Category: Human Rights

Volker Türk highlighted the dichotomy at the border crossing, describing it as a “lifeline” for the 2.3 million residents of Gaza over the past month, although “unjustly, outrageously thin.” But it is also “the gates to a living nightmare”, he continued, as people in Gaza “have been suffocating, under persistent bombardment, mourning their families, struggling […]

(Jerusalem) – The Israeli military’s strike on a marked ambulance just outside of Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital on November 3, 2023, was apparently unlawful and should be investigated as a possible war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. Video footage and photographs taken shortly after the strike and verified by Human Rights Watch show a […]

The world recently marked the United Nations’ first International Day of Care and Support, recognizing  the work that goes into the upkeep of millions of households and families globally. This work includes supporting and caring for children, pregnant and postpartum people, older persons, and persons with disabilities. The vast majority of this work – 76.2% […]

Current ESG frameworks measure how environmental and social risks may harm shareholders, rather than how business may harm the world. We show how and why this approach is misguided. Informed by legitimate scholarly and journalistic critiques of ESG investing, the report offers a dramatically different approach that can revive the original goals of ESG investing—namely, […]

(New York) – World Health Organization (WHO) member states should push for clear commitments to human rights protections in the text of a draft “pandemic treaty” being negotiated on November 6-10, four rights organizations said today. The current draft fails to enshrine core human rights standards protected under international law, most notably the right to […]

Initial steps taken by civil and forensic police to investigate 28 killings during a July 2023 police operation in São Paulo state have been inadequate, and did not comply with international standards. Brazil has long had a serious problem with excessive use of force by police. “Revenge operations” after a police officer is killed pose […]

(Washington, DC) – Peru’s Congress should reject an effort to remove members of the National Board of Justice and uphold judicial independence, the rule of law, and the protection of human rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The move against the board is part of a pattern of congressional actions to coopt independent democratic institutions. […]

The murder was brazen and swift: two men entered the home of Juan Jumalon in the town of Calamba in the southern Philippines while the radio journalist was broadcasting live on his on Sunday morning show on 94.7 Gold FM. News reports said that one of the gunmen held a member of Jumalon’s household staff […]

(Jerusalem) – Allies of Israel and backers of Palestinian armed groups should suspend the transfer of arms to the warring parties in Israel and Gaza given the real risk that they will be used to commit grave abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. Providing weapons that knowingly and significantly would contribute to unlawful attacks can […]

(London) – The global terrorism financing and money laundering watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), should call on the Indian government to stop prosecuting, intimidating, and harassing human rights defenders, activists, and nonprofit organizations in the country on the pretext of countering terrorist financing, Amnesty International, Charity & Security Network, and Human Rights Watch […]