Category: Human Rights

(New York) – The Taliban have deepened their repression since taking over Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, by intensifying restrictions on the rights of women and girls, detaining journalists, and silencing all dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. Afghanistan now faces one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, exacerbated by donor governments’ aid cuts and […]

Ramallah: On 28 July 2025 Attack — Church leaders and human rights advocates have condemned a violent attack by extremist Israeli settlers on the Palestinian town of Taybeh, the last all-Christian community in the West Bank. The pre-dawn assault on 28 July saw multiple vehicles torched and threatening graffiti scrawled on residential walls. Eyewitnesses reported […]

Uganda has a progressive refugee policy which enables refugees to work and access public services. This coupled with its geographic proximity to crises has made it the continent’s largest refugee-hosting country. “Emergency funding runs out in September. More children will die of malnutrition, more girls will fall victim to sexual violence, and families will be […]

Countries will resume negotiations in Geneva on August 5, 2025, on a global plastics treaty. Previous talks have stalled amid deep divisions over key issues. To make the treaty meaningful, countries need to tackle plastic pollution at its source by limiting production, including by phasing out fossil fuels and subsidies. Each year, more than 400 million tonnes of plastics […]

Chad is currently grappling with one of the most severe humanitarian emergencies in Africa, hosting over 1.8 million displaced individuals, including 1.2 million Sudanese refugees who have fled escalating violence in Sudan. This influx has placed immense strain on Chad’s already fragile infrastructure and limited resources. With 42% of its population living below the poverty […]

New York, 2 August 2025 — The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has issued a stark warning about the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza, reporting that children are dying at an unprecedented rate due to famine and conflict-related conditions. The warning comes amid Israel’s continued military operations, which officials say will persist until all hostages […]

Luanda, Angola — August 3, 2025Amnesty International has called on Angolan authorities to launch an independent and impartial investigation into the deaths of 22 individuals during a national taxi drivers’ strike that began on July 29, 2025. The organization condemned what it described as the excessive and lethal use of force by state security agents […]

The United Kingdom’s announcement on July 22 that it would use AI face-scanning technology to evaluate whether an asylum seeker is under age 18 threatens to harm children seeking refuge. The asylum minister, Angela Eagle, said that the decision was because this experimental technology is likely to be the cheapest option. Experimenting with unproven technology to […]

(Beirut) – Iranian authorities used a “guillotine machine” to amputate fingers of three detained men in the late hours of July 30, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The three men, Hadi Rostami, 38, Mehdi Sharifian, 42, and Mehdi Shahivand, 29, had been convicted of theft after grossly unfair trials.  An informed source told Human Rights Watch […]

Between the beginning of April and the end of June, armed violence in Haiti has killed 1,520 people and injured 609 more, according to a new report on human rights in Haiti which was released on Friday.   These numbers are similar to those from the first quarter of 2025 when 1,617 people were killed […]