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A Saudi Arabia court has sentenced a man to 20 years in prison on charges related to his tweets. Yet another outrageous, decades-long sentence demonstrates that the Saudi authorities are willing to crush any and all dissent.
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NEW: Ethiopian security forces have committed widespread attacks amounting to war crimes against medical professionals, patients, and health facilities in the Amhara region. Ethiopia’s international partners should call for accountability and an end to attacks on healthcare.
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Personal photos of Australian children are being used to create powerful AI tools without the knowledge or consent of the children or their families. These photos are scraped off the web into a large data set that companies then use to train their AI tools.
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New arrest warrants by International Criminal Court judges were issued this week against former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and chief of the general staff of Russia’s armed forces, Valery Gerasimov. These warrants are a significant step toward accountability for crimes in Ukraine.
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Over 1,300 Muslim pilgrims reportedly died during the annual Hajj this month in Saudi Arabia, where temperatures have soared beyond 50 degrees Celsius. Saudi authorities have an obligation to protect people’s health from known hazards like extreme heat.
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Over 20 years ago, Andrew Stroehlein visited Xinjiang and saw how Chinese authorities were erasing Uyghur culture. This trend of cultural erasure has only intensified.
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NEW: Russian authorities are imposing the Russian curriculum, anti-Ukrainian propaganda, and Russian as language of instruction in schools in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine. This violates the laws of armed conflict and the right to education.
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Today is Juneteenth, a time we should reckon with the devastating costs of suppressing information, including about slavery and its legacies. In Florida, leaders are reshaping classroom content through new policies that censor, distort, and discriminate.
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The US Supreme Court voted to uphold access to mifepristone, a safe and effective abortion drug. Ensuring access to mifepristone and other forms of reproductive health care is essential in protecting reproductive rights.
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A miscarriage of justice. The Oklahoma Supreme Court has affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the last two known survivors, Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Ford Fletcher, of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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The personal photos of Brazilian children are being used to create powerful AI tools without the children’s knowledge or consent. Children shouldn't have to live in fear that their photos might be stolen and weaponized against them.
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The Taliban publicly flogged 63 people, including 14 women, at a sports stadium in Afghanistan. This is a shocking and shameful violation of international law, and yet another example of why accountability is needed for Taliban rights violations.
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NEW: Israel's use of white phosphorus in south Lebanon is putting civilians at risk and contributing to displacement.
HRW verified the use of white phosphorus munitions by Israeli forces in at least 17 municipalities in south Lebanon since Oct. 2023.
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New report highlights failing humanitarian response to the crisis in northern Ethiopia, citing ineffective leadership and strategy. Given the findings, secretary-general of the United Nations António Guterres should establish an internal review panel of UN actions in Ethiopia.
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In NY, people with felony convictions are denied the right to vote during incarceration. No one should have their right to vote taken away due to a felony conviction. This is not hypothetical: felony disenfranchisement is real and disproportionately harms Black and Brown voters.
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Former US president Donald Trump’s conviction has raised questions over his voting rights. In Florida, where Trump has established residency, over 1.1 million people are banned from voting due to felony convictions.
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Nowhere in Gaza is safe. The International Court of Justice's order underlines the gravity of the situation in Gaza, where civilians are facing famine. Yet the Israeli government continues to flout the World Court’s binding orders by obstructing the entry of lifesaving aid and services.
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Today, as the EU marks its ninth Day Against Impunity, EU member countries face a critical test when it comes to their support for victims’ equal access to justice.
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Starting today, on International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, Human Rights Watch's LGBT program is celebrating 20 years.
To commemorate, we're publishing a series of essays focusing on different LGBT issues around the world.
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A major achievement in Switzerland -- a Swiss court has convicted the former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko for crimes against humanity. This victory is monumental for Gambian victims of atrocity crimes during the rule of Yahya Jammeh.
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NEW: Israeli forces have carried out at least eight strikes on aid workers’ convoys and premises in Gaza since October 2023, even though aid groups had provided their coordinates to the Israeli authorities to ensure their protection.
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NEW: 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. Governments, the African Union, and the United Nations need to act now to protect civilians.
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Research into eight deaths in four incidents between July 2022 and October 2023 concluded that Israeli forces wrongfully fatally shot or deliberately executed Palestinians who posed no apparent security threat.
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Kenyan authorities have not responded adequately to flash floods resulting from heavy rains. The floods have left at least 170 people dead, displaced more than 200,000, and exacerbated socioeconomic vulnerabilities.
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The German government is falling short in protecting Muslims and people perceived to be Muslims from racism. Without a clear understanding of anti-Muslim hate and discrimination in Germany, a response by the German authorities will be ineffective.
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The Burkina Faso military summarily executed at least 223 civilians, including at least 56 children, in two villages on February 25, 2024. These mass killings may amount to crimes against humanity.
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A step forward for corporate accountability. On the 11th anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster, the EU Parliament has approved a law requiring large companies to prevent and remedy human rights and environmental abuses in their global supply chains.
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NEW: Settlers and soldiers have displaced entire Palestinian communities in the West Bank, with the apparent backing of Israeli authorities. Abuses, including assault, torture, and sexual violence, against Palestinians in the West Bank are soaring.
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With this decision, Germany joins a growing list of countries that are abolishing pathologizing requirements for gender recognition.
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👏 In a landmark vote, Germany’s parliament passed a law that allows transgender and non-binary people to modify their legal documents to reflect their gender identity through a simple administrative procedure.
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Arizona’s decision to reinstate a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban is a harmful violation of the rights to privacy, to family, and to health.
Pregnant people should have the ability to control their bodies, lives, and futures.
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NEW: An Israeli airstrike on a six-story apartment building sheltering hundreds of people in central Gaza on October 31, 2023, is an apparent war crime. The attack is among the deadliest single incidents for civilians in Gaza following the events of October 7.
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30 years after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Human Rights Watch is digitizing and making available some of its archives from the time. The documents painfully illustrate world leaders' refusal to acknowledge the slaughter of more than half a million people and act to end it.
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Last week, the Taliban announced it is resuming publicly stoning women to death. The Taliban have reached this point because there is no one to hold them accountable for abuses. "Through the bodies of Afghan women, the Taliban demand and command moral and societal orders," says Sahar Fetrat.
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The Kremlin has stolen one year of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich’s life. He remains in prison. The arrest of Gershkovich is yet another example of the Russian government’s all-out assault on speech and media freedoms following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Can possessing a book in Hong Kong critical of the Chinese government result in prison time? Yes, thanks to Hong Kong's draconian new security law.
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Scores killed waiting for food in Gaza. Israel is bound as occupier to ensure humanitarian needs met & restore order, but is using starvation as a weapon of war—a war crime—and is responsible for creating catastrophic conditions that led to the killings.
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A Russian court has sentenced one of the country’s top human rights leaders, Oleg Orlov, to 2 years and 6 months in prison, on charges of “discrediting” Russia’s armed forces. The case against Orlov is a Kafkaesque farce.
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The Israeli government has failed to comply with at least one measure in the legally binding order from the ICJ in South Africa’s genocide case. The Israeli government has ignored the court’s ruling, and in some ways even intensified its repression.
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The detention of human rights defender Rocío San Miguel in Venezuela is deeply concerning. The international community should call for her release, and the Venezuelan government should respect her right to legal defense.
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The Russian assault on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in 2022 left thousands of civilians dead and injured, including many in apparently unlawful attacks, new findings show.
New research from HRW, Truth Hounds, and SITU Research: www.hrw.org/news/2024/02...
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A landmark decision — the ICJ’s speedy ruling issued today is recognition of the dire situation in Gaza, where civilians face starvation and are being killed daily at levels unprecedented in the recent history of Israel and Palestine.
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Over 400 days since the Taliban’s ban on women’s university education in Afghanistan Over 800 days since the Taliban’s ban on girls' secondary education in Afghanistan On International Day of Education, we remind governments everywhere that access to education is a human right.
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Today would have been the 51st anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. Access to abortion is a human right — and it's critical to guaranteeing a wide range of other rights.
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At least three transgender people were killed in Mexico the first two weeks of 2024, an outrageous attack on the embattled LGBT community there. Authorities should urgently conduct independent investigations and bring those responsible to justice.
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BREAKING: Human Rights Watch launches World Report 2024 - rights trends in 100+ countries around the globe. www.hrw.org/world-report...
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NEW: Israel held thousands of workers from Gaza in incommunicado detention for several weeks following the October 7 attacks. "We stayed blindfolded and cuffed [with zip ties on our hands and feet] for 10 days," one man said.
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Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in the wake of the Israel-Palestine hostilities. This censorship is furthering the erasure of Palestinians’ suffering.
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Today is International Migrants Day. All people on the move should be treated with dignity and respect for their basic human rights — regardless of the reason for their movement.
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India’s alleged involvement in assassination plots in the US and Canada suggests a new and notorious leap in extrajudicial killings. Indian authorities should conduct thorough and impartial investigations into these allegations.
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