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April 12, 2024

Sudan: One Year of Atrocities Requires New Global Approach

As global and regional leaders meet in Paris to spotlight Sudan and mark the one-year anniversary of the country’s brutal conflict between Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF), they should make clear that those responsible for ongoing atrocities and other violations of international humanitarian law will be held to account.
A destroyed medical storage facility in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur province, Sudan, May 2, 2023.
April 12, 2024

Belarus Calls LGBT Lives ‘Pornography’

Belarus has hit a new low in its targeting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. As of today, the definition of pornography under Belarusian law will include depictions of same-sex relationships as well as transgender people.
Belarusian LGBTQ activists with white-red-white flags participate in the Warsaw Equality Parade, June 25, 2022.
April 12, 2024

Georgia: Abandon ‘Foreign Agent’ Registration Law

The Georgian government should withdraw permanently its plans to reintroduce so-called “foreign agent” legislation, Human Rights Watch and five labor rights organizations and trade unions said in a statement released today. The bill would require foreign-funded nongovernmental organizations, media and trade unions to register as “agents of foreign influence.”
Protesters march outside the parliament building in protest of “the Russian law” in Tbilisi, Georgia, April 9, 2024.
April 12, 2024

Germany: Landmark Vote for Trans Rights Law

Germany’s parliament on April 12, 2024, passed a landmark law that allows transgender and non-binary people to modify their legal documents to reflect their gender identity through an administrative procedure based on self-identification.
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April 12, 2024

China: Immediately release human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and activist Xu Yan

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, are deeply concerned about this case and call for the immediate and unconditional release of Yu Wensheng and his wife, activist Xu Yan, as they have been detained solely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights including the right to freedom of expression.
April 12, 2024

Germany’s Antisemitism Battle Needs Focus on Education

In early February, a 30-year-old Jewish student was hospitalized following an attack by a fellow student at Berlin’s largest public university, Freie Universität Berlin. Berlin’s authorities treated the attack as politically motivated antisemitic violence and attributed it to the impact in Europe of the escalation in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Beating of Jewish student intensifies deabte over Gaza conflict at Berlin’s largest public university, the Freie Universität, February 9, 2024.
April 11, 2024

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls in Sport

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls to the United Nations General Assembly on violence against women and girls in sport. This submission covers sexual and gender-based violence in sport in Mali, Haiti, and Afghanistan; child abuse in sport in Japan; and sex testing of women athletes.
April 11, 2024

Thailand: Halt Forced Returns to Myanmar

The Thai government’s decision not to forcibly return 19 children to Myanmar should be expanded to include all refugees from Myanmar, Human Rights Watch said today.
Displaced people from Myanmar carry donated lunch boxes to their tents along the Thai side of the Moei River in Mae Sot
April 11, 2024

Joint Letter: The EU Must Urgently Act At One Year Of Conflict In Sudan

One year on from the start of the conflict in Sudan on 15 April 2023, and as the Foreign Affairs Council meets on Sudan on 22 April 2024, our organizations call on the European Union and its member states to take urgent, strategic and concrete steps to respond to the massive cost on civilians of the dramatic human rights and humanitarian crisis in the country and prevent further violations.