Human 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...
View ArticlePoland: Scrap Bill Suspending Right To Asylum
Click to expand Image A Polish soldier patrols the metal barrier border with Belarus, in Bialowieza Forest, with migrants stranded on the Belarusian side, May 29, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo/Czarek...
View ArticleMexico: Serious Deficiencies in Homicide Investigations
Officials from the forensic medical service place unidentified bodies in a mass grave near Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, March 15, 2024. © 2024 Luis Torres/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Mexican...
View ArticleInvestigate Uzbekistan Deaths, Serious Injuries in Custody
Click to expand Image An empty courtroom in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital. © 2004 Jason Eskenazi Two men died in custody in Uzbekistan in recent days, and a third man is in the hospital unresponsive...
View ArticleOpenly Gay Imam Gunned Down in South Africa
Click to expand Image Imam Muhsin Hendricks at the Inner Circle Mosque, in Wynberg, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2, 2016. © 2016 Rodger Bosch/AFP via Getty Images On February 15, Muhsin...
View ArticleRussia: Year After Navalny’s Death, Supporters Targeted
Click to expand Image Police watch a woman as she lays flowers in memory of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny a year after his death at the Memorial to the Victims of Political Repressions in...
View ArticleMali: Armed Islamist Attack on Convoy Kills 34 Civilians
Click to expand Image One of the buses burned in the attack in Kobe, Mali, February 7, 2025. © 2025 Private (Nairobi) – An apparent Islamist armed group attacked a civilian convoy escorted by Malian...
View ArticleGuinean ‘Disappeared’ Activist Resurfaces with Marks of Torture
Click to expand Image Conakry, Guinea, September 2024. © 2024 Private A prominent civil society leader in Guinea, Abdoul Sacko, went missing in the early hours of February 19, 2025, after gunmen took...
View ArticleThai Opposition Members Face Possible Lifetime Ban from Politics
Click to expand Image Former Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat speaks at a press conference alongside former MFP members of parliament, after Thailand's Constitutional Court dissolved the...
View ArticleWhat Policymakers Should Prioritize on Ukraine
Click to expand Image A woman collects wood for heating from a destroyed school where Russian forces were based in Izium, Ukraine, September 19, 2022. © 2022 Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo Russia’s war...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan: Address Death Threats Against Imprisoned Journalist
Click to expand Image Makhabat Tazhibek Kyzy. © Private (Bishkek, February 21, 2025) – Kyrgyzstani authorities should urgently take all necessary measures to ensure the ongoing safety and security of...
View ArticleA Bleak Future for Democracy in Niger
Click to expand Image The head of Niger's military junta, Brig. Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani, attends the opening of the commission responsible for conducting the national conference in Niamey, February...
View ArticleThai Opposition Members Face Possible Lifetime Ban from Politics
Click to expand Image Former Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat speaks at a press conference alongside former MFP members of parliament, after Thailand's Constitutional Court dissolved the...
View ArticleOverdue Accountability in Democratic Republic of Congo
Click to expand Image Rwanda minister of state and former military commander, Gen. James Kabarebe, in Kigali, September 12, 2012. © 2012 Sylvain Liechti/Monusco Until now, the international response...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Egyptian at Risk of Forced Return
(Beirut) – Saudi authorities should not extradite an Egyptian citizen to Egypt, where he is at serious risk of arbitrary detention and torture, Human Rights Watch said today. Click to expand Image...
View ArticleMass Protests in Greece Over State Response to Fatal Train Crash
Click to expand Image Flowers and the names of the victims of the Tempi train accident are displayed during a sit-in protest organized by the Association of Relatives of the Tempi Victims in Athens,...
View ArticleEU: No ‘Business as Usual’ at Association Council with Israel
Click to expand Image Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, December 16, 2024. © 2024 European Union (Brussels) – European...
View ArticleEl Salvador: Children to Be Moved to Adult Prisons
Click to expand Image A woman at a demonstration shows a photo of her son who was detained during the state of emergency on May 31, 2024, in San Salvador, El Salvador. © 2024 Carlos Barrera...
View ArticleUN Chief Should Propose Transforming Kenyan-led Haiti Mission into UN Operation
Click to expand Image A Kenyan police officer, part of a UN-backed multinational force, patrols a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, December 5, 2024. © 2024 Odelyn Joseph/AP Photo The United Nations...
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