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."

(Berlin, March 16, 2022)— Russian forces repeatedly fired cluster munitions into the densely populated city of Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine, during three separate attacks on March 7, 11, and 13, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack on March 13 reportedly killed nine civilians, who were apparently queuing at a cash machine. The three attacks also injured several other civilians and damaged a hospital, homes, businesses, and civilian vehicles. “Multiple residential areas in Mykolaiv were rocked by cluster munition attacks in the span of a week,” said Steve Goose, Arms Director of Human Rights Watch. “Russian forces should cease the use of cluster munitions and end these clearly indiscriminate attacks.”

Scores Killed and Wounded in Apparent War Crime in Chernihiv

"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

This International Women’s Day, we honor all the women who support each other in these extraordinary times. Today, hundreds of thousands of women have fled the conflict in Ukraine, many caring for dependents, after being separated from their adult male relatives who are required to remain behind because conscription has been activated. They join the millions of refugees around the world. This is another reminder that armed conflicts and refugee crises are women’s rights crises.

Indiscriminate Attacks May Amount to War Crimes

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