Category: Human Rights

In 2022, the UN verified 27,180 instances of grave violations targeting children – use in conflict, killing and maiming, rape and sexual violence, abduction, attacks on schools, and denial of humanitarian assistance, said Virgina Gamba, Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict. Among these violations, over 2,300 children suffered from multiple […]

When I met “Amina” two years ago, she told me her family’s journey sounded like the perfect Canadian story: escaping war-torn Afghanistan with her parents and three siblings, and ultimately finding refuge in Canada. “This is our home,” she told me. “But there is more to the story.” Upon arrival in Toronto, Canadian Border agents […]

(New York) – United Nations member countries should deny Russia and China seats on the UN Human Rights Council in voting at the UN General Assembly on October 10, 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities in both countries have been responsible for numerous crimes against humanity as well as other grave human rights violations, […]

Even before conflict erupted in Sudan in April, malnutrition rates among children under 5 years were on the rise. The EU responds as poor access to nutrition, health, water, hygiene, and food threaten the health of the country’s children. Before the start of the conflict, some 3 million children under 5 suffered from acute malnutrition, […]

(Marrakesh) – Discussions at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Annual Meetings that open in Marrakesh, Morocco, on October 9, 2023, should prioritize systemic reforms to align policies with human rights, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing a video to illustrate the concerns. The changes are needed because current policies are compounding […]

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is holding its 140th annual session from October 15 to 17 in Mumbai, India, where the government is expected to announce its bid to host the 2036 Summer Olympic Games in the western state of Gujarat. India has never hosted the Olympics and the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]

(Berlin, October 5, 2023) – Governments involved in facilitating talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia should secure concrete commitments from Azerbaijan’s president on respecting, protecting, and implementing the right to return of ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, Human Rights Watch said today. More than 100,000 ethnic Armenians, nearly the entire current population of the area, have fled […]

(Geneva) – The European Union and its members have backtracked on their support for continued international scrutiny of the human rights situation in Ethiopia at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Human Rights Watch said today. Countries had until October 4, 2023, to propose a resolution at the current session of the council, […]

It reveals the deadly toll of Russia’s full-scale invasion on Ukrainian civilians, with almost six people killed and 20 wounded on average every single day between February and July of this year. “In just six months covered by this report more than one thousand civilians died and nearly four thousand were injured,” said Danielle Bell, […]

After a four-and-a-half-year national investigation involving over 9,000 accounts and 32 public hearings, an Australian commission issued a comprehensive and incriminating 4,872-page report on abuses against people with disabilities. Australia’s Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability found thatmore than half of Australians with disabilities ages 18 to 64 have […]