How are various international institutions responding to Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine? What are these institutions doing to address the atrocities we're seeing on the ground? What more needs to be done? HRW's Executive Director, Kenneth Roth in conversation with European Media Director, Andrew Stroehlein.
Uzbekistan and its civil society reached a historic turning point in efforts to combat forced labor in the country’s annual cotton harvest yesterday. "An historic win for human rights activism."
"Women together are invincible. We can change the world, but we have to do it together." ~ Isabelle Allende
Afghanistan is not the only country where women’s rights are under attack this International Women’s Day. But the speed and extent of the obliteration of women’s rights in Afghanistan is a warning to women around the world about the fragility of progress toward equality, how quickly it can vanish, and how few will defend it. We should all be in solidarity with Afghan women; their fight is a fight for women’s rights everywhere.
As Russian forces invading Ukraine confront stronger and more effective resistance than the Kremlin probably anticipated, the big question is: what comes next. The Russian military has a history of meeting such resistance with serious violations of the laws of war, including deliberately targeting civilians and subjecting them to indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks.
