Russia: War's Supersized Repression
Click to expand Image Police officers detain a man holding a poster that reads "no war" during an unsanctioned protest on March,13,2022 at Manezhnaya Square in front of the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia....
View ArticleCentral Asia: Violent Response to Protests Fuels Rights Violations
Click to expand Image Riot police block demonstrators during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, January 5, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Vladimir Tretyakov (Berlin, January 12, 2023) – Authorities in...
View ArticleEU: Ukraine Response Shows Principled Approach Possible
Click to expand Image Ukrainian refugees at a Paris train station, Paris, France on April 30, 2022. © 2022 Pierrick Villette/Abaca/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images) (Brussels) – The European Union and...
View ArticleTurkey: Tightened Control in Election Run-Up
Click to expand Image Opposition members of parliament hold up placards protesting the Erdoğan government’s proposed law to criminalize disinformation and tighten control over social media as an...
View ArticleBelarus: Zone of Repression
Click to expand Image Protesters display broken paper prison bars representing the Belarusian population in prisons and the lack of freedom in Belarus, in Krakow, Poland on August 9, 2022. © 2022...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Issues Damning Verdict for UK
Click to expand Image Volunteers sort food into food parcels at the Rumney Forum community charity on November 8, 2022 in Cardiff, Wales. © 2022 Matthew Horwood/Getty Images (London) – The United...
View ArticleUkraine: Russian Invasion Causing Widespread Suffering for Civilians
Click to expand Image A family walks amid destroyed military vehicles in Bucha, near Kyiv, Ukraine, April 6, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Felipe Dana. (Kyiv, January 12, 2023) – Russia’s war in Ukraine has...
View ArticleOne Year On: Documenting Koblenz
Click to expand Image Visitors in the courtroom public gallery in Koblenz, Germany on June 16, 2021. Illustration © 2021 Moner Alkadri for Human Rights Watch (Berlin) – Judicial officials in Germany...
View ArticleA New Model for Global Leadership on Human Rights
Click to expand Image (London) – The litany of human rights crises that unfolded in 2022 – from Ukraine to China to Afghanistan – has left behind a sea of human suffering, but it has also opened new...
View ArticleBrazil: Ensure Justice for Attack on Democratic Institutions
Click to expand Image The word “democracy” on a pedestrian bridge in São Paulo, Brazil, October 26, 2022. © AP Photo/Matias Delacroix 2022 (São Paulo) – Brazilian authorities should thoroughly...
View ArticleAmericas: Address Poverty, Corruption, Insecurity
Click to expand Image The word “democracy” on a pedestrian bridge in São Paulo, Brazil, October 26, 2022. © AP Photo/Matias Delacroix 2022 (New York) – Governments in Latin America and the Caribbean...
View ArticleRussia: War's Supersized Repression
Click to expand Image Police officers detain a man holding a poster that reads "no war" during an unsanctioned protest on March,13,2022 at Manezhnaya Square in front of the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia....
View ArticleCentral Asia: Violent Response to Protests Fuels Rights Violations
Click to expand Image Riot police block demonstrators during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, January 5, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Vladimir Tretyakov (Berlin, January 12, 2023) – Authorities in...
View ArticleEU: Ukraine Response Shows Principled Approach Possible
Click to expand Image Ukrainian refugees at a Paris train station, Paris, France on April 30, 2022. © 2022 Pierrick Villette/Abaca/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images) (Brussels) – The European Union and...
View ArticleTurkey: Tightened Control in Election Run-Up
Click to expand Image Opposition members of parliament hold up placards protesting the Erdoğan government’s proposed law to criminalize disinformation and tighten control over social media as an...
View ArticleBelarus: Zone of Repression
Click to expand Image Protesters display broken paper prison bars representing the Belarusian population in prisons and the lack of freedom in Belarus, in Krakow, Poland on August 9, 2022. © 2022...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Issues Damning Verdict for UK
Click to expand Image Volunteers sort food into food parcels at the Rumney Forum community charity on November 8, 2022 in Cardiff, Wales. © 2022 Matthew Horwood/Getty Images (London) – The United...
View ArticleUkraine: Russian Invasion Causing Widespread Suffering for Civilians
Click to expand Image A family walks amid destroyed military vehicles in Bucha, near Kyiv, Ukraine, April 6, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Felipe Dana. (Kyiv, January 12, 2023) – Russia’s war in Ukraine has...
View ArticleOne Year On: Documenting Koblenz
Click to expand Image Visitors in the courtroom public gallery in Koblenz, Germany on June 16, 2021. Illustration © 2021 Moner Alkadri for Human Rights Watch (Berlin) – Judicial officials in Germany...
View ArticleSea Rescuers Still Waiting for Justice in Greece
Sarah Mardini and Sean Binder were thrown in jail on baseless charges for helping rescue migrants and asylum seekers in the Mediterranean Sea in August 2018. Four years and four months later, they and...
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