Author: Human Rights Watch

(Beirut) – Israeli forces continue to kill and wound civilians and deny sufficient food, aid, and water to Palestinians in Gaza one year after a ceasefire agreement took effect on October 10, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. Israel’s acts of genocide and crimes against humanity, including forced displacement and extermination, have persisted throughout the ceasefire. Other […]

(New York) – The Trump administration’s decision to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) is an unprecedented assault on global justice and the rule of law, Human Rights Watch said today. On October 9, 2026, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the imposition of sanctions on the ICC.  “The Trump administration has made clear its aim to destroy […]

A lawyer in Niger faces prosecution over comments about the army on social media while a prominent journalist and critic of the country’s military junta is being held in secret, with authorities refusing to identify his alleged offense. These cases together highlight a broadening crackdown in Niger, where the space for free expression is shrinking […]

A Russian airstrike damaged a hospital in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on October 6, according to reports from local officials and media outlets. The attack injured several people, including at least two hospital workers, and also damaged residential and administrative buildings and an art school in the city center.   The strike is the latest in […]

Louisiana feminist activists came together on October 2 at the annual Black Birth Matters conference to demand that policy makers consider how toxic air pollution and other environmental damage negatively impact reproductive health. As part of a day-long examination of human rights in Louisiana, Kaitlyn Joshua, an environmental and reproductive rights expert, Shamell Lavigne from […]

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on Uganda to significantly expand government support for early childhood education and provide free, state-run pre-primary education to all children. In its latest review of Uganda’s record on children’s rights, issued October 1, the Committee expressed concern about high numbers of children out […]

Blogger Sirojiddin Adilov’s October 5 conviction on dubious extortion and fraud charges raises serious questions about fair trial standards in Uzbekistan, as well as the government’s commitment to upholding freedom of expression. A criminal court sentenced Adilov—who ran “Sirojiddin Media,” a YouTube channel with over 915,000 subscribers—to four years in a prison colony for committing […]

The United States has sent more than 500 people whom it cannot deport to their own countries, because of the danger they would face, there to various countries in Africa where they have no connections, without giving them a meaningful chance to contest their removals to these countries. Some of the people have been detained […]

A record number of countries at the United Nations Human Rights Council this week voted to support a resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan. For the first time, the Gambia, Mauritius, and Malawi joined South Africa and countries from other regions voting in favor of the resolution. The fact-finding […]

A record number of countries at the United Nations Human Rights Council this week voted to support a resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan. For the first time, the Gambia, Mauritius, and Malawi joined South Africa and countries from other regions voting in favor of the resolution. The fact-finding […]