March 5, 2018
UN Rights Body: Move Toward Recognition of the Right to a Healthy and Sustainable Environment
Item 3 interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the environment
![Environmental activists chain themselves to a logging machine during an action in the defence of one of the last primeval forests in Europe, Bialowieza forest, Poland May 24, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802europe_poland_environment_logging_protest.jpg?itok=791mNPiJ)
March 5, 2018
Endorsing Safe Schools Declaration important to protect children from horrors of armed conflict
Human Rights Watch statement to HRC panel on Protecting the Rights of the Child in Humanitarian Situations
![2017wrd_Afghanistan_Education](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201710wrd_afghanistan_education.jpg?itok=V-6KDv5z)
March 5, 2018
China’s ‘Win-Win’ Resolution Is Anything But
![Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech in the Palais des Nations at the United Nations in Geneva, January 18, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201709asia_china_un_photo_main.jpg?itok=SBpi6_IB)
March 2, 2018
Uzbekistan Releases Journalist After 19 Years in Prison
Small Positive Step on a Long Road to Respecting Human Rights
![Yusuf Ruzimuradov in an undated photo.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201803centralasia_uzbekistan_ruzimuradov.jpg?itok=WKKm1nkH)
March 2, 2018
Past Time to End Impunity for Atrocities in Eastern Ghouta
Urgent Debate on deteriorating situation of human rights in Eastern Ghouta at the Human Rights Council
![An elderly man walks near a damaged building in the besieged town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, Syria.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802eastern_ghouta_elderlyman.jpg?itok=0aTUS0-J)
March 1, 2018
Why Indonesia’s Christian Diaspora Fears Going Home
![A police officer stands guard during a protest by supporters of Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, outside Cipinang Prison where he was taken following his conviction of blasphemy in Jakarta, Indonesia, 9 May 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201803asia_indonesia_christian.jpg?itok=wOa4B6RX)
March 1, 2018
The Case for a Right to a Healthy Environment
![Illegal logging seized by IBAMA, Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources. Amazon, Brazil.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201701ehr_world_report.jpg?itok=ZxiNjKlu)
March 1, 2018
Engaging in “Whataboutery” Instead of Protecting Rights
![Rohingya refugees walk through rice fields after crossing the border from Myanmar into Palang Khali, Bangladesh, October 19, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201801wr_burma_human_rights.jpg?itok=dOeyVHGY)
February 28, 2018
Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning Hungary
80th pre-sessional working group: List of Issues Prior to Reporting
February 28, 2018
70 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Closing the Implementation Gap
Human Rights Watch Statement to High-level Panel on 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 25th Anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action
![Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN high commissioner for human rights, speaks at the 36th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2017/201711asia_srilanka_hrc.jpg?itok=pIB4YsUW)
![Footage of women and children in immigration holding cells in Douglas, Arizona, September 2015, made public in 2016 after a group of migrants challenged detention conditions in the cells.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802us_crd_main.jpg?itok=XWj9VMtn)
February 28, 2018
Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Protesters, Journalists Detained
Freedom of Assembly Suppressed
![The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) headquarters in Ranya showing considerable damage following demonstrations from December 19-23, 2017, on the streets of the town. © 2018 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201802mena_iraqkrg_puk_headquarters.jpg?itok=fpMEJzSx)
February 28, 2018
Key Bills for Homeless Youth
![LGBT Rainbow Flag](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2016/rainbow_flag_and_blue_skies.jpg?itok=nj7TjiZb)
February 27, 2018
UN Report Details Abuses and War Crimes in South Sudan
Trials Needed to Bring Justice for These Atrocities
![A soldier walks past women carrying their belongings near Benitu, northern South Sudan, February 11, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2018/201801wr_southsudan_human_rights.jpg?itok=soejr3Vc)