Egypt Elections Amidst Political Repression
As Egypt concludes its third day of voting for a new president, the intense crackdown on dissent over the last 10 months has created a repressive environment that severely undermines the fairness of the elections.
Bahrain: A System of Injustice
Bahrain’s criminal justice system fails to deliver basic accountability and impartial justice, Human Rights Watch said in a report released.
Bangladesh: Release Factory Inspection Reports
Bangladesh government and retailers have largely failed to make public the findings of factory safety inspections ordered after the April 2013 Rana Plaza catastrophe that killed and injured several thousand workers, Human Rights Watch said. Reports...
Ending violence against children: Translating data into action
Ways to translate data on violence against boys and girls into concrete measures to stop it will be discussed at a global meeting to be held in the capital of Swaziland, 28-30 May 2014.
Ukraine: Free ‘Disappeared’ Journalist
Ukrainian authorities should immediately release a journalist apparently forcibly disappeared since May 10, 2014 by government military forces in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, Human Rights Watch said. Since the arrest of Artyom Larionov, a...
Iraq: Government Attacking Fallujah Hospital
Iraqi government forces battling armed groups in the western province of Anbar since January 2014 have repeatedly struck Fallujah General Hospital with mortar shells and other munitions, Human Rights Watch said. The recurring strikes on the main...
Senior UN officials urge Brazzaville to halt expulsion of DR Congo nationals
DR Congo citizens deported from Brazaville waiting in a Maluku transit camp near Kinshasa, May 2014.
UN Committee Addresses Clergy Rape and Sexual Violence as Torture
The United Nations Committee Against Torture found that the widespread sexual violence within the Catholic church amounted to torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment prohibited by theUnited Nations Convention Against Torture. The committee...
Yemen: Migrants Held at ‘Torture Camps’
Ethiopian migrant, 19, at a local medical facility in Haradh. He said he was tortured for a...
Killing of Palestinian teenagers in West Bank elicits UN call for prompt investigation
The United Nations human rights chief has voiced her “very serious concerns” about a recent incident involving the killing of two Palestinian teenagers in the occupied West Bank.
