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.

Armenia

in Conflict with Armenia, Azerbaijan used Cluster Munitions in Nagorno-Karabakh

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Stop Use of Banned Weapons; Secure and Destroy Stocks

Jabhat al-Nusra

Russia and Syria are committing War Crimes, Targeting Civilian Infrastructure

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Unlawful Attacks on Hospitals, Schools, Markets Forced Idlib Population Out

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s Systematic Repression of Palestinians Continues during Pandemic: UN

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Item 7, General Debate – UN Human Rights Council 45 Israeli authorities have continued to systematically repress and discriminate against Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Between March and August, Israeli authorities demolished 389 Palestinian homes and other structures in the West Bank, the majority for lacking building permits that Israeli authorities make virtually impossible […]

censorship

Saudi Arabia: ‘Image Laundering’ Conceals Abuses

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(Human Rights Watch) – (Beirut) – The Saudi government has spent billions of dollars hosting major entertainment, cultural, and sporting events as a deliberate strategy to deflect from the country’s image as a pervasive human rights violator, Human Rights Watch said today. On October 2, 2020, Human Rights Watch launched a global campaign to counter […]

Israel/ Palestine

U Toronto Dumping of Legal Scholar critical of Israel has Chilling effect on Research, Academic Freedom

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By Farida Deif | – ( Human Rights Watch ) – The University of Toronto’s law school allegedly rescinded a job offer for director of the law school’s International Human Rights Program in response to external pressure about the candidate’s scholarship and work on Israeli government violations of international law. If true, not only does […]

Qatar

Qatar: Significant Reforms for Gulf Labor give Workers new Freedoms

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( Human Rights Watch ) – (Beirut) – The success of the significant labor reform measures that Qatar introduced on September 8, 2020, will depend on how well the government enforces and monitors them, Human Rights Watch said today. The reforms will allow migrant workers to change jobs without employer permission and set a higher […]

Displaced and Refugees

Yemen: Aid Obstruction Puts Millions of Children and Adults at Risk

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(Human Rights Watch) – The Houthi armed group and other authorities are severely restricting the delivery of desperately needed aid in Yemen, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The situation is exacerbating the country’s dire humanitarian situation and weakening its response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Human Rights Watch: “Aid Restriction in Yemen […]

Human Rights

Why is Saudi Arabia Holding its Prominent Political Prisoners Incommunicado?

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Safety Concerns for Activists, Ex-Crown Prince, Clerichu

Children

Saudi Arabia must stop Executing Children: Human Rights Watch

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By Bill Van Esveld | – ( Human Rights Watch) – On August 26, the Saudi Human Rights Commission announced the judiciary would review three death sentences in accordance with a recent decree to halt capital punishment for child offenders. Ali al-Nimr, Dawoud al-Marhoun, and Abdullah al-Zaher were sentenced to death for allegedly committing crimes […]