Azerbaijan: Rights Defender Convicted
Azerbaijan’s conviction on April 16, 2015, of a leading human rights activist and government critic, Rasul Jafarov, reflects the government’s relentless crackdown against independent voices, Human Rights Watch said on 16 April. The authorities should...
Thailand: Drop Charges Against Phuket Journalists
Thai authorities should drop criminal proceedings against two journalists for reporting on trafficking of ethnic Rohingya “boat people,” Human Rights Watch said on 16 April. Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian, the editor and correspondent of the...
MEPs urge end to Roma discrimination and recognition of Roma Genocide Day
Parliament called for more efforts to end discrimination, hate crime and hate speech against Roma people and for 2 August to be recognised as Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, to commemorate the Roma genocide in World War II, in a resolution passed on...
Iraq: ISIS Escapees Describe Systematic Rape
The Khanke IDP camp outside of Dohuk is home to more than 18,000 Yezidis and other Iraqi families who...
EU: Intolerable Inaction Costs Lives at Sea
Reports of 400 lives lost in the Mediterranean between April 11-13, 2015, should force the European Union to implement a vast search-and-rescue operation, Human Rights Watch said on April 15. Eleven bodies have been recovered so far from one confirmed...
Saudi Coalition/US: Curb Civilian Harm in Yemen
Saudi Arabia, other coalition members, and the United States should ensure that coalition forces take necessary steps to minimize harm to civilians during military operations in Yemen, Human Rights Watch said on 13 April, releasing letters to King...
Israel: Settlement Agriculture Harms Palestinian Children
Israeli settlement farms in the West Bank are using Palestinian child labor to grow, harvest, and pack agricultural produce, much of it for export, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on 13 April, 2015. The farms pay the children low wages...
Vanuatu: UN urges support for Government-led relief efforts one month after Cyclone Pam
Empty market stalls that catered to tourists near Star Wharf in Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila.
UN official 'shocked' by killing of aid workers in Afghanistan
Aid distribution for displaced persons in Khost province, Afghanistan.
UN condemns escalation of hostilities in western Libya, calls for immediate ceasefire
An estimated 400,000 people are displaced across Libya, including this man at a site near the...
