On March 3, 2022, at about 12:15 p.m. local time, Russian aircraft dropped multiple unguided bombs that simultaneously hit an intersection in a residential neighborhood of Chernihiv, a city in northeastern Ukraine, Human Rights Watch said today. The…

(Berlin, March 4, 2022) - Russian forces fired at least three cluster munitions into residential areas in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, on February 28, Human Rights Watch said today. Interviews with two witnesses and an analysis of 40 videos and…

(Berlin, February 25, 2022)— A Russian ballistic missile carrying a cluster munition struck just outside a hospital in Vuhledar, a town in the Ukrainian government-controlled Donetska region, on February 24, 2022, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack…

Scenes from Sayed ul-Shuhada High School in Kabul, Afghanistan, where as many as 85 people including many schoolgirls were killed in an attack this weekend, should break anyone’s heart. They certainly broke mine. In 2017 a filmmaker and I spent a week at…

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