El Salvador: Sweeping New Laws Endanger Rights
Click to expand Image Days after the government declared a 30-day state of emergency because of gang violence, President Nayib Bukele speaks at the induction of 1,440 new soldiers into the armed...
View ArticleRussia: Government Shuts Down Human Rights Watch Office
Click to expand Image The headquarters of Russia's Ministry of Justice in Moscow, December 4, 2017. © 2017 REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov (Berlin) – Russia’s Justice Ministry on April 8, 2022 canceled the...
View ArticleCameroon Needs to Protect Prisoners from Cholera Outbreak
At least six inmates in Cameroon’s second largest jail, the “New Bell” prison in Douala, have died since March from the country’s cholera outbreak. A bacterial disease that causes severe diarrhea and...
View ArticleIranian Society Pushes For End to Stadium Ban
Click to expand Image Iranian women cheer during a 2022 World Cup qualifier soccer match at the Azadi (Freedom) Stadium in Tehran, Iran, October 10, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Vahid Salemi Iranian...
View ArticleAsylum Seekers Face Real Harm from US Border Policy
Click to expand Image Asylum seeking families attend a traditional Las Posadas event at the US-Mexico border wall, on the Mexico side, December 15, 2020, in Douglas, Arizona. © 2020 AP Photo/Ross D....
View Article19th Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival
Click to expand Image The Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival poster featuring a still from ‘Klabona Keepers. The festival will run from May 26 to June 2, 2022. © 2022 Human Rights Watch The 19th...
View ArticlePeru: Revoke Emergency Decrees
Click to expand Image Heavily armed police special forces arrive at a checkpoint in the Manchay district, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, to enforce a government decree prohibiting all residents of...
View ArticleUS: Unaffordable Insulin Endangers Lives
Click to expand Image Zoe Witt, a type 1 diabetic in Seattle, Washington, holds a 10-milliliter vial of Novolog, a name-brand insulin analog produced by the Danish company Novo Nordisk. © 2022 Bella...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: War Crimes Court’s First Trial
Click to expand Image The SCC courtroom in Bangui, where the first trial for serious international crimes committed since 2003, is set to begin on April 19. © 2022 Inès Laure N’Gopot (Nairobi) – The...
View ArticleBrazil Court Reviews Bolsonaro’s Environmental Policies
Click to expand Image The Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF) building in Brasilia on April 4, 2018. © 2018 Agencia Estado via AP Images Despite the continued roar of chainsaws clearing the...
View ArticleThe Human Rights Watch Film Festival Returns to New York
Click to expand Image The Janes by directors Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes. Photo courtesy of HBO. (New York) The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 33rd year, will present a full edition of 10...
View ArticleUS State Department Improves Reporting on Reproductive Rights
Click to expand Image A new mother holds her hour-old baby in the maternity ward at Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 2020. © 2020 Lynzy Billing In a new report released today,...
View ArticleAngola: Police Arrest, Charge 22 Peaceful Protesters
Click to expand Image Police officers in Luanda, Angola on December 26, 2021. © 2021 OSVALDO SILVA/AFP via Getty Images (Johannesburg) – Angolan authorities should immediately drop criminal charges...
View ArticleLebanon: Questions for Candidates About Rights
Click to expand Image Activists chant slogans demanding the end of corruption, in Beirut, Lebanon, October 20, 2020. © 2020 Marwan Naamani/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (Beirut) – Candidates for...
View ArticleBulgaria: Free Online Textbooks for Ukrainian Refugees
Click to expand Image Refugee children from Ukraine at a temporary shelter in Krakow, Poland. March 15, 2022. © Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via AP (Brussels) – A Bulgarian firm has begun providing free...
View ArticleThailand: Prominent Rights Defender Harassed
Click to expand Image Photo captured on a security camera of the alleged assailant, a woman wearing a mask and a black t-shirt. © 2022 Private (Bangkok) – The authorities in Thailand should urgently...
View ArticleGuatemala: High Stakes for Attorney General’s Nomination
Click to expand Image Guatemalan Attorney General Consuelo Porras, who is seeking re-election, speaks to the press after an interview with a nominating commission in Guatemala City, Wednesday, April...
View ArticleUK Local Elections: A Chance to Improve Children’s Lives
On May 5, voters across London will go to the polls to elect their new local government representatives.These elections will decide who runs London’s local authorities, which are responsible for...
View ArticleMaldives: Reforms Fall Short in Curbing Threats to Free Speech
Click to expand Image Soldiers secure a site after a bomb blast injured Mohamed Nasheed, the Maldives parliament speaker and former president, in the capital, Male, May 6, 2021. © 2021 AFP via Getty...
View ArticleIMF/World Bank: Targeted Safety Net Programs Fall Short on Rights Protection
Click to expand Image A woman and her child receive relief goods distributed by a community service center in Kathmandu, Nepal on June 4, 2021. © 2021 Sipa USA via AP (Washington, DC, April 14, 2022)...
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