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May 2, 2024 News

Azerbaijan: Free Jailed Human Rights Defender

Anar Mammadli is Latest Target in Escalating Crackdown

(Berlin, May 2, 2024) – Azerbaijani authorities should immediately free a prominent human rights defender, Anar Mammadli, and drop the charges against him, the Human Rights House Foundation said this week in a statement signed by Human Rights Watch…
Anar Mammadli,
May 2, 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 2, 2024 News

Resounding Support for a ‘Killer Robots’ Treaty

Governments Should Raise Autonomous Weapons Concerns with UN

(Washington, DC, May 02, 2024) – Governments concerned about autonomous weapons systems – so-called killer robots – should urgently act to start negotiations on a new international treaty to ban and regulate them, Human Rights Watch said today. Such…
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg welcomes participants to the international “Humanity at the Crossroads” conference on autonomous weapons systems, in Vienna on April 29-30, 2024
May 2, 2024 News

Ukraine: Russian Forces Executed Surrendering Ukraine Soldiers

Hold Those Responsible to Account

(Kyiv, May 2, 2024) – Russian forces appear to have executed at least 15 Ukrainian soldiers as they attempted to surrender, and possibly six more who were surrendering or who had surrendered, since early December 2023, Human Rights Watch said today.…
A Ukrainian soldier stands in front of the graves of Ukrainian soldiers killed in the war at a cemetery in Kharkiv.
May 2, 2024 News

Kenya: Floods Threaten Marginalized People

Ensure Speedy Response to Protect Those at Risk

(Nairobi) – Kenyan authorities have not responded adequately to flash floods resulting from heavy rains, Human Rights Watch said today. The floods have left at least 170 people dead; displaced more than 200,000; destroyed property, infrastructure, and…
A family uses a boat after fleeing floodwaters that wreaked havoc in the Githurai area of Nairobi, Kenya, April 24, 2024.
May 1, 2024 News

Australia: Rights Vetting Crucial for Defence Cooperation

Use Bilateral Security Force Agreements to Reject Serious Violators

(Sydney) - The Australian government should include human rights vetting provisions in all bilateral security force cooperation agreements, Human Rights Watch said in a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Treaties. The…
Australian soldiers take part in training exercises in Townsville, Australia, June 30, 2023.
May 1, 2024 News

Thailand: Last-Ditch Effort for Tak Bai Massacre Justice

Victims’ Families File Criminal Charges in 20-Year Quest for Accountability

(Bangkok) – The Thai government should urgently bring to justice officials responsible for the deaths and injuries of scores of ethnic Malay Muslim protesters in Tak Bai district in 2004, Human Rights Watch said today. A failure to do so will call…
Families of Tak Bai victims hold a protest saying “justice has no expiry date"
May 1, 2024 News

Indonesia Court Ruling a Boon for Free Expression

Powerful People, Officials Misused Law to Silence Criticism

 “Historic,” said the activist Haris Azhar, describing Indonesia's Constitutional Court ruling in March to revoke three false news and defamation clauses from the country’s 1946 criminal code. The judges wanted to protect human rights, he said…
Haris Azhar after his trial at the East Jakarta court, delivering a speech from a truck outside the court house, January 8, 2024.
May 1, 2024 News

US: Digital Metering System Exposes Migrants to Harm

Asylum Turnbacks Violate Rights and Enrich Criminal Groups

(Mexico City) – The administrations of US President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador are forcing thousands of people seeking asylum in the US to wait for months in Mexico, exposing them to danger, Human Rights Watch said in…
A seated man using a cell phone
May 1, 2024 Report

“We Couldn’t Wait”

Summary When Sandra S., her husband, and their two young children arrived at the US-Mexico border, they thought they had reached safety. They had fled Michoacán, Mexico, after an armed member of a cartel forced his way into their home and…
April 30, 2024 News

Germany Falling Short in Curbing Anti-Muslim Racism

Gaps in Responses; Narrow Understanding; Lack of Data, Capacity

(Berlin, April 30, 2024) – The German government is falling short in protecting Muslims and people perceived to be Muslims from racism amid rising incidents of hate and discrimination, Human Rights Watch said today. The absence of a working definition…
Demonstrators mark the anniversary of a far-right extremist attack on February 19, 2020 in Hanau, Germany, that killed nine persons of predominantly Muslim background, February 17, 2024.
April 29, 2024 News

Environment Defenders Face New Wave of Oppression

We all have an interest in supporting people who are pressing governments to meet their obligations on climate change, whether they are protesting in the street, bringing cases to court, or even carrying out civil disobedience. Yet, as the climate…
Protesters rally in support of climate activist Deanna "Violet" Coco, who was sentenced to jail for helping to block the Sydney Harbour Bridge, outside the Downing Centre court building in Sydney, Australia, December 13, 2022.
April 29, 2024 News

Saudi Arabia: Halt Executions of Child Offenders

Death Penalty for Alleged Crimes Committed as Children

(Beirut) – Saudi Arabia’s court of appeal in April 2024 approved death sentences for two Saudi men for protest-related crimes allegedly committed as children, Human Rights Watch and 26 other organizations said today in a joint statement. Saudi…
Men hold placards bearing portraits of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, whose execution sparked demonstrations in 2016 by the country's minority Shia citizens against systematic governmental discrimination. Some of the alleged child offenders currently on trial were accused of attending similar protests. 
April 29, 2024 News

South Sudan: ‘Disappeared’ Critic Resurfaces

Spate of Forced Disappearances Points Up Need to Reform Security Agency

(Nairobi) – The reappearance in a South Sudan court of a former refugee who had been forcibly disappeared more than a year ago points up the urgent need to reform the National Security Service (NSS), Human Rights Watch said today. South Sudan…
Morris Mabior Awikjok Bak
April 29, 2024 News

UAE: Unfair Trial of Rights Defenders

Authorities Should End Prolonged Solitary Confinement, Drop Charges

(Beirut) – Emirati authorities are holding an unfair mass trial that has raised serious due process concerns, Human Rights Watch said today. The trial includes many defendants held in prolonged solitary confinement, which may amount to torture. In…
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