Ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, LGBT Qataris are raising the alarm on abuses they have endured by security forces in Qatar. HRW’s Rothna Begum moderates this discussion with HRW researcher Rasha Younes and Qatari LGBT rights activist Dr. Nasser Mohamed.
HRW is joined by the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy to discuss a recently released report on the serious and persistent human rights violations underlying the convictions and death sentences of eight men in Bahrain.
A conversation on the health and environmental impact of plastic waste in Turkey, and why a ban of plastic waste exports is an important part of the solution. HRW’s Krista Shennum is joined by Dr. Sedat Gündoğdu and MEP Cyrus Engerer, with moderation by Birgit Schwarz.
HRW crisis and conflict researcher Belkis Wille joins Andrew Stroehlein to discuss torture by Russian occupying forces in recently liberated Izium, Ukraine.
On September 30, an attack on an educational center in Kabul, Afghanistan, left more than 100 students dead or injured. Most of them were girls. Join HRW’s Fereshta Abbasi and Sahar Fetrat in conversation with Birgit Schwarz.
