Rwanda: Opposition Activist Missing
A Rwandan opposition activist has been missing for six months and is feared to have been forcibly disappeared, Human Rights Watch said on Sep 29. People close to the activist, Illuminée Iragena, have not seen her since March 26, 2016, and fear she may...
Bangladesh: Stop ‘Kneecapping’ Detainees
Security forces in Bangladesh are deliberately shooting members and supporters of opposition parties in the leg, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Sep 29. Victims explained that police shot them in custody and then falsely claimed that...
Egypt: Serious Abuses in Scorpion Prison
Authorities at a maximum security prison in Cairo that holds many political prisoners routinely abuse inmates in ways that may have contributed to some of their deaths.
Bangladesh: Stop ‘Kneecapping’ Detainees
Security forces in Bangladesh are deliberately shooting members and supporters of opposition parties in the leg, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Sep 28. Victims explained that police shot them in custody and then falsely claimed that...
Malawi: Mining Puts Residents at Risk
Malawi’s government has failed to protect the rights and livelihoods of people living in nascent mining communities, Human Rights Watch said today in a report released on eve of the International Right to Know Day. Families living near coal and...
US Election and Human Rights
The 2016 US presidential election has generated a great deal of debate on human rights issues—from torture to paid family leave, immigration to policing—on which Human Rights Watch has been working for years. In the lead-up to the vote, our experts...
Pressure on Pakistan government from UN to ratify all human rights treaties signed
On September 20, the Asian Legal Resource Centre, sister organisation to the Asian Human Rights Commission, held a side event during the 33rd Session of the Human Rights Council on the systematic killings of lawyers and human rights activists in...
Statement attributable to Hanaa Singer, UNICEF Representative in Syria, on attacks and deliberate water cuts in Aleppo
“Nearly 2 million people in Aleppo are once again with no running water through the public network.
Ban laments 'dark day' for civilian protection as bombing of Aleppo intensifies
Amid reports of raging battles in and around war-torn Aleppo, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called this a “dark day” for the global commitment to protect civilians, and stressed that the use of 'bunker buster' bombs and other...
Sudan: No Justice for Protester Killings
Sudanese authorities have yet to provide justice to victims of a violent crackdown on anti-austerity protesters in Khartoum in September 2013, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch said...
