Author: Human Rights Watch

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 […]

(Washington, DC) – Since early 2026, Salvadoran courts have begun convicting people in mass trials of hundreds of defendants at a time, relying on weak evidence and giving them no real chance to defend themselves, Human Rights Watch said today.  For months, courts in El Salvador have held mass trials of people detained under the state […]

(Bangkok) – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim should press Myanmar’s junta leader, Min Aung Hlaing, to end human rights abuses during his visit to Kuala Lumpur on October 7, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today. The Malaysian government should also halt plans to forcibly return ethnic Rohingya and other people from Myanmar, where they face […]

The UN Human Rights Council on October 6 extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Russia for another year. Russia withdrew its amendment that attempted to delete renewal of the mandate. The extension is welcome news. The Russia mandate provides an essential independent voice to document the Russian government’s […]