Category: Human Rights

(Beirut) – Israeli road closures in the West Bank on July 27, 2026, badly delayed an ambulance transporting a pregnant Palestinian woman in critical condition, with dire consequences, Human Rights Watch said today. The woman’s fetus did not survive an emergency delivery, and her life was further endangered when soldiers forced the ambulance crew to […]

The recent addition of 43 Chinese companies, including aluminum producers, to a US government forced labor list underscores the need for car companies to disengage from suppliers linked to Uyghur forced labor. Under the 2021 Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, the US government maintains a list of Xinjiang-based companies linked to forced labor, referred to […]

“I am alarmed by the rise in executions and death sentences issued in Iran since March and that capital punishment continues to be used to instill fear among the population and suppress dissent,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said in a statement, urging Iranian authorities to urgently halt all executions and move towards […]

(Beirut) – Israeli road closures in the West Bank on July 27, 2026, badly delayed an ambulance transporting a pregnant Palestinian woman in critical condition, with dire consequences, Human Rights Watch said today. The woman’s fetus did not survive an emergency delivery, and her life was further endangered when soldiers forced the ambulance crew to […]

Palestine Action, the direct-action protest group, was granted permission on July 30 to appeal its terrorist designation at the United Kingdom Supreme Court. The government controversially issued this designation in 2025, and although the group successfully appealed the designation in the High Court, that ruling was reversed by the Court of Appeal in June.  Since […]

Azerbaijani authorities have imposed increasingly punitive detention conditions on Ali Karimli, chairman of the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP), raising serious concerns about inhuman or degrading treatment. Karimli, 61, has been held in the State Security Service detention facility since November 29, 2025. Authorities charged him under Article 278.1 of the Criminal Code with […]

A prominent Malian journalist was convicted under Mali’s cybercrime legislation for criticizing the use of that same law to silence another journalist. The verdict marks the latest escalation in the military junta’s widening assault on freedom of expression in the country. On August 3, the national cybercrime court in Bamako, Mali’s capital, sentenced Chahana Takiou, editor of the […]

A coalition of voting rights organizations renewed a motion for preliminary injunction on July 20 in Massachusetts to prevent the United States Postal Service (USPS) from implementing parts of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14399. The renewed motion is part of litigation challenging the order’s legality. The order purports to combat election fraud by directing […]

(Manila) – The Philippine government’s revised national guidelines on free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) threaten the rights of Indigenous communities, Human Rights Watch said today. Philippine authorities should align these guidelines with international human rights standards. On May 1, 2026, the Philippine National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), which issues rules and regulations related to […]