Iraq: Pro-Government Militias’ Trail of Death
Government-backed militias have been kidnapping and killing Sunni civilians throughout Iraq’s Baghdad, Diyala, and Hilla provinces over the past five months. The killings and abductions mark a serious escalation in sectarian violence at a time when...
Report on climate change and child rights released by UNICEF
As evidence of the increase in greenhouse gasses mounts, children – the most vulnerable and largest population affected by climate change – continue to be ignored in high level climate negotiations. In response, top climate change thinkers have joined...
Colombia: FARC Battering Afro-Colombian Areas
The identification cards of two sisters who were...
Syria: Barrage of Barrel Bombs
The Syrian government is raining high explosive barrel bombs on civilians in defiance of a unanimous United Nations Security Council resolution, Human Rights Watch said. Resolution 2139 of February 22, 2014, ordered all parties to the conflict in...
US: Halt Expansion of Immigrant Family Detention
The US Congress should support greater due process protections for migrant families rather than increasing funding for facilities to detain those crossing the US southern border, Human Rights Watch said. In the last week of July 2014, Congress is...
US: Surveillance Reform Advances in the Senate
The US Senate should move swiftly to approve a surveillance reform bill introduced on July 29, 2014, by Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, Human Rights Watch said. The bill, known as the USA Freedom Act, is a significant improvement over a...
No safe place for children in Gaza
A boy looks at the remains of a neighbouring house while sitting amid the rubble of another home destroyed...
US: Surveillance Harming Journalism, Law, Democracy
Large-scale US surveillance is seriously hampering US-based journalists and lawyers in their work, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union said in a joint report released. Surveillance is undermining media freedom and the right to...
Brazil: Reforms Fail to End Torture
Torture remains a serious problem in Brazil despite recent measures to curb the practice, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the Brazilian Congress. Congress should approve a bill that would safeguard against ill-treatment of detainees by...
Impact of Iraq conflict on minorities ‘devastating and irreversible’ – UN rights experts
A young girl sleeps surrounded by relatives in their new home, a primary school in Alqosh, Duhok, after...
