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May 9, 2024 News

Georgia: ‘Foreign Influence’ Bill Threatens Rights

Reject Measure; End Police Violence

 (Berlin, May 9, 2024) – The Georgian parliament’s introduction of a bill obliging certain nongovernmental groups and media outlets to register as “organizations serving the interests of a foreign power” threatens fundamental rights in the…
Tbilisi protests
May 9, 2024 News

Interview: “I Didn’t Think I Would Survive This”

Fleeing Ethnic Violence in El Geneina, West Darfur, Sudan

As a child in West Darfur, Jamal Abdallah Khamis, a 29-year-old ethnic Massalit man, grew up surrounded by violence. He survived the ethnic cleansing campaign perpetrated by Sudanese government forces and their allied militias, known as the “…
Jamal Abdullah Khamis.
May 9, 2024 Video

Sudan: Ethnic Cleansing in West Darfur

(Nairobi, May 9, 2024) – Attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias in El Geneina, the capital city of Sudan’s West Darfur state, in April to November 2023, killed at least thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands as refugees…
May 9, 2024 Report

“The Massalit Will Not Come Home”

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May 9, 2024 News

Sudan: Ethnic Cleansing in West Darfur

Thousands Killed, Half Million Remain Displaced

 Attacks by the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias in El Geneina, capital of Sudan’s West Darfur state, killed at least thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands as refugees.Committing serious violations that targeted the Massalit…
Burnt remains of a school
May 8, 2024 News

China Forcibly Returns 60 Refugees to North Korea

Returnees at Risk of Torture, Forced Labor

 The Chinese government forcibly returned about 60 North Korean refugees on April 26, putting them at grave risk of enforced disappearance, torture, sexual violence, wrongful imprisonment, forced labor, and execution.This round of forced returns…
Photos of the North Korean refugees helped by the North Korea Refugees Human Rights Association of Korea are displayed in Seoul, South Korea on June 11, 2019.
May 8, 2024 News

Philippines: Supreme Court Rejects ‘Red-Tagging’

Marcos Should End Abusive Practice that Puts Lives at Risk

 (Manila) – The Philippine Supreme Court issued a major ruling on May 8, 2024, declaring “red-tagging” a threat to people’s life, liberty, and security, Human Rights Watch said today. The Philippine government has been using red-tagging—accusing…
Protesters against “red tagging” gather in Quezon City, Philippines, on July 25, 2022.
May 8, 2024 News

Vietnam: False Claims on Labor Rights

Seeking US Trade Preferences, Hanoi Insists Workers Can Organize

 (Washington) – Vietnam is providing false or misleading information to the United States and other economic partners to secure or maintain preferential trade preferences, Human Rights Watch said today.The US Department of Commerce held a public…
Do Hung Viet, Vietnam’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, at the Universal Periodic Review of Vietnam’s human rights record at the UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland, May 7, 2024
May 8, 2024 News

Ghana’s Support for New Free Education Treaty Crucial

Ghana has been at the forefront of Africa in providing free education to its children.

 Now, as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, there is a crucial role it could play in making free education a reality for more children around the world. Members of the United Nations (UN) are being asked to support a new…
Caption: Students reading in a classroom. Accra, Ghana, January 16, 2013.
May 8, 2024 News

Indonesian Government Acts to Protect Student Media

University Leaders Should Bolster Press Freedom on Campus

 As student journalists in Indonesia face increasing intimidation, censorship, and newsroom closures, the Ministry of Education has agreed to have the national Press Council mediate all defamation disputes involving student journalists and…
Participants at a student-journalist organized conference on the “legal umbrella” (payung hukum) of laws and regulations that protect media outlets, in Solo, Central Java, May 2023.
May 8, 2024 News

US Universities: Respect Peaceful Protests for Palestinians

(New York) – Human Rights Watch has for many years extensively documented grave abuses and repression in Israel and Palestine. Students at US public and private universities have engaged in peaceful protests against Israel’s ongoing…
May 8, 2024 News

Use of Force in the Occupied West Bank

Questions and Answers on the Applicable International Law

 The following questions and answers address the international legal framework applicable to violence and the use of force in the West Bank. Human Rights Watch in October 2023 published a question-and-answer document focused on the international…
Israeli forces enter the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus during a large-scale search-and-arrest operation on November 23, 2023. 
May 8, 2024 News

Mali: Islamist Armed Groups, Ethnic Militias Commit Atrocities

Provide Accountability, Improve Protection for Civilians

 (Nairobi) – An Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist armed group killed at least 32 civilians, including 3 children, and set fire to over 350 homes in central Mali in January 2024, forcing about 2,000 villagers to flee, Human Rights Watch said today.…
A road going from Mali to Burkina Faso
May 8, 2024 News

West Bank: Israeli Forces’ Unlawful Killings of Palestinians

Lethal Shootings Show Disregard for Legal Standards

 Israeli security forces have unlawfully used lethal force in fatal shootings of Palestinians, including deliberately executing Palestinians who posed no apparent security threat, based on documentation of several cases since 2022.The United Nations…
Israeli forces enter the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus during a large-scale search-and-arrest operation on November 23, 2023. 
May 7, 2024 News

Trinidad and Tobago: Bring Home Children, Women Held in Iraq

Boys Forcibly Separated from Mother Highlights Health Concerns

 (New York) – The government of Trinidad and Tobago should urgently bring home Trinidadian children and their mothers imprisoned in Iraq because of their alleged association with the Islamic State (ISIS), Human Rights Watch said today. Four…
Women and children wait in a holding cell
May 7, 2024 News

Letter to H.E. Mohammed Abu Zafar Regarding June 2022 Floods in Bangladesh

Advocacy Letter to the Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United Arab Emirates

April 15, 2024H.E. Mohammed Abu ZafarAmbassador of Bangladesh to the United Arab EmiratesEmbassy of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Abu DhabiVilla No. 46,48, Sector. 19, Zone. W31P.O. Box 2504, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesSent via email: mission.…
May 7, 2024 News

Gaza: Israel Flouts World Court Orders

Aid Still Being Obstructed Despite Famine

 (Jerusalem) – Israel is contravening the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) legally binding orders by obstructing the entry of lifesaving aid and services into Gaza, Human Rights Watch said today. Since January 2024, the court has twice ordered…
Egyptian trucks carrying humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza Strip queue outside the Rafah border crossing on the Egyptian side on March 23, 2024.
May 7, 2024 News

Progress in Philippines’ Media Murder Cases Just a Start

Marcos Administration Needs to End ‘Red-Tagging,’ Enhance Prosecutions

 Advocates of media freedom in the Philippines got some good news within days of World Press Freedom Day on May 3. On April 29, police arrested a third suspect in the on-air shooting of radio broadcaster Juan Jumalon in Mindanao. And a…
Activists call for justice and protection of media workers during a rally following the killing of radio journalist Percy Lapid, Quezon City, Philippines, October 4, 2022.

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