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May 3, 2024 News

Attacks Target Afghanistan’s Hazaras

Inadequate Protection Provided for Community Long at Risk

For many Afghans, the country’s armed conflict has never ended. The armed group Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) attracted worldwide attention in March when it attacked the Crocus City Hall in Moscow, killing at least 143 people and…
A crowd surrounds a burial site
May 3, 2024 News

France: Macron Should Stand Firm on Rights in China

Xi Jinping’s Visit a Chance to Address Chinese Government’s Grave Abuses

(Paris) – French President Emmanuel Macron should lay out consequences for the Chinese government’s crimes against humanity and deepening repression during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Paris, Human Rights Watch said today. Xi’s visit on May…
French President Emmanuel Macron and China's President Xi Jinping
May 3, 2024 News

Human Rights Watch Launches Podcast

‘Rights & Wrongs’ Tells Stories from Human Rights Hotspots Around the Globe 

(New York) – Human Rights Watch will present a podcast twice a month starting May 6, 2024, that will explore human rights hotspots around the world through the eyes and ears of people on the front lines. Rights & Wrongs will take listeners behind…
Two women take notes and interview a man outside
May 2, 2024 News

Recognizing Journalists Living in Exile

Human Rights Press Awards Spotlight Exiled Newsrooms Reporting on Asia

Around the world, journalists who have been forced to flee their countries have continued to report on their homelands, exposing ongoing human rights violations while living in exile. Today, May 3, is World Press Freedom Day. But independent media…
Women journalists being filmed in a tv news studio
May 2, 2024 News

Asia: 2024 Human Rights Press Awards

Top Prizes for Reporting on Suicide Among Afghan Women, Persecution in Myanmar

(Taipei) – Today, marking World Press Freedom Day, Human Rights Press Awards in Asia announced the 2024 winners and runners-up. The seven categories of awards are administered by Human Rights Watch, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass…
The staff of the newspaper Etilaat Roz, keep on working even after the Taliban took control of the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 19, 2021.
May 2, 2024 News

Tajikistan: Forcibly Disappeared Opponent Allegedly Tortured

Provide Whereabouts, Urgent Medical Care; and Release Activist

(Berlin, May 3, 2024) – Tajik authorities should immediately confirm the detention and whereabouts of and release the opposition activist Sukhrob Zafar, Human Rights Watch, Norwegian Helsinki Committee, and International Partnership for Human Rights…
Suhrob Zafar
May 2, 2024 News

Nepal's Opportunity to Protect Children in New Budget

Extending Universal Child Grant Program Would Enhance Social Protection, Strengthen Country’s Future

When Nepal’s Finance Minister Barshaman Pun presents the budget on May 28, he has an opportunity to extend the country’s Child Grant program. Doing so would advance the economic and social rights of Nepali children, helping families across the country…
A woman and two young girls sit at a bus station
May 2, 2024 News

Thailand’s Upcoming Senate Election Fundamentally Flawed

Electoral Rules Designed to Maintain Status Quo

Thailand’s Senate election slated for June will not undo the legacy of military rule but will obstruct the restoration of democratic rule. The current Senate, appointed by the military junta in power from 2014 to 2019, expires on May 11. The…
A protest sign that reads "Senators! Respect our democracy!"
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"

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