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June 28, 2024 News

Respect Right to Protest; Investigate Apparent use of Excessive Force

 (Nairobi) – Kenyan security forces shot directly into crowds of protesters on June 25, 2024, including protesters who were fleeing, Human Rights Watch said today. Protests began in cities and towns across Kenya and online after the Finance Bill…
A protester holds a Kenyan flag during the nationwide demonstration against proposed legislation which would increase taxes across the country's economy.
June 28, 2024 News

Authorities Unleashed Militarized Border Force on Students

 While the pro-Palestinian student protests and accounts of police crackdowns at universities across the United States in April have fallen out of the newscycle, students at the University of Texas at Austin continue to face criminal…
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators face off with Texas Department of Public Safety officers at the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, US, April 24, 2024.
June 28, 2024 News

UN Report Shows Foreign Banks Help Military Receive Revenue, Buy Arms

 (New York) – The United States, European Union, and other governments should urgently counter illicit activities by foreign banks that are assisting the Myanmar military in evading sanctions imposed after its 2021 coup, Human Rights Watch said…
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June 28, 2024 News

New Law Essential to Protecting Girls from Abuse

 Last week, Sierra Leone’s parliament enacted landmark legislation to ban child marriage. The Prohibition of Child Marriage Bill 2024, which makes marriage for anyone under 18 a criminal offense, seeks to protect girls from a harmful practice that…
A student poses for a portrait in the classroom of her school in Koidu, Kono district, Sierra Leone, on November 24, 2020. 
June 28, 2024 News

Coordinated Response Needed Against Efforts to Stifle Dissent Across Borders

 Many journalists living in exile are being targeted by their home governments in an attempt to silence them, the United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression told the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday, voicing concern…
United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2023.
June 28, 2024 News

Accelerate legal action against Hungary, seek suspension of repressive legislation

(Brussels, June 28, 2024) – The EU should take immediate action to protect civic space in Hungary, Human Rights Watch and nine other organizations said in a statement released on June 27, 2024. The EU should accelerate legal…
June 28, 2024 News

As Abuses Fuel Egypt’s Economic Crisis, EU Should Press for Rights Reforms

 European Union leaders and investors are gathering in Cairo on June 29 and 30 for the “Egypt-EU Investment Conference,” which will bring billions to Egypt’s abusive leadership.The conference comes a few months after the controversial…
Austria Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer, Greece Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen, Egypt president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides, Belgium Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and Italy Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni pictured at a diplomatic meeting on March 17, 2024 in Cairo, Egypt.
June 27, 2024 News

Removing Outdated Pathologizing Terms, A Step Toward Dignity

 Peru’s Ministry of Health has clarified that trans identities are not mental health conditions, walking back a heavily criticized presidential decree in May that portrayed trans identities as diagnosable in in the Essential Health Insurance Plan (…
Peruvians protest in front of Peru's Ministry of Health against a presidential decree classifying transgender identities as mental health conditions in Lima, Peru, May 17, 2024.
June 27, 2024 News

A growing indifference to suffering that is baked into the legal system

 In recent years, advocates have faced an unprecedented avalanche of anti-LGBTQ legislation each spring. In 2024, however, the onslaught seems to have faltered somewhat. While hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills were once again introduced, as many…
An activist wears a the transgender pride flag as a counter protest during a rally in favor of a ban on gender-affirming health care legislation at the Missouri Statehouse in Jefferson, US, March 20, 2023.
June 27, 2024 News

New Report Shows Fewer Attacks, but Increasing Military Use of Schools

 The good news is that during 2022 and 2023, attacks on schools in Mozambique significantly decreased, according to a report released last week. The bad news is that Mozambique has seen a jump in the use of schools for military purposes…
The Pulo Primary School after an insurgent attack on the village of Pulo, in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, March 6, 2024.
June 27, 2024 News

4.4 Million People in the US Disenfranchised, Despite Worldwide Trend to Restore Eligibility

 (Washington, DC, June 27, 2024) – The United States is out of step with the rest of the world in disenfranchising large numbers of citizens based on criminal convictions, the Sentencing Project, Human Rights Watch, and the American Civil…
People stand in line to vote
June 27, 2024 Report
Executive SummaryThe United States is an outlier nation in that it strips voting rights from millions of citizens[1] solely on the basis of a criminal conviction.[2] As of 2022, over 4.4 million people in the United States were disenfranchised due to a…
June 27, 2024 News

Limited Opportunity to Challenge Deportation Orders

 (Beirut) – Iraqi authorities in Baghdad and Erbil have arbitrarily detained and deported Syrians to Damascus and to parts of northeast Syria under the control of Kurdish-led forces, Human Rights Watch said today. Iraqi authorities…
 Erbil International Airport in Erbil, Iraq March 17, 2020.
June 26, 2024 News

Roning Dolah Assisted Malay Muslim Torture Victims

 (Bangkok) – Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a prominent human rights defender in Pattani province in southern Thailand on June 25, 2024, Human Rights Watch said today. Thai authorities should urgently conduct a transparent and impartial…
Roning Dolah, anti-torture activist, was shot dead on June 25, 2024 in Thailand's Pattani province.
June 26, 2024 News

Immediately, Unconditionally Release Narges Mohammadi

 Last week, an Iranian court imposed a new bogus sentence on imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights defender Narges Mohammadi. Branch 29 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Mohammadi to another year in Iran’s Evin prison on…
Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, Tehran, Iran, April 2, 2021.
June 26, 2024 News

Government Discrimination Threatens Muslim Female Students’ Futures

 Government officials in Sri Lanka are withholding exam results from 70 Muslim women and girls because their head coverings allegedly covered their ears while they took their exams. The decision violates the students’ right to freedom of religion and…
Girls walk along a road in Kattankudy, Sri Lanka, April 25, 2019.
June 26, 2024 News
Over the last year, Ecuador has repeatedly grabbed headlines due to the growing presence of organized crime in the country. Without more international attention, the next country to do so may be Peru — thanks to Peru’s own government.A mosaic of private…
June 26, 2024 News

Top Russian Military Command Sought for Prosecution in The Hague

 New arrest warrants by International Criminal Court (ICC) judges were issued this week against former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and chief of the general staff of Russia’s armed forces, Valery Gerasimov. These warrants are a…
Former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, right, and Russian Chief of General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov attend a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with commanders of military districts at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, May 15, 2024.
June 26, 2024 News

With so many activists in Uzbekistan once again behind bars, the president’s promises of reform ring increasingly hollow.

As the government of Uzbekistan celebrates the election of its representatives to three international rights bodies in the last month, my attention is on the increasing number of activists, bloggers, and government critics the very same government has…

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