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Asia

April 12, 2019 News Release

Nepal: Reform Transitional Justice Law
Afghanistan

April 12, 2019 News Release

ICC: Judges Reject Afghanistan Investigation
Asia

April 5, 2019 News Release

Malaysia: Don’t Quit International Criminal Court

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October 1, 2015 Video

DR Congo: Mass Rape Victims Deserve Better Justice
September 9, 2015 Video

Sudan: Special Force Rampages and Rapes in Darfur Villages
July 13, 2015 Video

Three Years After ICC Warrant Issued, FDLR Leader Still At Large

Reports More Reports

September 19, 2017

“Fuel on the Fire”

Security Force Response to the 2016 Irreecha Cultural Festival
September 7, 2017

Implicating Humala

Evidence of Atrocities and Cover-Up of Abuses Committed during Peru’s Armed Conflict
July 13, 2017

“All Thieves Must Be Killed”

Extrajudicial Executions in Western Rwanda

News

April 5, 2019 News Release

Tunisia: Truth Commission Outlines Decades of Abuse
April 4, 2019 News Release

Cambodia: Free Opposition Leader From House Arrest
April 1, 2019 Q & A

Q&A: Justice for Civil Wars-Era Crimes in Liberia
March 26, 2019 News Release

Tunisia: Bar or Arrest Sudan’s al-Bashir
March 25, 2019 Letter

Joint Letter to the UN Secretary General
March 7, 2019 News Release

EU: Renewed Impetus for International Justice
February 25, 2019 Letter

Letter to Chef de Cabinet of Secretary-General on his Photos with President Omar al-Bashir
February 15, 2019 News Release

Myanmar: Investigate Police Use of Force in Karenni State
February 8, 2019 News Release

Indonesia: Free Three Papuan Activists
December 16, 2018 News Release

Japan: Football Star Working for Rights Abuser
December 9, 2018 News Release

Indonesia: Papuan Militants Kill 17
December 8, 2018 Statement

Human Rights Watch Statement for the General Debate of the International Criminal Court’s Seventeenth Assembly of States Parties

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International Justice by Country

Torture Persists in Mosul Jail: Daily Brief

Daily Brief

Torture persists in Mosul jail; Sudan should transfer Al-Bashir and other Sudanese fugitives to the International Criminal Court; Myanmar satire should not be a crime; if Brunei's stoning law is enforced, sanction the sultan; Georgia must protect fleeing Saudi sisters; Pakistan cares about the rights of all Muslims - except those oppressed by China; the European Parliament calls for targeted sanctions over Xinjiang crackdown; and two human rights defenders amongst the 100 most influential people of 2019.