Category: Human Rights

 In an agreement made public yesterday, New York City will pay up to $4-6 million to partially settle a legal case brought by hundreds of people trapped, beaten, and wrongfully arrested by the New York Police Department (NYPD) in the summer of 2020. A Human Rights Watch report and video produced with Situ Research documents the […]

Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi and French President Emmanuel Macron should discuss pressing human rights concerns during Macron’s visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo on March 4, 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. Their agenda should include ensuring that elections slated for December are free, fair, and transparent, protecting civilians in conflict-affected areas, and holding […]

Iran’s reformist Etemad news agency reported on March 1 that over the past three months, hundreds of schoolgirls have been poisoned in at least 58 schools in 10 provinces across the country. In the past two days, at least three schools in Tehran described students being poisoned by toxic gas emissions, Shargh Daily paper reported. […]

The latest report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, is comprehensive and devastating. The special rapporteur catalogues widespread, serious abuses, noting that the Taliban authorities have “normalized” the systematic violation of the rights of women and girls. He also suggests that their “discriminatory denial of women and girls’ fundamental human rights may […]

Conflict in Darfur has been going on for 20 years. The resulting humanitarian crisis has killed more than 300,000 people and displaced over 2 million. Ethnic tensions in Darfur are deeply rooted in competition over resources, land and power, and political, economic, and social marginalisation. A surge in violence after 2020 resulted in the killing […]

Following years of pressure, United States-based drug manufacturer Eli Lilly and Company announced today that it would lower the prices for its most commonly prescribed insulin products by 70 percent and automatically cap out-of-pocket costs for their insulin products at US$35 at participating retail pharmacies. While a positive step forward, today’s announcement does not address […]

(Berlin, March 2, 2023) – Georgian authorities are denying former President Mikheil Saakashvili adequate medical care, putting him at grave risk of death, permanent disability, or other irreversible damage to his health, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities have yet to respond to concerns the organizations outlined in a joint letter […]

A devastating new investigation by the New York Times found migrant children across the United States working in dangerous jobs in violation of US child labor laws. There is more to this story. A group of often-overlooked US child workers – those working in agriculture – regularly risk their health and lives in dangerous jobs. […]

Adding her voice to the High Commissioner’s call for action, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed warned in a video message that the right to development has “yet to be realized by billions of people” who were “hurting (while) the planet is burning. The world cannot wait.” Marking the 35th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the […]

The new executive director at the European Union’s border agency, Frontex, should address the agency’s grave failings and ensure it puts respect for human rights front and center. Human Rights Watch sent a letter to new Executive Director Hans Leijtens on his first day in office, urging him to reform Frontex and ensure its operations […]