Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch is a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization made up of roughly 400 staff members around the globe. Its staff consists of human rights professionals including country experts, lawyers, journalists, and academics of diverse backgrounds and nationalities. Established in 1978, Human Rights Watch is known for its accurate fact-finding, impartial reporting, effective use of media, and targeted advocacy, often in partnership with local human rights groups.

Lebanon

Lebanon: Security Forces Use Excessive Force Against Protesters

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Riot Police Fired on Crowds with Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets

Kurds

Turkey’s ‘Safe Zone’ in Syria Would Be Anything But (HRW)

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Plan Increases Risks for Returned Refugees

Donald Trump

Turkish Military Operation in Syria puts Large Numbers of Civilians at Risk

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Key Concerns Include Unlawful Attacks, Treatment of Displaced People, Arbitrary Arrests

Displaced and Refugees

US Move Puts More Asylum Seekers at Risk: Expanded ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program Undermines Due Process

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( Human Rights Watch) – (Ciudad Juarez, Mexico) –The Trump administration has drastically expanded its “Remain in Mexico” program while undercutting the rights of asylum seekers at the United States southern border, Human Rights Watch said today. Under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) – known as the “Remain in Mexico” program – asylum seekers in […]

Egypt

As New Rallies Break out, Egypt must Respect the Right to Peaceful Protest: Human Rights Watch

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President al-Sisi Should Ensure Restraint by Security Forces

Arms Sales

Despite Brutal Yemen War, will Saudis stock up at London’s Arms Fair?

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Conduct in Yemen War Means UK Government Should Not Resume Arms Sales

censorship

India, Infringing Basic Freedoms, must Restore Kashmir’s Internet, Phones

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Shutdown Affects Essential Services, Harms Economy

Yemen

Civilian Casualties Mount in Indiscriminate Fighting in Yemen

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Separatist and Government Forces in Aden Showing Scant Concern for Civilians

Immigration

US Homeland Security could return Syrian Refugees in US to Violence, Arrest, Torture under al-Assad

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Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) – The US should renew its grant of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to almost 7,000 Syrians living in the United States, Human Rights Watch said today. People forced to return to Syria still face violence, arbitrary arrest and detention, and torture. Destroyed house from US-led coalition strike that killed 13 […]