Saudi Coalition Airstrikes Target Civilian Factories in Yemen
Seventeen workers remained inside the Middle East Workshop for Sewing and Embroidery when coalition aircraft bombed it on...
calls on Kyrgyz authorities to implement UN Human Rights Committee decision
An ODIHR delegation visited human rights defender Azimjan Askarov in prison in Bishkek on 15 December 2011.
Muted cheers mark South Sudan’s fifth birthday, with millions displaced
Gatluak Ruei Kon, 56, hugs his wife and one of his granddaughters in Akobo, in South Sudan’s Jonglei State. He has not seen his...
Iraq: ISIS Rule Marked by Executions, Cruelty
Syria: UN relief wing sounds alarm on behalf of some 300,000 people trapped in war-torn Aleppo
A girl stands barefoot on a muddy walkway between rows of tent shelters, in the Bab Al Salame camp for internally...
US: Deaths in Immigration Detention
Newly released United States government records summarizing investigations of the deaths of 18 migrants in the custody of US immigration authorities support a conclusion that subpar care contributed to at least seven of the deaths, Human Rights Watch...
UN condemns this week's deadly gun violence in US
Protestors in New York City demonstrate in the wake of the verdict in the case of the police...
Surveillance amendments in new law in Germany pose a threat to media freedom, OSCE Representative says, asks Bundestag to reconsider bill
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović, expressed on 8 July concern about a proposed law on the German Foreign Intelligence Agency (BND, Bundesnachrichtendienst), which was debated in the Bundestag, Germany’s Federal Parliament,...
Burundi: Intelligence Services Torture Suspected Opponents
Burundian intelligence services have tortured and ill-treated scores of suspected government opponents at their headquarters and in secret locations, Human Rights Watch said on Jul 7. Police and members of the ruling party’s youth league, the...
Brazil: Extrajudicial Executions Undercut Rio Security
Rio de Janeiro state promised improvements in public security in preparation for the Olympics, but it has not done enough to address extrajudicial executions by police, a central obstacle to more effective law enforcement, Human Rights Watch said in a...
