Ukraine: New Findings on Russia’s Devastation of Mariupol War Crimes Inquiry Needed into Massive Loss of Civilian Life, Infrastructure The Russian assault on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in 2022...
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World + 17 more
Global Rights Crises Deepen as World Leaders Shy Away [EN/AR/ZH/DE/JA/PT/RU]
Principled Diplomacy Critical to Uphold Human Rights Framework (New York) – Global leaders have failed to take strong stands to protect human rights during 2023, a year of some of the worst crises...
Belarus: Crackdown Amid Growing Information Vacuum [EN/RU/BY]
Politically Motivated Repression; Attacks on Critics in Exile (Vilnius, January 11, 2024) – Belarusian authorities carried out a widespread and systematic crackdown on dissent and on the spread of...
Russia: New Heights on Repression [EN/RU]
No Space For Dissent, Opposition Pushed Into Exile or Behind Bars (Berlin, January 11, 2024) – During the second year of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian government increased war...
World Report 2024 - Events of 2023 [EN/AR/RU/DE]
This 34th annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in over 100 countries and territories worldwide in 2023. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff...
“Tanks On the Playground”: Attacks on Schools and Military Use of Schools in Ukraine [EN/RU/UK/DE]
Ukraine: War’s Toll on Schools, Children’s Future Damage from Military Use of Schools, Bombing, Shelling, Looting Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has devastated schools and kindergartens...
Ukraine: Apparent Russian Cluster Munition Attack [EN/DE/RU/UK]
9 Civilians Died in Lyman; Possible War Crime (Kyiv, August 4, 2023) – Nine civilians were killed and more than a dozen injured in an apparent Russian cluster munition attack on July 8, 2023, in a...
Ukraine: Civilian Deaths from Cluster Munitions [EN/RU/UK]
New Research Details Ukrainian Use of Widely Banned Weapon Ukrainian forces have used cluster munitions that caused deaths and serious injuries to civilians. Russian forces have extensively used...
Ukraine Promises Inquiry into Banned Landmine Use [EN/RU/UK]
Additional Evidence Underscores Need for Prompt, Thorough Investigation, Accountability (Kyiv, June 30, 2023) – The Ukrainian government should act on its expressed commitment not to use banned...
Kyrgyzstan + 1 more
"When We Moved, They Shot": Laws of War Violations in the September 2022 Kyrgyzstan – Tajikistan Border Conflict [EN/RU]
Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan: Apparent War Crimes in Border Conflict Justice Needed for Lethal Attacks on Civilians Forces from both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan killed and injured civilians in apparent war...
Ukraine: Izium Apartment Victims Need Justice [EN/DE/PT/RU/UK]
Digital Reconstruction Highlights Russian Forces' Deadly Attack (Kyiv, March 22, 2023) – Russian forces used a large air-delivered munition on an apartment building on March 9, 2022, in Izium,...
Ukraine: Banned Landmines Harm Civilians [EN/DE/PT/RU/UK]
Ukraine Should Investigate Forces’ Apparent Use; Russian Use Continues (Kyiv, January 31, 2023) – Ukraine should investigate its military’s apparent use of thousands of rocket-fired antipersonnel...
Uzbekistan: Bill Threatens Freedom of Expression, Media [EN/RU]
Amend Draft Law; Ensure Provisions Comply with International Law (Berlin, December 23, 2022) – Uzbekistan’s Information and Mass Communications Agency should withdraw a draft Information Code that,...
Belarus: New Laws Target Critics in Exile [EN/RU]
Arbitrary Deprivation of Citizenship; Politically Motivated Trials in Absentia (Vilnius, December 22, 2022) – Belarusian parliament passed legislative amendments to a 2002 citizenship law that could...
Ukraine: Russians Pillage Kherson Cultural Institutions
Belkis Wille Associate Director, Crisis and Conflict Division belkiswille (Kyiv, December 20, 2022) –Russian military forces and civilians operating under their orders pillaged thousands of valuable...
Doctor Describes Toll of Attack on Hospital in Southern Ukraine
“The Hospital Was My Home. Now It is in Ruins” Kseniya Kvitka Assistant Researcher On November 22, missiles hit the maternity ward of the Vilniansk district’s central hospital, in the Zaporizka...
Ukraine: Apparent Cluster Munitions Hit Kherson [EN/RU/UK]
Days After Leaving, Russian Forces Fired on City, Wounding Civilians (Kyiv, December 13, 2022) – Russian forces have apparently used cluster munitions on civilian populated areas of Kherson at least...
Russia: New Restrictions for ‘Foreign Agents’ [EN/RU]
(New York, December 1, 2022) – A new law entered into force in Russia that drastically expands the country’s oppressive and vast “foreign agents” legislation, Human Rights Watch said today. The law...
France + 7 more
My Son is Just Another Kid’: Experiences of Children Repatriated from Camps for ISIS Suspects and Their Families in Northeast Syria [EN/AR/RU]
Summary An 8-year-old boy in France loves Lego, dinosaurs, and wants to be an archaeologist when he grows up. A 5-year-old boy in Sweden enjoys hip hop music and choreographing dances for his...
Uzbekistan: Police Abuses in Autonomous Region Protests [EN/RU]
Excessive, Lethal Force in Karakalpakstan (Berlin) - Uzbek security forces unjustifiably used lethal force and other excessive responses to disperse mainly peaceful demonstrators on July 1 and 2,...