensated

An aerial view of a village partially underwater
August 10, 2021 Letter

Senate Bill 639 (SB 639) State Minimum Wage Bill

Letter of Support to the Assembly Appropriations Committee

August 10, 2021 Dispatches

Video Captures Vicious Transphobic Attack in Cameroon

Repeal Anti-Homosexuality Law, Protect LGBT People

Patricia and Shakiro, two transgender women who were convicted in May of "attempted homosexuality," record a video after their release to thank those who supported them in Douala, Cameroon, July 16, 2021.
August 10, 2021 Commentary

Homophobic Ghanaian ‘Family Values’ Bill is Odious and Beggars Belief

Russia, Nigeria, Uganda and Hungary have all passed odious laws in recent years that discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Ghana’s proposed legislation takes bad parts from all of these and adds some.

A young lesbian woman at an LGBT community center in Accra, Ghana.
August 10, 2021 Commentary

Shackling of Women in the Name of Mental Health

Global Movement to #BreakTheChains

End Shackling in Indonesia
August 10, 2021 Statement

Burundi: Release Lawyer Tony Germain Nkina

Ex-Member of Civil Society Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

August 9, 2021 News Release

Sweden: Iran War Crimes Trial Opens

Universal Jurisdiction Provides Opening for Justice for Long-Ignored Crimes

A human rights exhibition on Iran during the international campaign to demand justice for the victims of the 1988 massacre, held near the French National Assembly in Paris, November 14, 2017.
August 9, 2021 Commentary

Supply Chain Laws to Fight Deforestation Must Back Indigenous Rights

Cláudio José da Silva at the bank of the Pindaré river, in the Brazilian Amazon.
August 9, 2021 News Release

Human Rights Watch Mourns Death of Sergei Kovalev

Sergei Kovalev, Moscow, May 2011.

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