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Several leading foreign tech companies have withdrawn from Russia or suspended operations in the two weeks since Russia’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine, exacerbating the risk of isolation from the global internet for the country’s residents.

Russian aircraft dropped multiple unguided bombs simultaneously on March 3, 2022, that hit an intersection in a residential neighborhood of Chernihiv, a city in northeastern Ukraine, Human Rights Watch said on March 10, 2022.

The new US forced labor law should heighten scrutiny of company supply chains that are linked to forced labor in China, Human Rights Watch said in a submission to the federal Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF) on March 11, 2022. The law should also result in increased civil and criminal penalties for companies that import products linked to forced labor.

A displaced family in the Al-Hol camp in Syria.

The violence used by security forces across Belarus against peaceful protesters has been strongly criticized by UN human rights experts

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights should urgently release her office’s report on Chinese government rights violations targeting Uyghurs and other Turkic communities, almost 200 human rights groups including Human Rights Watch said in an open letter released on March 08, 2022.

Hong Kong authorities should release the hundreds of arbitrarily detained pro-democracy leaders and activists who are now at heightened risk from the city’s surge in Covid-19, the Hong Kong Democracy Council and Human Rights Watch said on March 07, 2022.

Evidence seized in an investigation into the activities of a criminal group specialized in child trafficking for sexual exploitation.

Russian forces fired cluster munitions into at least three residential areas in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, on February 28, 2022, Human Rights Watch said on March 04, 2022. These attacks killed at least three civilians.

The answers to some of the world’s most pressing problems are rooted in human rights, UN Secretary-General António Guterres affirmed on Monday.