Language English Español Français (Santiago de Chile, November 26, 2019) – Chilean authorities should overhaul the police force in the wake of compelling evidence of excessive use of force and serious abuses against demonstrators, Human Rights Watch said today. Starting on October 18, 2019, ...
Expand Damaged school in Nikishine. Rebel fighters deployed inside the school between September 2014 and February 2015 and exchanged intense fire with Ukrainian forces. © 2015 Yulia Gorbunova/Human Rights Watch The news this week that Ukraine has become the 100 th country to endorse the Safe ...
Expand A campaign poster showing environmental activists Taher Ghadirian, Niloufar Bayani, Amirhossein Khaleghi, Houman Jokar, Sam Rajabi, Sepideh Kashani, Morad Tahbaz and Abdolreza Kouhpayeh, who have been detained since early 2018 in Iran. An Iranian court in November 2019 sentenced Bayani, ...
Language English Français (London, November 25, 2019) – Four European development banks are financing a palm oil company in the Democratic Republic of Congo that is violating workers’ rights and dumping untreated waste, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The company, Feronia, will ...
Expand Theater Doc on the first night of the “Bolotnaya Case” production about politically motivated prosecutions of protesters, Moscow 2015 © Maria Sotskova, Novaya Gazeta This month, police in Moscow launched an audit of Theater Doc, an independent theater in Moscow known for productions ...
Русский Expand Roman Udot at his court hearing in Moscow, May 22, 2019. © 2019 Novaya Gazeta (Moscow) – A court in Moscow found Roman Udot, an election rights activist, guilty on November 28, 2019 of threatening the life of two broadcast journalists in a politically motivated prosecution, Human ...
What inspired you to take part in Queer Eye: We’re in Japan!? The experience of working for Human Rights Watch definitely pushed me to be on Queer Eye. With Human Rights Watch, I interviewed LGBT kids in Japan who were bullied. What struck me was that many LGBT kids said they have no information ...
Expand Papuan students shout slogans during a rally in Jakarta, Indonesia on August 28, 2019. Students and activists gathered for a protest supporting West Papua, calling for independence from Indonesia, and demanding racial justice in Surabaya, East Java. © 2019 Andrew Gal/NurPhoto via Getty ...
Expand Emmanuel Monychol Akop, Managing Editor of the Dawn Newspaper has been in detention without charge since November 4, 2019. © Private 2019 (Nairobi) – South Sudanese authorities should immediately release a journalist who has been arbitrarily detained, Human Rights Watch said today. The ...
On November 29, 2019, young people will gather at locations around the world for a Fridays for Future Global Climate Strike. On December 2, United Nations delegates, world leaders, business executives, and activists will meet at the 25th Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on ...
العربية Mafraq Protests Jordan Protestors in Mafraq governorate on 22 November calling for the release of political activists © 2019 Private العربية (Amman) – Jordanian authorities are seeking to limit protests over austerity policies throughout 2019 by targeting protest leaders, participants, ...
Vietnamese authorities must immediately end the escalating crackdown on an independent publishing house, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. As part of the crackdown, dozens of people have been harassed and intimidated by police across the country, and at least one person has ...
Expand A boy sits on a swing in the courtyard of an orphanage for children with disabilities, Yerevan, Armenia. © 2016 Alexei Golubev for Human Rights Watch Allegations of illegal adoption of Armenian children are putting Armenia’s institutions for children in the global spotlight. In recent weeks, ...
Expand Afghan police officers search a vehicle at a checkpoint on the Ghazni highway, in Maidan Shar, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Rahmat Gul When allegations of widespread sexual abuse of children surface, it’s supposed to be the perpetrators who get ...
201911lgbt_korea_pride Participants march with a rainbow flag during a gay pride parade in Seoul © AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon Conservative lawmakers in South Korea have already blocked the passage of nondiscrimination laws that would protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and ...
Expand A man lays flowers to the memorial of dead Maidan activists during the anniversary in Kyiv © Pavlo Gonchar (Sipa via AP Images) A lawyer who represents families of activists killed during Maidan protests in Kyiv in the winter of 2013 to 2014 has gone on a hunger strike. Evgeniya Zakrevskaya ...
201911Asia_China_Xinjiang_Boarding School Barbed wire surrounds the walls around a cluster of schools on the outskirts of Kashgar, in western China's Xinjiang region, August 31, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Ng Han Guan 简体中文 “I’m sure that you will support them, because this is for their own good…and ...
Mr. President, Stockpile destruction is undoubtedly one of the great success stories of the Mine Ban Treaty. Under the Mine Ban Treaty, a total of 93 States Parties have collectively destroyed more than 55 million antipersonnel landmines from their stocks, including more than 1.4 million mines ...
FIFA's response to the letter dated November 7, 2019 Dear Ms Worden, Dear Ms Richardson, Thank you for your letter concerning the hosting of the FIFA Club World Cup 2021 (FCWC 2021). We are pleased to confirm that the FIFA Council awarded the hosting of the FCWC 2021 to China on 22 October ...
Français Expand Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, attends the FIFA Council Meeting, officially announcing the 2021 FIFA Club World Cup will be held in Shanghai, China, October 24, 2019. © 2019 Imaginechina via AP Images (New York) – FIFA ’s surprise selection of China to host the 2021 Club ...
