Category: Human Rights

The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on September 21 detained Mark Mabasa, the 40-year old son of slain Philippine journalist Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa, who was shot to death in Metro Manila in October 2022. Mark Mabasa had received death threats in the Philippines following the murder of his father and had sought asylum in the […]

(Washington, DC) – United States forces intercepted and destroyed eight Ecuadorian fishing vessels between August 28 and September 16, 2026, detaining over 140 of 160 crew members and abusing some, Human Rights Watch said today. The US and Ecuadorian governments should disclose the legal basis for these operations and promptly investigate the abuses. US military forces have alleged […]

“When we left Sudan, I was worried that my education would stop,” said Jamila Mostafa, 19, one of the estimated 13.1 million refugee children of school age worldwide in 2025. Yet nearly half – 5.8 million – remain out of school as funding cuts threaten to roll back years of progress in educating children and […]

(Washington, DC) – US immigration authorities have detained at least eight Nicaraguan exiles whom the Ortega-Murillo government has stripped of their nationality, including some with pending asylum claims, Human Rights Watch said today.  Seven of the people detained were among 222 political prisoners whom the Nicaraguan government expelled to the United States, declared “traitors,” and […]

What you need to know The new declaration will be submitted for formal adoption at the General Assembly Adopted in South Africa in 2001, the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action is a blueprint for stamping out racism, discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance From a rise in racist speech, to calls for reparations for colonialism and […]

Zaatari refugee camp hosts more than 80,000 Syrians and well over half are children.  According to the agency, unless investment comes soon, its water and sanitation services could stop in a matter of months. UNICEF regional spokesperson Louise Wateridge pointed out that many children in Zaatari had been born in the camp. ‘A lifeline’ “For […]

What you need to know Ms. Pike was denied clemency and, one hour before her execution, a court halted it then lifted the stay She was twice injected with lethal drugs and survived Calls are growing for authorities to commute Ms. Pike’s death sentence “The prolonged suffering – physical and mental – arising from multiple […]

North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son-gyong, in his September 28 address to the United Nations General Assembly, asserted that the country’s status as a permanent nuclear state is “uncompromisingly and permanently fixed, both physically and legally.” This was an unmistakable reference to a March constitutional amendment that codified the centrality of North Korea’s nuclear doctrine. Meanwhile, […]

In November 2013, I went to Bangui and met Michel Djotodia, then the Central African Republic’s self-proclaimed interim president. He had taken over the country as the head of a rebel coalition called the Seleka. He received me in a run-down military camp on a hill overlooking the capital, in a darkened office watched over by security cameras […]