Category: Human Rights

In recent weeks, Ugandan media has been awash once again with reports of armed men linked to the state security forces kidnapping people and taking them to unknown locations, where they have no access to lawyers or family. On November 28, three men in civilian clothes accosted Yahya Mwanje, a Muslim cleric, outside a Kampala […]

The tragic death of a Filipino migrant worker, Alex, his surname unknown, at a World Cup site in Qatar should have been treated humanely. But FIFA and Qatari authorities responded callously to media questions about his death, returning the spotlight to their disregard for the deaths of thousands of migrant workers in the years leading […]

Early in her political career, Sheikh Hasina was never afraid of a challenge. She led a campaign against martial law in the 1980s when she was detained several times, eventually leading to parliamentary elections of 1991 and a return to democracy. But that appears to have changed since she took office as prime minister of […]

(London) – President Andrzej Duda of Poland should veto a regressive and discriminatory bill that threatens sex education, including about sexual orientation and gender identity, Human Rights Watch said today. The proposed legislation is a revised version of a bill including similar provisions that Duda vetoed earlier this year, calling for unity at a time […]

(New York) – A Moscow court on December 9, 2022, sentenced a Russian opposition politician to eight and a half years in prison with an additional four-year ban on use of the internet, in continued efforts to dismantle and decapitate Russia’s peaceful political opposition and silence any criticism of the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine, Human Rights […]

President Donald Trump left office nearly two years ago, but you might not notice that if you were seeking asylum at the United States southwest border. Despite promises to reverse abusive Trump programs that eviscerated the asylum process, the administration of President Joe Biden has continued to use and even expanded many of the same […]

(Bangkok) – Human Rights Watch and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University marked World Human Rights Day today by announcing that they will be co-administering the Human Rights Press Awards which previously were administered by the Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong (FCCHK) for over a quarter century. […]

Last week marked one year since New York became the first city in the United States to open overdose prevention centers (OPCs), which have prevented  more than 600 fatal drug overdoses since opening. The two OPCs, run by OnPoint NYC, offer people who use drugs a safe environment to consume and be connected to voluntary […]