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Human Rights Watch (HRW) submits the following with respect to Belarus’s implementation of recommendations received during its 2020 Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This submission is neither a ...
The Chinese authorities should urgently quash the conviction and free the Taiwanese publisher Li Yanhe (李延賀), known by his ...
Romania’s history offers a disturbing, yet instructive, example. In 1966, the country’s communist government adopted “Decree ...
A 15-year-old girl was held inside the Palmerston police watch house for three nights after the Northern Territory Local Court recently withdrew an on-call judge service. National Children's ...
Human Rights Watch provided ample analysis to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which is developing a general recommendation on reparations, about the need ...
I oversee Human Rights Watch’s work on El Salvador and have traveled to the country several times, most recently in 2024. I provide this declaration based on my personal knowledge and experience.
The law, which curtails the right of assembly when it pertains to supporting LGBT rights, also authorizes authorities to use facial recognition technology to identify event organizers and ...
Israeli forces committed war crimes against sick patients while occupying hospitals in the Gaza Strip, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. The rights watchdog said the army "caused deaths ...
Witnesses at three hospitals told Human Rights Watch that Israeli forces denied electricity, water, food, and medicines to patients; shot civilians; mistreated health workers; and deliberately ...
“Ekrem İmamoğlu and others detained should be released from police custody immediately,” said Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The Erdoğan ...
Two weeks after it started rolling out, Wear OS 5.1 is now available on all three generations of the Pixel Watch. Here’s everything new with the first update in four months. The Active face on ...
“Pakistani officials should immediately stop coercing Afghans to return home and give those facing expulsion the opportunity to seek protection,” said Elaine Pearson, Asia director at New York-based ...