Category: Human Rights

Families of some 40 Australian women and children held in dire conditions in camps in northeast Syria for years have resorted to preparing legal action with the child rights group Save the Children to try and secure their repatriation. The Australian government shouldn’t have let it come to this. Many of the women and children […]

It’s been almost a decade since the United Nations child rights committee last examined Jordan’s record on children’s rights. That changes today, and the committee’s experts have a lot to discuss. Thousands of children in Jordan who are born to Jordanian mothers and non-Jordanian fathers spend their entire lives treated as foreign nationals by the […]

The trial of a private United States citizen accused of torture as part of an alleged unlawful firearms manufacturing scheme in Iraq opened in the state of Pennsylvania yesterday. It is only the second case ever brought under a US federal law making torture a criminal offense. Prosecutors allege that as part of the scheme, […]

(Istanbul, May 10, 2023) – Voters in Turkey will head to the polls in a high-stakes election on May 14, 2023, amid concern that the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will exert considerable control over the digital ecosystem in an effort to undermine the outcome of the election, ARTICLE 19 and Human Rights Watch […]

(São Paulo) – Peru’s security forces used disproportionate and indiscriminate force in the city of Juliaca on January 9, 2023, the single deadliest day of repression of recent protests, Human Rights Watch said in a multimedia report released today. Eighteen protesters and bystanders were killed. The report, “They, the Policemen, Killed My Brother,” reconstructs the […]

On April 24, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s electoral commission finalized a nationwide process to update voter lists ahead of general elections slated for December 2023. But as citizens headed to voter registration centers, some were met with violence and discrimination. In Goma, Bukavu, Nyagenzi, and Uvira in eastern Congo, groups of youths threatened, beat, […]

Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, which constitutes the Presidential Elections Tribunal, yesterday began proceedings to hear the challenges brought against the declaration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling political party, the All Progressives Congress, as the winner of February’s presidential elections. The elections were marred with irregularities, including violence at the polls and logistical and […]

Iraqi authorities have failed to compensate thousands of Yazidis and others from the Sinjar province for property damage in the battle against ISIS. Without compensation, many people lack the financial means to rebuild their homes and businesses, so returning home is not an option. Many are stuck in displaced people’s camps. The Iraqi government should […]

In today’s rapidly changing world, access to free education is essential for sustainable development and for children to thrive. Although current international treaties only prioritize a right to free education at the primary level, more and more countries are recognizing that this is insufficient, and are enacting national laws to expand children’s right to free […]

(Sydney) – The Myanmar military used a “thermobaric” munition for an attack on an opposition building in Sagaing Region on April 11, 2023, that killed more than 160 people, including children, Human Rights Watch said today. The airstrike using an “enhanced-blast” type munition on the village of Pa Zi Gyi in upper Myanmar caused indiscriminate […]