World Responds to Trump’s Targeting of International Criminal Court
Click to expand Image President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House, Washington, DC, February 10, 2025. © 2025 Alex Brandon/AP Photo US President Donald Trump...
View ArticleUN Calls on Niger Junta to Free Former President
Click to expand Image Former Niger President Mohamed Bazoum at the Elysee Palace in Paris, February 16, 2023. © 2023 Michel Euler/AP Photo Niger’s junta has detained former Nigerien president Mohamed...
View ArticleBangladesh: Uphold Impartiality in Law Enforcement
Click to expand Image Security around the Supreme Court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 8, 2025. © 2025 Suvra Kanti Das/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP Photo (New York) – The interim government in Bangladesh...
View ArticleYemen: Houthi Attack on Civilians May be a War Crime
Click to expand Image Yemeni soldiers loyal to the Houthis ride a truck as they patrol in Sanaa, Yemen, August 27, 2023. © 2023 Yahya Arhab/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Houthi forces attacked several civilian...
View ArticleMali: AU Action Needed To End Crackdown on Opposition, Dissent
Click to expand Image Abdoulaye Maïga, Malian minister of territorial administration, speaks at the COP27 UN Climate Summit, November 8, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. © 2022 AP Photo/Peter Dejong...
View ArticleUS: Texas Vehicle Pursuits Kill At Least 106, Injure 301
Click to expand Image Kinney County sheriff's deputies, Border Patrol, and state highway patrol at a vehicle pursuit crash site on Monday, March 27, 2023, in Bracketville, Texas. © 2023 Jabin...
View ArticleAfrican Union Needs to Act Now on Eastern DR Congo
Click to expand Image People displaced by the fighting between the M23 armed group and Congolese government forces leave their camp after the M23 ordered their displacement, Goma, Democratic Republic...
View ArticleDR Congo: M23 Drives Displaced People From Goma Camps
Click to expand Image People displaced by the fighting between the M23 armed group and Congolese government forces leave their camp following an order from the M23 in Goma, Democratic Republic of the...
View ArticleIran: Repression of Azeri Minoritiy
Click to expand Image Iran’s High Court in Tehran. © 2016 Victor Jiang/Shutterstock (Beirut) – Iranian authorities have issued heavy prison sentences for at least two dozen activists from the Azeri...
View ArticleCameroon’s Massacre Victims Wait for Justice Five Years On
Click to expand Image Memorial ceremony held on February 21, 2020 at the Saint Theresia Cathedral l in Kumbo, North-West region, Cameroon, for victims of the Ngarbuh massacre. © 2020 Private Brutal...
View ArticleUK Encryption Order Threatens Global Privacy Rights
Click to expand Image The exterior of the UK’s Home Office building in London, November 20, 2024. © 2024 Alex Segre/Shutterstock (London) – The United Kingdom government’s order to Apple to allow...
View ArticleLebanon: Destruction of Infrastructure Preventing Returns
Click to expand Image A returning resident to Nabatieh, in southern Lebanon, stands before the wreckage in the city on November 30, 2024, days after the start of a ceasefire between Israel and...
View ArticleNorth Korea’s Unrelenting Human Rights Crisis
Click to expand Image North Korean soldiers along the Yalu River in Chunggang, as seen from Linjiang in the province of Jilin, northeast China, February 29, 2024. © 2024 PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty...
View ArticleEU Inaction Amidst Rwanda-Backed Atrocities in Eastern DR Congo
Click to expand Image Residents walk by charred vehicles in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, January 31, 2025. © 2025 Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo The European Parliament, in a strong resolution last...
View ArticleChina: Right to Leave Country Further Restricted
Click to expand Image A person holds a Chinese passport at the Zabaikalsk international checkpoint on the Russian-Chinese border, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, October 17, 2023. © Evgeny Yepanchintsev /...
View ArticleUS, EU, UK: Lift Syria Sanctions Hindering Recovery
Click to expand Image A worker unloads bags and boxes of humanitarian aid from the back of a truck in the opposition-held Idlib, Syria, June 9, 2021. © 2021 Khalil Ashawi/Reuters (Beirut) – Sweeping...
View ArticleGuatemala: Failed Response to Sexual Violence Against Girls
Click to expand Image © 2025 Doris Miranda for Human Rights Watch Guatemala is failing to prevent and address systemic sexual violence, resulting in forced pregnancies among girls under 14.Girls who...
View ArticleUganda Should Free Opposition Leader Besigye, Others
Click to expand Image Ugandan opposition leader and four-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye, stands in the dock at the Makindye Martial Court in Kampala, Uganda, November 20. 2024. © 2024...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Board Announces Leadership Transition
(New York) – Human Rights Watch announced today that the Board of Directors has named Federico Borello as interim executive director, effective immediately. Borello, the current deputy executive...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Public Investment Fund Meeting Whitewashes Abuses
Click to expand Image US President Donald Trump, left, talks with Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, during the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in...
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