Rights groups urge governments to impose sanctions, including asset freezes and travel bans, on Hong Kong and Chinese officials over new 'security legislation' (www.hrw.org)
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Rights groups urge governments to impose sanctions, including asset freezes and travel bans, on Hong Kong and Chinese officials over new 'security legislation' (www.hrw.org)
National governments should strongly oppose the Hong Kong government’s introduction of so-called Article 23 national security legislation, which will further devastate human rights protections in Hong Kong, 86 civil society groups including Human Rights Watch, said in a joint statement....
UN’s financial troubles jeopardize critical human rights work as member states don't pay their dues, Human Rights Watch says (www.hrw.org)
The United States owes the most but continues to make partial payments. According to UN sources, the US owes $1.1 billion to the UN’s regular budget for 2023 and 2024 plus additional arrears. The Biden administration wants to pay, but Congress has not passed a budget that would allow it to do so....
World Court to Review 57-Year Israeli Occupation (www.hrw.org)
“The International Court of Justice is set for the first time to broadly consider the legal consequences of Israel’s nearly six-decades-long occupation and mistreatment of the Palestinian people,” said Clive Baldwin, senior legal adviser at Human Rights Watch....
Hungarian government’s interference with media freedom harms rule of law, prevents public from accessing information, Human Rights Watch says (www.hrw.org)
A new 29-page report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW), “‘I Can’t Do My Job as a Journalist’: The Systematic Undermining of Media Freedom in Hungary”, documents the increased obstacles and constraints independent journalists and media face under the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban....
Afghanistan: Aid Cutbacks, Taliban Abuses Imperil Health (www.hrw.org)
The loss of foreign assistance and Taliban restrictions on women and girls have impeded access to health care, jeopardizing their right to health, while education bans guarantee future shortages of female health workers, rights group says.
Open Letter: Civil Society Coalition Urges Canada to Stop Arms Transfers to Israel (www.hrw.org)
According to annual datasets published by Global Affairs Canada, over the last decade, Canada has exported more than$140-million (constant CAD) in military goods to Israel, including military aerospace components as well as bombs, missiles, explosives and associated parts. There is substantial concern that some of these weapons...
Beneath the Rubble: Documenting Devastation and Loss in Mariupol - (long read, includes images) (www.hrw.org)
A joint investigation by Human Rights Watch, Situ Research and Truth Hounds Investigation reveals the true scale of destruction and social harm the Russian aggressor has brought to the city of Mariupol and its 540,000 people in southeastern Ukraine. It was a place as rich in culture as it was in industry, strategically placed on...
China: Carmakers Implicated in Uyghur Forced Labor, Rights Group Says (www.hrw.org)
Global carmakers, including General Motors, Tesla, BYD, Toyota, and Volkswagen, are failing to minimize the risk of Uyghur forced labor being used in their aluminum supply chains, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today....
[2010] Israel: Soldiers’ Punishment for Using Boy as ‘Human Shield’ Inadequate (www.hrw.org)
[2010] Israel: Soldiers’ Punishment for Using Boy as ‘Human Shield’ Inadequate (www.hrw.org)
China: Religious Regulations Tighten for Uyghurs as New Laws Aim to ‘Sinicize’ Places of Worship, Practice in Largely Muslim Xinjiang (www.hrw.org)
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China: Carmakers Implicated in Uyghur Forced Labor, Rights Group Says (www.hrw.org)
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As the International Court of Justice (ICJ) heard South Africa’s case of Israel's alleged genocide, could the court address women’s rights in Afghanistan? (www.hrw.org)
The ICJ is mainly responsible for settling disputes between states over matters of international law. Some of its recent cases have concerned human rights. In November 2019, Gambia brought a case under the Genocide Convention against Myanmar regarding alleged genocide against ethnic Rohingya. In June 2023, the Netherlands and...
China: Religious Regulations Tighten for Uyghurs as New Laws Aim to ‘Sinicize’ Places of Worship, Practice in Largely Muslim Xinjiang (www.hrw.org)
The Chinese government’s revised regulations in the Xinjiang region tighten controls over the religious practices of the predominantly Muslim ethnic Uyghurs, Human Rights Watch says....
Germany Throws a Spanner in Works of the EU Supply Chain Law, Human Rights Watch Says (www.hrw.org)
For over three years, European institutions have worked hard to develop and negotiate a groundbreaking EU supply chain law, with the aim of preventing and addressing human rights and environmental harm throughout companies’ supply chains. In mid-December, many celebrated the hard-reached agreement between the EU Council and...
Rights group urges US company Thermo Fisher Scientific to stop supplying China’s regime with DNA surveillance tech (www.hrw.org)
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Rights group urges US company Thermo Fisher Scientific to stop supplying China’s regime with DNA surveillance tech (www.hrw.org)
The U.S. biomedical company Thermo Fisher Scientific announced on Jan. 5 that it will no longer sell human DNA identification technology to the Chinese police in the Tibet Autonomous Region. In 2019, it had made a similar decision to halt the sale of these products in Xinjiang, the northwestern region where the Chinese...
Rights group urges Nigeria to act on UN review's rights concerns: "abolish death penalty, hold security forces to account, address sexual violence" (www.hrw.org)
The Nigerian government should adopt and act on recommendations made by member states at the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process earlier this week....
Prince Edward Island joins eight other provinces to block the Canada Border Services Agency from using provincial jails to incarcerate migrants and asylum seekers on administrative grounds (www.hrw.org)
The use of provincial jails for immigration detention is punitive, inconsistent with international human rights standards, and devastating to people’s mental health. In a 2021 report, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International documented that racialized people, and in particular Black men, are confined in more restrictive...
"Cancer Alley:" Fossil fuel industry in the Louisiana area has devastated the health, lives, and environment of residents, Human Rights Watch says in a report (www.hrw.org)
The 98-page report, “‘We’re Dying Here’: The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone,” documents how residents of Cancer Alley suffer the effects of extreme pollution from the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry, facing elevated rates and risks of maternal, reproductive, and newborn health harms,...
Human Rights Watch accuses Facebook-parent Meta of falling short to protect LGBT people from harassment and doxxing (www.hrw.org)
Human Rights Watch interviewed dozens of LGBT people who indicated that they had reported being harassed, doxxed, outed, and abused on Facebook and Instagram, but in all these cases, Meta either did not respond to their complaints or found that the content they reported did not violate its policies, and the content remained...
Questions and Answers: Facebook, Instagram, and Digital Targeting of LGBT People in MENA (www.hrw.org)
On January 23, 2024, Human Rights Watch, Social Media Exchange (SMEX), INSM Foundation for Digital Rights, Helem, and Damj Association, launched [link to presser] the “Secure Our Socials” campaign engaging Meta (Facebook, Instagram) to be more transparent and accountable in protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender...
North Korean government in 2023 continued to use the Covid-19 pandemic as a pretext to maintain “shoot on sight” orders on its northern border, rights group says (www.hrw.org)
The excessive and disproportionate restrictions imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic have compounded the effects of decades of the North Korean government’s violations of the rights to food, health, and to an adequate standard of living; and to freedom of expression and movement, according to Human Rights Watch....
Israel: Starvation Used as Weapon of War in Gaza (www.hrw.org)
The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the Gaza Strip, which is a war crime....
