Philippine police are falsifying evidence to justify unlawful killings in a “war on drugs” that has caused more than 7,000 deaths.President Rodrigo Duterte and other senior officials have instigated and incited killings of mostly urban poor in a campaign that could amount to crimes against humanity.
The United Nations should urgently create an independent, international investigation into the killings to determine responsibility, and ensure mechanisms for accountability.
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(Nairobi, February 16, 2017) – A rebel group in the Central African Republic executed at least 32 civilians and captured fighters after clashes in December 2016 with another rebel group in the Ouak...
Widows in Zimbabwe are routinely evicted from their homes and land, and their property is stolen by in-laws when their husbands die. The government of Zimbabwe should urgently take steps to protect...
A recently formed armed group called “Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation,” or 3R, has killed civilians, raped, and caused largescale displacement over the past year in northwest Central African Re...
(Nairobi, November 1, 2016) – Seleka rebels killed at least 37 civilians, wounded 57, and forced thousands to flee when they razed a camp for displaced people in the Central African Republic on Oct...
Boko Haram’s attacks on schools, students and teachers in northeast Nigeria have had a devastating impact on education. The conflict has left nearly one million children with little or no access to...
Malawi’s government has failed to protect the rights and livelihoods of people living in nascent mining communities, Human Rights Watch said today in a report released on eve of the International R...
(Nairobi, September 15, 2016) – Kenya’s repatriation program for Somali refugees, fueled by fear and misinformation, does not meet international standards for voluntary refugee return, Human Rights...
Kenyan security forces have forcibly disappeared at least 34 people in the past two years during abusive counterterrorism operations in Nairobi and in northeastern Kenya. The military was actively ...
Activists from across Africa clarify misconceptions about the International Criminal Court and highlight the need for African governments to support the court in this video by 21 African and intern...
Ethiopian security forces have killed more than 400 protesters and others, and arrested tens of thousands more during widespread protests in the Oromia region since November 2015. Human Rights Watc...
The Venezuelan government has targeted critics of its ineffective efforts to alleviate severe shortages of essential medicines and food while the crisis persists. Regional governments should press ...
The Venezuelan government has targeted critics of its ineffective efforts to alleviate severe shortages of essential medicines and food while the crisis persists. Regional governments should press ...
(Washington, DC, 24 de outubro de 2016) – O governo da Venezuela tem atacado aqueles que criticam seus esforços inefetivos para aliviar a escassez de alimentos e de medicamentos essenciais enquanto...
(Washington, DC, 24 de outubro de 2016) – O governo da Venezuela tem atacado aqueles que criticam seus esforços inefetivos para aliviar a escassez de alimentos e de medicamentos essenciais enquanto...
Since May 2016, the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional, SEBIN) and National Guard have detained 21 people on allegations that they were planning...
O estado do Rio de Janeiro prometeu avanços na segurança pública em preparação para as Olimpíadas, mas não fez o suficiente para resolver o problema das execuções extrajudicias cometidas pela polic...
Rio de Janeiro state promised improvements in public security in preparation for the Olympics, but it has not done enough to address extrajudicial executions by police, a central obstacle to more e...
In 2013, the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal retroactively removed citizenship from tens of thousands of Dominicans. Most of them are of Haitian descent – a historically marginalized community. T...
(Buenaventura, March 4, 2015) Paramilitary successor groups are abducting, “disappearing,” and dismembering residents of the mostly Afro-Colombian port of Buenaventura, despite government measures ...
(Kabul, 13. Februar 2017) - Pakistanische Behörden haben seit Juli 2016 durch Gewalt und Drohungen fast 600.000 Afghanen zurück nach Afghanistan gezwungen, so Human Rights Watch in einem heute verö...
Refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants with disabilities are not properly identified and do not enjoy equal access to services in reception centers in Greece, Human Rights Watch said today. To...
Washington, DC, 12. Januar 2017 – Das Erstarken populistischer Kräfte in den Vereinigten Staaten und in Europa stellt eine gefährliche Bedrohung für die universellen Grundrechte dar und ermutigt au...
Journalisten in den westlichen Balkanstaaten arbeiten in einer feindlichen Umgebung, die kritische und unabhängige Berichterstattung, welche für eine demokratische Gesellschaft unerlässlich sind, e...
Millionen von Kinder riskieren Schmerzen, Krankheiten, Verletzungen und sogar den Tod, um für die Weltwirtschaft Handelsgüter zu produzieren. Human Rights Watch hat in der Landwirtschaft, im Minenb...
België heeft het afgelopen jaar een reeks problematische terrorismebestrijdingswetten aangenomen, schrijft Human Rights Watch in een rapport dat vandaag is vrijgegeven. Ook gaat de politie hardhand...
België heeft het afgelopen jaar een reeks problematische terrorismebestrijdingswetten aangenomen, schrijft Human Rights Watch in een rapport dat vandaag is vrijgegeven. Ook gaat de politie hardhand...
Belgium has enacted a raft of problematic counterterrorism laws and its police have carried out heavy-handed operations in the past year. Those responsible for horrific attacks in Paris on November...
Belgium has enacted a raft of problematic counterterrorism laws and its police have carried out heavy-handed operations in the past year. Those responsible for horrific attacks in Paris on November...
The Azerbaijani government has renewed its vicious crackdown on critics and independent groups.The European Union and international financial institutions have a rare opportunity to insist on human...
Governments and intergovernmental organizations should denounce the worsening human rights crisis in Tajikistan, Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee said in a video released tod...
Philippine police are falsifying evidence to justify unlawful killings in a “war on drugs” that has caused more than 7,000 deaths.President Rodrigo Duterte and other senior officials have instigate...
Burma’s government should act to end the prosecution of peaceful critics in violation of their right to free speech. The National League for Democracy (NLD)-led government should seek to amend or r...
(New York, December 21, 2016) –The Burmese military has conducted a campaign of arson, killing and rape against ethnic Rohingya that has threatened the lives of thousands more.
Police in India often bypass arrest procedures and torture suspects in custody to death. At least 591 people died in police custody in India between 2010 and 2015, according to official data. One o...
(Manila) – The Philippine government is fueling a rising human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic among men who have sex with men through policies that restrict interventions proven to prevent t...
Burma’s government should urgently act to end the unlawful seizure of land in Karen State, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Officials regularly charge villagers with criminal tre...
The Afghan government is failing to protect tens of thousands of children, some as young as 5, from hazardous conditions in the workplace, in violation of Afghanistan’s labor laws. Children work da...
Widows in Zimbabwe are routinely evicted from their homes and land, and their property is stolen by in-laws when their husbands die. The government of Zimbabwe should urgently take steps to protect...
Hundreds of Serbian children with disabilities face neglect and isolation in institutions that may lead to stunted intellectual, emotional, and physical development. The Serbian government has made...
Louisiana fails to provide basic HIV services to thousands of inmates in parish jails, endangering the health of individuals and the communities to which they return, Human Rights Watch said in a r...
Malawi’s government has failed to protect the rights and livelihoods of people living in nascent mining communities, Human Rights Watch said today in a report released on eve of the International R...
Hundreds of Serbian children with disabilities face neglect and isolation in institutions that may lead to stunted intellectual, emotional, and physical development. The Serbian government has made...
Stotine dece sa invaliditetom u Srbiji suočavaju se sa zanemarivanjem i izolacijom u ustanovama, što može dovesti do usporenog intelektualnog, emotivnog i fizičkog razvoja. Vlada Republike Srbije u...
Canada has abundant water, yet water in many indigenous communities in Ontario is not safe to drink, Human Rights Watch said in a new report today. The water on which many of Canada’s First Nations...
Approximately 20 years after initially coming to international attention, an estimated 20 million people in Bangladesh – mostly rural poor – still drink water contaminated over the national standard.
Louisiana fails to provide basic HIV services to thousands of inmates in parish jails, endangering the health of individuals and the communities to which they return. Only a handful of the state’s ...
People with psychosocial disabilities (mental health conditions) in Indonesia are shackled or forced into institutions where they often face physical and sexual violence, involuntary treatment incl...
Dozens of transgender women, including asylum seekers who have come to the United States seeking protection from abuse in their home countries, are locked up in jails or prison-like immigration det...
(Manila) – The Philippine government is fueling a rising human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic among men who have sex with men through policies that restrict interventions proven to prevent t...
Many schools across the United States remain hostile environments for LGBT students despite significant progress on LGBT rights in recent years. The concerns include bullying and harassment, exclus...
Transgender people and others who don’t conform to social expectations about gender face discrimination and abuse in Sri Lanka, including arbitrary detention, mistreatment, and discrimination acces...
The Indonesian government stoked an unprecedented attack on the security and rights of sexual and gender minorities in early 2016. The government campaign included hateful rhetoric, discriminatory ...
Countries around the world should ban the practice of conducting forced anal examinations on men and transgender women accused of consensual same-sex conduct. These examinations, which have been re...
The Japanese government has failed to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students from school bullying. Government policies addressing bullying do not specifically address LGBT...
The Japanese government has failed to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students from school bullying. Government policies addressing bullying do not specifically address LGBT...
Dozens of transgender women, including asylum seekers who have come to the United States seeking protection from abuse in their home countries, are locked up in jails or prison-like immigration det...
(Nairobi, September 28, 2015) – Mobs in Kenya’s coastal region have repeatedly attacked people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, PEMA Kenya and Human Rights Watch said in a rep...
(Moscow - December 15, 2014 ) – Russian authorities have failed in their obligation to prevent and prosecute homophobic violence. Growing numbers of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) p...
Iraqi forces have forcibly displaced at least 125 families said to have familial ties to affiliates of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS). Sunni tribal groups (known as the Hashad al-Asha’ri) w...
Two years of living under ISIS and then caught in the middle of a raging battle. This is what life has been like for hundreds of thousands of civilians in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. The Ira...
Refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants with disabilities are not properly identified and do not enjoy equal access to services in reception centers in Greece, Human Rights Watch said today. To...
Two Bahrainis appear to be at imminent risk of execution despite the authorities’ failure to properly investigate their allegations of torture. Both Mohamed Ramadan and Husain Ali Moosa have disavo...
Laut des 80seitigen Berichts „‚Wir leben in Gräbern‘: Missbrauch in Ägyptens Gefängnis Skorpion“ misshandeln Justizvollzugsbeamte eines Kairoer Hochsicherheitsgefängnisses mit vielen politischen Ge...
The Saudi Arabia-led coalition killed 31 civilians in apparently unlawful airstrikes in September 2016. The coalition’s use of United States-supplied weapons in the strikes, including a bomb delive...
The Russian-Syrian coalition committed war crimes during a month-long aerial bombing campaign of opposition-controlled territory in Aleppo in September and October 2016, Human Rights Watch said tod...
(Erbil, November 13, 2016) – Security forces of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government have unlawfully destroyed large numbers of Arab homes, and sometimes entire villages, in areas retaken from the ...
The Egyptian authorities should stop imposing travel bans to prevent human rights defenders from leaving the country and speaking out about Egypt’s appalling human rights record, Amnesty Internatio...
Gulf governments have attempted to silence peaceful critics in response to a wave of online activism in recent years, Human Rights Watch said in an interactive website that began operating today. T...
Homemade landmines have killed and injured hundreds of civilians, including dozens of children, in Manbij, a city in northern Syria. The antipersonnel mines, often called improvised explosive devic...
The Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and Gaza are arresting, abusing, and criminally charging journalists and activists who express peaceful criticism of the authorities. The crackdown dire...
Governments should pledge political and financial support for sexual and reproductive health to counter the United States’ “Global Gag Rule,” Human Rights Watch said today. The Netherlands, Belgium...
New York State’s legislators and governor should back a proposed law to help end child marriage in New York, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to New York lawmakers. In the period from 2001...
(New York, November 9, 2016) – United States president-elect Donald Trump should abandon campaign rhetoric that seemed to reject many human rights obligations and govern for all as he promised.
Thousands of United States service members, who lost their military careers after reporting a sexual assault, live with stigmatizing discharge papers that prevent them from getting jobs and benefit...
The massive enforcement of laws criminalizing personal drug use and possession in the United States causes devastating harm. Enforcement ruins individual and family lives, discriminates against peo...
The massive enforcement of laws criminalizing personal drug use and possession in the United States causes devastating harm. Enforcement ruins individual and family lives, discriminates against peo...
A Tunisian man formerly held in secret United States Central Intelligence Agency custody have described previously unreported methods of torture that shed new light on the earliest days of the CIA ...
Thousands of United States service members, who lost their military careers after reporting a sexual assault, live with stigmatizing discharge papers that prevent them from getting jobs and benefit...
Thousands of United States service members, who lost their military careers after reporting a sexual assault, live with stigmatizing discharge papers that prevent them from getting jobs and benefit...
Louisiana fails to provide basic HIV services to thousands of inmates in parish jails, endangering the health of individuals and the communities to which they return. Only a handful of the state’s ...
Dozens of transgender women, including asylum seekers who have come to the United States seeking protection from abuse in their home countries, are locked up in jails or prison-like immigration det...