Before-and-after satellite imagery of Syria, combined with witness testimony, video, and photos, show that Syrian authorities deliberately and unlawfully demolished thousands of residential buildings in Damascus and Hama in 2012 and 2013.
Thousands of families have lost their homes as a result of these demolitions.
Ukrainian protest leader Dmitri Bulatov, who “disappeared” eight days ago, had been found and is alive, but has been severely beaten. A number of activists in Ukraine have been detained or disappeared.
Human Rights Watch is on the ground in Kiev, documenting government abuses against the protesters.
Violence in the Central African Republic is spiraling downwards, as these sobering photographs by Marcus Bleasdale show. Human Rights Watch’s Peter Bouckaert, who has been working together with Bleasdale, is reporting from the ground.Representatives from Human Rights Watch are testifying tonight before a special committee in the Canadian House of Commons on violence experienced by indigenous women and girls and police misconduct.
The South Sudan town of Bor has seen too much fighting since South Sudan collapsed into conflict. The cost in human lives is all around, but evidence of the killings is fast disappearing.
Members of Greece’s parliament should urgently establish an inquiry into allegations of expulsions, pushbacks, and dangerous maneuvers by the Greek Coast Guard on Greece’s sea borders with Turkey. Twelve women and children died off the Greek island of Farmakonisi on January 20, in what survivors allege was a push-back operation in poor weather.
