Central African Republic: Urge End to Killings
The International Contact Group for the Central African Republic, due to meet on November 11, 2014, should publicly call for an end to the sectarian violence, Human Rights Watch said. The group, meeting for the first time in Bangui, the capital of the...
Bangladesh: Halt Execution of War Crimes Accused
The death sentence against Muhammed Kamaruzzman, a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party convicted of war crimes during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence, should immediately be stayed. Kamaruzzman should be granted a right to appeal against the...
One Year On, a Child Survivor of Haiyan Says, "Sometimes We Do Not Have Money or Food"
Concerned about latest SMM reports of activities undermining Minsk commitments, OSCE Chair calls on all sides to preserve and consolidate ceasefire
With reference to the latest reporting of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission regarding shelling and its victims in Donetsk and the appearance of convoys of heavy weapons and tanks in territory controlled by illegally armed groups, Swiss Foreign...
Malaysia: Court Victory for Transgender Rights
Transgender people face discrimination and abuse from state officials and agents, including from...
Gambia: UN experts prevented from completing probe into torture, killings
A marching band in Farafenni, a market town in The Gambia, just south of the border with...
Statement on the protection of children during the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine
The senseless killing of two children and injury of four others in the shelling of a school sports field in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Wednesday is a shocking reminder of the price being paid by children and families in the ongoing violence in Eastern...
Darfur: UN envoy on sexual violence urges immediate access for probe into alleged mass rapes
Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Bangura.
Mexico: Delays, Cover-Up Mar Atrocities Response
The Mexican government delayed investigations into the enforced disappearances of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero State, and the killing of 22 people in Tlatlaya, Mexico State, Human Rights Watch said. In the Tlatlaya case, state prosecutors sought to...
Iran: Free Woman in Sports Protest Case
Iran’s judiciary should quash the conviction of Ghoncheh Ghavami for “propaganda against the state” and immediately release her since the charge is on its face a punishment for peaceful speech and protest, Human Rights Watch said. Ghavami, a dual...
