Category: Human Rights

(Jerusalem) – The Israeli government’s decision to bar delivery of fuel to Gaza will trigger a complete communications blackout imminently if not urgently addressed, further endangering the lives of Gaza’s population, Human Rights Watch said today. Israel should allow desperately needed fuel into Gaza and refrain from deliberately shutting down or destroying telecommunications systems that […]

Today, the United Kingdom’s highest court found that Rwanda is not a safe third country for the government to send asylum seekers. This is a huge victory that will protect the rights of countless people who have come to the UK seeking safety. In a unanimous judgment, the Supreme Court agreed with the Court of […]

On November 17, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Berlin for talks with Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups are likely to be high on the agenda. While Germany and Turkey take different views of the situation in Israel and Palestine, Scholz and […]

Read a text description of this video Police emergency 378. Do you have an emergency? Darna Savariu, Crisis Counselor, The Gerstein Crisis Centre The police is somebody with power, you know with the ability to apprehend somebody and take somebody to the hospital, even against their will. Elaine Amsterdam, Crisis Service Coordinator, The Gerstein Crisis […]

Catherine Russell visited Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the south of the besieged enclave on Wednesday. “Today I visited the Gaza Strip to meet with children, their families and UNICEF staff. What I saw and heard was devastating. They have endured repeated bombardment, loss and displacement. Inside the Strip, there is nowhere safe for Gaza’s one million children to turn.  The parties to […]

As negotiations on the EU’s proposed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive gather steam, EU lawmakers should firmly embed Indigenous peoples’ rights in the text of the legislation. The directive seeks to introduce legal obligations for companies to conduct risk-based human rights and environmental due diligence in their own operations, subsidiaries, and value chains. The legislation […]

(Geneva) – The Uzbekistan government should urgently act on recommendations made on November 8, 2023, during its fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of its human rights record at the UN Human Rights Council, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should take particular action to uphold the rights of human rights defenders, journalists and bloggers, […]

She travelled across the US between 31 October and 14 November, from Detroit in Michigan to the Louisiana coast, also visiting Los Angeles, Atlanta and Washington DC. Ashwini K.P., UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, xenophobia and related intolerance, said following her 14-day fact finding mission that mainstream America was now more aware […]

(Washington, D.C.) – The US government should direct environmental justice funds from President Biden’s climate law to protect pregnant people and address reproductive justice in communities most at risk, a group of organizations said today. The group of mostly maternal health rights organizations called for the US to phase out fossil fuel operations in the […]

Shortly after he became Philippine president in 2016, Rodrigo Duterte made an astonishing vow: “I will have to destroy her in public.” The former president was referring to Leila de Lima, then a sitting senator who, days earlier, opened a Senate investigation into the so-called “war on drugs.” On Monday, de Lima finally stepped out […]