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March 29, 2024 News

Government Should Further Expand Prohibition on Restraining Pregnant People

During a Diet session last week, Japan’s Ministry of Justice announced it had broadened a directive initially sent to all penal institutions in 2014 that effectively bans the use of restraints on imprisoned pregnant women inside delivery rooms. The…
A sign in Japanese reads "check door lock" on a gate inside Tochigi prison
March 29, 2024 News

Authorities Should Condemn, Punish Not Condone Ill-Treatment

(Berlin, March 29, 2024) – Russian authorities tortured, recorded, and shared recordings of the torture, of at least two men held as suspects for the monstrous March 22, 2024 attack on a concert hall, Human Rights Watch said today. Photographs and…
Federal Security Service officials bring Dalderjon Mirzoev, a suspect in the Crocus City Hall's massacre, to the Basmanny District Court in Moscow on March 24, 2024.
March 29, 2024 News

Peacekeeping Agency Should Make Findings Public

(New York) – The United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) should release the findings of its investigation into two Israeli strikes on a group of journalists in south Lebanon on October 13, 2023, 16 NGOs and journalist groups said today in a…
Reuters' journalist Issam Abdallah films an interview amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, April 17, 2022.
March 29, 2024 News

Amendments Could Weaken Restrictions on Child Marriage, FGM

(Nairobi) – Somalia’s parliament should reject any proposed constitutional amendments that would weaken rights protections for children, Human Rights Watch said today. On March 30, 2024, both houses of parliament are expected to vote on the…
Somali members of Parliament vote on a resolution on the procedural rules for constitutional amendments, Mogadishu, Somalia, January 24, 2024.
March 28, 2024 News

12 People Face a Year or Six Months in Prison, Fines

(Beirut) – A Saudi court sentenced 12 football fans from six months up to a year in prison on March 27, 2024, for peacefully chanting during a January football match, Human Rights Watch said today. Saudi authorities should immediately quash the…
Inter Milan's players lift the trophy to celebrate winning the Italian SuperCup football match at the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh on January 18, 2023.
March 28, 2024 News

Stop Harassment, Ensure Independent Investigation into Maseko’s Killing

On March 27, immigration officials at the Ngwenya Border post between South Africa and Eswatini stopped Tanele Maseko, widow of murdered human rights lawyer and opposition activist Thulani Maseko, along with her two young children and her helper while…
A vigil decrying the assassination of Eswatini Human Rights Lawyer Thulani Maseko in Nakuru Town, Kenya, January 30, 2023.
March 28, 2024 News

Thirteen Soldiers Detained for Brutal Beating of Papuan Man

The Indonesian military apologized to “all Papuan people” and detained 13 soldiers from an elite battalion in West Java who had tortured a Papuan man in Gome, Central Papua. A video posted to social media shows three soldiers in army undershirts…
A video still shows Indonesian soldiers seriously mistreating a Papuan man in their custody in Gome, Central Papua, March 2024.
March 28, 2024 News
FOR activists, journalists, and dissidents fleeing their home countries, safety is increasingly hard to find. They are targeted for their work even when on foreign soil. This insidious reach of governments to commit abuses beyond their borders has been…
March 28, 2024 News

Investigations Needed Into Indiscriminate Drone Strikes, Summary Killings

Malian armed forces and Wagner Group foreign fighters unlawfully killed and summarily executed several dozen civilians in counterinsurgency operations in Mali’s central and northern regions since December. Mali’s Russia-backed transitional…
Mali’s Foreign Affairs Minister Abdoulaye Diop (left) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a joint press conference following talks in Moscow, February 28, 2024.
March 28, 2024 News

The “Judicial Bypass” Process Assumes Parents Are the Only Adults to Support, Guide Youth

The US state of Michigan may protect abortion rights in its constitution, but a key group remains in the lurch – people younger than 18. Parental consent to obtain an abortion is mandatory for Michigan’s minors, and those who cannot or don’t want to…
Florida abortion graphic
March 28, 2024 News

New Report Examines Law and Calls for Repeal

A Michigan law that requires a young person to obtain parental consent to have an abortion threatens the health and safety of youth in the state and violates their human rights. In some cases, disclosing a pregnancy to a parent will result in…
A girl stands in front of a judge in a courtroom
March 28, 2024 Report
Summary The hypocrisy of the law is the notion that someone is not mature enough to make this decision on their own, but they are mature enough to carry a pregnancy to term. —Kylee Sunderlin, Michigan judicial bypass attorney, March 9, 2023…
March 28, 2024 News

No Access to Livelihoods; Dangerous Smuggling to Reach other Areas of Syria

(Beirut) – Turkish authorities are deporting or otherwise pressuring thousands of Syrians to leave the country to Tel Abyad, a remote Turkish-occupied district of northern Syria where humanitarian conditions are dire, Human Rights Watch said today.…
The Tel Abyad border crossing in northern Raqqa, Syria, pictured on October 6, 2022.
March 28, 2024 News

Basic Security Key to Restoring Rights, Democratic Governance, Rule of Law

(Washington, DC, March 28, 2024) – United Nations Security Council members should address the deteriorating situation in Haiti by keeping their promise to the Haitian people and urgently acting to restore basic security, Human Rights Watch said in a…
Haitians forced to flee their homes amid spiraling criminal violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on March 9, 2024. 
March 27, 2024 News

Groundbreaking Legislation Would Secure Equal Rights for LGBT People

(Bangkok) – The Thai parliament’s upper house should promptly pass a same-sex marriage bill that the lower house approved by an overwhelming majority on March 27, 2024, Human Rights Watch said today. Thailand would become the first country in…
Women kiss while holding a poster to support marriage equality, during a Pride Parade in Bangkok, Thailand, June 4, 2023. ©2023 AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File
March 27, 2024 News

98th Pre-Sessional Working Group

We write in advance of the 98th pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (“the Committee”) and its review of Iraq. This submission focuses on ill-treatment in government-run detention centers, corporal punishment, the right to education,…
March 27, 2024 News

98th Pre-Sessional Working Group

We write in advance of the 98th pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (“the Committee”) and its review of Pakistan. This submission focuses on the right to free and compulsory education and the protection of education from attack…

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