Saudi Crown Prince Confirms Death Sentence for Tweets
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, has confirmed that retired teacher Muhammed al Ghamdi was indeed sentenced to death for his social media posts. In an interview with Fox News on...
View ArticleUN Human Rights Council Should Move to Investigate Beirut Blast
Click to expand Image High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks at a news conference in Khartoum, Sudan, November 16, 2022. © 2022 Marwan Ali/AP Photo Support for an international...
View ArticleBold Action Needed Following UN Climate Ambition Summit
Click to expand Image An estimated 75,000 people took part in a march in New York City to “End Fossil Fuels” on September 17, 2023. © 2023 Sarah Grile/HRW On Wednesday, The United Nations held a...
View ArticleChinese Court Imposes Life Sentence on Uyghur Scholar
Click to expand Image Rahile Dawut © Lisa Ross On Thursday, the human rights group Dui Hua Foundation confirmed that Chinese authorities have handed down a life sentence on the internationally...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Ensure Civilians’ Rights in Nagorno Karabakh
Click to expand Image A local government worker, right in red, tries to reassure residents during shooting in the vicinity, in Stepanakert/Khankendi, Nagorno-Karabakh on September 21, 2023. © 2023 AP...
View ArticleSouth Korea’s ‘Anonymous Birthing’ Bill Fails Women, Children
Click to expand Image A “baby box,” where mothers can leave unwanted children, is visible on the left at Joosarang church as a preacher and two children go for a walk in Seoul, South Korea, September...
View ArticleIMF: Austerity Loan Conditions Risk Undermining Rights
Click to expand Image © 2023 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch (Washington DC) – The International Monetary Fund, with a global debt crisis looming, is setting conditions for its loans that risk...
View ArticleIraq: Torture Survivors Await US Redress, Accountability
The US government has apparently failed to provide compensation or other redress to Iraqis who suffered torture and other abuse by US forces at Abu Ghraib and other US-run prisons in Iraq two decades...
View ArticleGuinea: Significant Progress in 2009 Massacre Trial
Click to expand Image Former Guinean president Moussa Dadis Camara, one of eleven men accused of committing crimes during the 2009 Guinean stadium massacre, is heard by judges on December 19, 2022, as...
View ArticleRising Seas, Broken Promises in Panama
Click to expand Image Dark clouds and stormy seas foreshadow future climate change impacts on the island of Gardi Sugdub. © 2023 Pamela Vacacurva for Human Rights Watch Today – September 25, 2023 – is...
View ArticleBrazil: Disability Plan Should End Warehousing
(Brasilia) – The Brazilian government, in its upcoming plan for people with disabilities, should set out concrete plans for deinstitutionalization, Human Rights Watch said today. The plan, to be...
View ArticleIndigenous Peoples Secure Decisive Victory in Brazil
Click to expand Image Brazilian Xokleng Indigenous people celebrate after a majority on Brazil's Supreme Court voted against the so-called legal thesis of 'Marco Temporal' (Temporal Milestone), in...
View ArticlePolish Volunteer Detained for Aiding Migrants
Click to expand Image Polish border guards watch asylum seekers stuck at the Polish-Belarus border in Bialowieza, May 28, 2023. © 2023 Sipa via AP Images Polish authorities have hit a new low in their...
View ArticleUzbekistan Authorities Keep Wrongfully Imprisoned Lawyer Isolated
Click to expand Image Twenty-two defendants, including blogger and lawyer Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, listen to the verdict in their trial on charges related to the July 2022 protests in Nukus, the main...
View ArticleUS Rebukes Egypt for Using Child Soldiers
Click to expand Image Egyptian army soldiers guard the entrance of tunnels and the Suez Canal area, in Ismailia, Egypt, November 17, 2019. © 2019 REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany The United States...
View ArticleVietnam: Drop Charges Against Climate Activist
Click to expand Image 2018 Obama scholar Hoang Thi Minh Hong © Private (Bangkok) - The Vietnamese government should immediately drop all charges against the prominent environmental activist Hoang Thi...
View ArticleUS/Haiti: Suspend Deportation Flights to Haiti
Click to expand Image Haitian community leaders, immigrant community members, and their supporters gather on October 22, 2021 at the Newark Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Newark,...
View ArticleBangladesh: Shipping Firms Profit from Labor Abuse
Click to expand Image Workers dismantling a ship without adequate protective equipment in Chattogram Bangladesh. © 2023 Anukta Many European shipping companies are knowingly sending their end-of-life...
View ArticleGermany Should Keep Focus on Rights in Central Asia Talks
Click to expand Image German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (R) welcomes Shavkat Mirsiyoyev, President of Uzbekistan, in front of the Chancellor's Office in Berlin, Germany, May 2, 2023. © 2023 Bernd von...
View ArticleXenophobia Rears its Ugly Head in South Africa
Click to expand Image A man holds up a South African flag as members of "Operation Dudula" march down a street in the Hillbrow neighborhood to deliver memoranda to several businesses in the area,...
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