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January 22, 2020 Report

“The Guerrillas Are the Police”
Social Control and Abuses by Armed Groups in Colombia’s Arauca Province and Venezuela’s Apure State

Español Language English Summary In the eastern Colombian province of Arauca and the neighboring Venezuelan state of Apure, non-state armed groups use violence to control peoples’ daily lives. They impose their own rules, and to enforce compliance they threaten civilians on both sides of the border ...
January 22, 2020 Dispatches

Fight For Girls' Abortion Rights In Florida
Forced Parental Consent Threatens Teenagers’ Health, Dignity

Expand Protesters demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, March 2, 2016. © 2016 Reuters Today, on the 47th anniversary of Roe v. Wade – when the US Supreme Court affirmed access to abortion as a constitutional right – Florida legislators are considering a bill that would ...
January 21, 2020 Dispatches

Bangladesh Lawmakers Openly Call for Extrajudicial Executions
Rule of Law Collapsing in Bangladesh

Expand Bangladeshis hold photos of missing relatives during a press meeting in Dhaka on December 4, 2018. Hundreds joined in the protest demanding justice for the victims. © 2018 Munir UZ ZAMAN / AFP/ Getty Images In Bangladesh, people who question the government’s increasingly authoritarian rule ...
January 21, 2020 Dispatches

Dubious Charges Against Tanzanian Activist
Rights Groups Urge UN, AU to Intervene on Behalf of Tito Magoti

Expand Tanzanian human rights activist Tito Magoti speaks during an event in Dodoma, Tanzania on November 6, 2019 © 2019 Sipa Michael Mallya The United Nations and the African Union have been urged to intervene on behalf of Tito Magoti, a Tanzanian human rights activist, who was arrested on ...
January 22, 2020 Video

Colombia/Venezuela: Armed Groups Control Lives at Border

Language English Español Français Armed groups use brutal violence to control peoples’ daily lives in the eastern Colombian province of Arauca and the neighboring Venezuelan state of Apure. Americas Colombia Venezuela Colombia, Venezuela,Border, Arauca, Forced Labor, Armed Groups ...
January 22, 2020 News Release

Cambodia: Opposition Leader’s Trial Blocked to Public
Permit Media, Rights Monitors at Kem Sokha Hearings

Expand Cambodian police officers stand guard in front of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court during a hearing of Kem Sokha, the head of the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (Bangkok) – The Cambodian opposition leader ...
January 22, 2020 Dispatches

Russian LGBT Activist Under House Arrest is Facing New Charges
Authorities Should Drop Charges, Release Activist, Repeal Propaganda Law

Expand Illustration reading, "Family is where love is. Support LGBT+ families.” © 2019 Yulia Tsvetkova Russian feminist and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activist Yulia Tsvetkova, already under house arrest for two months on bogus charges of pornography distribution, faces new ...
January 22, 2020 News Release

Myanmar: Government Rohingya Report Falls Short
War Crimes Admitted, but Full Findings Not Released

Expand Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, receives a final report from Philippine diplomat Rosario Manalo, a member of the Independent Commission of Enquiry for Rakhine State, at the Presidential Palace in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, January 20, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo (New York) – ...
January 22, 2020 Dispatches

Guinea Support for 2009 Massacre Trial ‘Unequivocal’
Justice Minister Affirms Trial to Start in June

Français Expand Opposition supporters flee Conakry’s main stadium on September 28, 2009, after security forces stormed and opened fire on rally participants. These photos are taken from footage given to Human Rights Watch. Guinea’s Justice Minister Mohamed Lamine Fofana has announced his government ...
January 22, 2020 Dispatches

US Congress Should End Extortionate Interest Rates
Extend Military Interest Rate Cap to All Americans

Expand © Seth Anderson/Flickr The United States Congress is considering a bill that would make it easier for many Americans to take out loans and still be able to make ends meet. Nearly 4 in 10 Americans don’t have enough in savings to cover unexpected costs. In an emergency, taking a loan is the ...
January 22, 2020 News Release

Syria: Cluster Munition Attack on School
12 killed on first day of new decade

العربية Français Expand An unexploded 9N24 fragmentation submunition is marked by deminers in Sarmin, Idlib governorate. © 2020 Syria Civil Defense (Beirut) – A ballistic missile equipped with a banned cluster munition warhead launched by Syrian forces killed 12 civilians, including 5 children, at ...
January 22, 2020 News Release

Colombia/Venezuela: Armed Groups Control Lives at Border
Killings, Forced Labor, Child Recruitment

January 22, 2020 Video Colombia/Venezuela: Armed Groups Control Lives at Border Killings, Forced Labor, Child Recruitment (Bogotá) – Armed groups use brutal violence to control peoples’ daily lives in the eastern Colombian province of Arauca and the neighboring Venezuelan state of Apure, Human ...
January 22, 2020 News Release

Qatar: 5-Year Prison Sentence Set for ‘Fake News’
Penal Code Amendments a Setback for Freedom of Expression

العربية Expand An image of the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on a building in Doha, Qatar. © 2019 Anke Waelischmiller/AP Images (Beirut) – Qatar has amended its penal code to restrict further the already-narrow space for free expression by setting criminal penalties for spreading “fake news” ...
January 21, 2020 Commentary

Human Rights Watch Comment on Proposed Asylum Eligibility Bars

of the Principle of Non-Refoulement," paras. 147 and 164, June 20, 2001, https://www.unhcr.org/en ... -too-high/us-families-torn-apart-deportations-drug-offenses. [14] Ibid. [15] Delgado v. Holder, 648 F. 3d 1095 (9th Cir. 2011) (en banc). [16] Refugee Convention, ...
January 22, 2020 Blog

Prime Minister Forms A New Cabinet

Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced the formation of a new cabinet on January 21, almost one month after he was appointed to the post. The 20-member cabinet, which includes six female ministers, was backed by political parties allied with Hezbollah. Speaking shortly after the presidential palace ...
January 21, 2020 Dispatches

Crimea Bans for Journalists Are Choking the Truth
Russian Authorities Trying to Silence Information Flow from Occupied Crimea

Expand Taras Ibragimov in Simperopol, Crimea, in May 2019. © 2019 Olexandra Yefymenko Russian authorities barred an independent Ukrainian journalist, Taras Ibragimov, from entering Crimea last weekend and issued him a 34-year-ban. Ibragimov had traveled regularly to Crimea the past four years, and ...
January 21, 2020 Statement

Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on France
66th pre-sessional, 2020

https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/methods-for-assessing-the-age-... (accessed January 17, 2020); Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding Observations: ... France, U.N. Doc. CRC/C/FRA/CO/4 (June 22, 2009), paras. 87-88. [12] See Arrêté du 28 juin 2016 pris en ... ://defenseurdesdroits.fr/sites/default/files/atoms/files/836190480_ddd_synthrapenf-2019_access_en.pdf (accessed January 17, 2020); Camille Marquis (Human Rights ...
January 21, 2020 News Release

From Chile to China: Human Rights Weekend 2020
Films, Discussions at De Balie, Amsterdam (6-8 February)

Expand Program Human Rights Weekend 2020 Human Rights Watch (Amsterdam) – Human Rights Watch, De Balie, and partners proudly present the eighth edition of Human Rights Weekend, from 6 to 8 February 2020 at De Balie in Amsterdam. In a weekend of films, discussions, and more, participants will ...
January 22, 2020 Community Update

Kolumbien/Venezuela: Bewaffnete Gruppen kontrollieren Alltag an der Grenze

(Bogotá) – Bewaffnete Gruppen wenden brutale Gewalt an, um das tägliche Leben der Menschen in der Provinz Arauca im Osten Kolumbiens und dem benachbarten venezolanischen Bundesstaat Apure zu kontrollieren, so Human Rights Watch in einem heute veröffentlichten Bericht. Der 64-seitige Bericht „The ...
January 20, 2020 Dispatches

Nepal Falters on Justice Pledge for Conflict Abuses
Victim Groups Accuse Political Parties of Duplicity

The horrors of Nepal’s ten-year insurgency weigh greatly on the country, with a heavy toll of killings, rapes, disappearances, and torture. Expand Last week, former Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal said that he can “only” be blamed for 5,000 deaths conflict deaths while “state forces” had killed as ...