Category: Human Rights

The devastating earthquake in Gaziantep left thousands of people in Türkiye and Syria under the rubble. The first hours were vital to rescue these people, some of them children. Silence was also key in these operations. More than 1,600 European rescuers mobilised through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism worked tirelessly to pull survivors from the […]

Thousands of Syrian refugee students in Lebanon are being cut off from classes, all, according to officials, in the name of “equality.” Amid Lebanon’s financial crisis, teachers’ strikes against the massive devaluation of their salaries led to the suspension on January 9 of “morning shift” classes, attended mainly by Lebanese students. On January 10, the […]

Australian lawmakers are engaged in fierce debate over changes to the “Safeguard Mechanism,” which would require top polluting facilities to reduce emissions by 4.9 percent each year to 2030, or face penalties. The policy covers 215 sites that emit more than 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year – 28 percent of Australia’s emissions. However, the mechanism […]

(New York) – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has wrongly annulled FIFA’s lifetime ban and other sanctions on Yves Jean-Bart, the former Haiti Football Federation (FHF) president, Human Rights Watch and the Army of Survivors said today. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) first suspended Jean-Bart and a number of his vice […]

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has vowed to “speedily” sign into law a bill that would severely restrict civic space, the operations of nongovernmental organizations, and the right to freedom of association in the country. The new law, the Private Voluntary Organisation Amendment Bill, which the parliament and senate have already passed, was necessary, Mnangagwa claimed, […]

When the 2022 Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis received less than half the US$881 million needed for the year, the United Nations warned that refugees risked serious shortages in food and other essentials. Now the World Food Programme (WFP) has announced it is going to cut the monthly food ration for Rohingya […]

Matilda Bogner, Head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), told journalists in Geneva that the civilian death toll in the southern city of Mariupol – besieged and bombarded by Russian missiles – had been particularly high.  “My colleagues interviewed a former prisoner of war, and he was from Mariupol and he […]

Hardships have accumulated for residents of Nagorno-Karabakh, the ethnic Armenian breakaway enclave in Azerbaijan, since the Lachin corridor, the lifeline road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia to the outside world, was closed to regular traffic on December 12, 2022. Armine, 40, who lives in Nagorno-Karabakh with her family, told Human Rights Watch she is the sole […]

Destruction after the earthquake in Northwest Syria © PIN 2023 On 6 February, a powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.8 – one of the strongest earthquakes in the region in more than 100 years – struck the southeastern Anatolia Region of Türkiye, affecting 10 provinces in Türkiye and 6 governorates in Syria. Another powerful 7.5 quake […]

By Leila Saad, Research Assistant  Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is attempting to “sportswash” the country’s egregious record of human rights violations through a new global golf tournament that begins later this month. The Saudi-funded LIV Golf’s 2023 tournament will kick off on February 24 in Mexico and then move to Arizona, Florida, Australia, Singapore, […]