At the age of 16, Nujeen Mustafa fled the war in Syria and endured a harrowing 5600-kilometer journey to Europe. It took 16 months, from Turkey to Germany, across the treacherous Mediterranean to Greece, Northern Macedonia, Serbia, and Hungary. All of this in her wheelchair. Her older sister, ...
Expand A section from Malaysia's ruling party’s election manifesto, “Buku Harapan: Rebuilding Our Nation, Fulfilling Our Hopes,” promising to repeal abusive laws, including the National Security Council Act of 2016. © Buku Harapan (Bangkok) – The Malaysian government is breaking a key ...
Expand Pope Francis meets South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit during a private audience at the Vatican, Saturday, March 16, 2019. © 2019 Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo This week, South Sudan’s leaders – President Salva Kiir, his former vice president Riek Machar, and other signatories to the ...
November 29, 2018 Video Ukraine: Barriers to Free Movement for Older People Older people who need to travel between the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine and government-controlled areas face arbitrary obstacles, including risks to their health and safety. On March 28, Ukraine did away with ...
Expand Moroccans take part in a demonstration against what they perceive as the marginalization of the Rif region, in the town of Al-Hoceima, Morocco early June 3, 2017. © 2017 Youssef Boudlal/Reuters (New York) – Casablanca’s appeals court, on April 6, 2019, confirmed the heavy sentences against ...
Language English Français Timo Mueller is the researcher and office leader for Human Rights Watch in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has traveled to disparate parts of the country and documented numerous human rights violations since joining in 2015, including war crimes, crimes against ...
The long-term detention in the Carlos Ghosn case has triggered surprise and criticism overseas, leading to doubts about Japan’s integrity as a democratic nation that guarantees human rights. Japan’s criminal justice practices have long been described as “hostage justice (hitojichi-shiho)”. The Code ...
Expand Lawyers march in Istanbul on January 24, 2019 Day of the Endangered Lawyer. The banner reads: “To silence the lawyer’s voice is to deprive the citizen of breath.” © 2019 Istanbul Bar Association (Berlin) – Turkey has been arbitrarily jailing hundreds of lawyers and putting them on trial in ...
Expand Men carry a dead body for burial in the North-West region village of Meluf, Cameroon, after government forces killed five civilian men on April 4, 2019. © 2019 Private (Nairobi) – Cameroonian soldiers, gendarmes, and members of the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) carried out a deadly ...
Español Expand A severely malnourished Venezuelan lies in a hospital bed in Cúcuta, Colombia. July 26, 2018. © 2018 Human Rights Watch (New York) – Members of the United Nations Security Council should urge UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to formally declare the situation in Venezuela a ...
Français Expand Cover of Race, Islam and Power: Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Suharto Indonesia by Andreas Harsono, Indonesia researcher at Human Rights Watch. © 2019 Monash University Publishing (Jakarta) – Political changes in post-Suharto Indonesia have triggered ethnic and religious ...
Expand © Office of US Representative Lois Frankel Globally, over 130 million girls between 6 and 17 years old are not in school. For adolescent girls especially, many factors feed into their ability to stay in school – do they have enough money to pay tuition fees? Do their parents value their ...
Expand An Indian army soldier stands guard as an army convoy moves on a highway on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Dar Yasin The beleaguered people of India’s Jammu and Kashmir state are facing a new challenge. Indian authorities declared ...
Expand Luciana dos Santos cries at the scene where the body of her husband, Evaldo dos Santos Rosa, lies slumped over in a car that was shot at by members of the armed forces, in the Guadalupe neighborhood, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, April 7, 2019. The Eastern Military Command initially ...
Français (Nairobi) – The government of Burundi has failed to deliver justice for the killing of Ernest Manirumva, a Burundian anti-corruption activist, a decade ago. The emblematic case is an example of political interference with criminal investigations, especially in politically sensitive cases ...
العربية Expand Remnant of a UK-produced missile found at the location of an air strike at Radfan Ceramics Factory, west of Sanaa, Yemen, on September 23, 2015. © 2015 Ali Muhammad al-Sawari (London) – Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and RW UK intervened in a court case beginning today ...
Expand Algerians take part in an anti-government demonstration, on April 5, 2019 in the capital Algiers after the resignation of ailing president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. © 2019 Louiza Ammi/abaca/Sipa USA (Beirut) – The resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on April 2, 2019 provides an ...
Annex 1, available at: http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10858-2015-INIT/en/pdf 22 Home ... 2018), UN Doc. A/HRC/39/43. https:// www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/YE/A_HRC_39_43_EN.docx 31 UN Human ... http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+TA+P... 0344+0+DOC+PDF+V0//EN 40 Resolution on implementation of Common Position, [17]. 41 Organization ...
(Berlin) – Die Türkei hat Hunderte Anwälte willkürlich inhaftiert und vor Gericht gestellt, nachdem der Militärputsch im Juli 2016 gescheitert war, so Human Rights Watch in einem heute veröffentlichten Bericht. Dieser Schritt ist Teil des massiven Angriffs der türkischen Behörden auf das Recht auf ...
