Excerpt from video by Forensic Architecture, which conducted a separate investigation of the attack. The findings are consistent with those of Human Rights Watch. © 2017 Forensic Architecture

California pressures poor people who cannot pay bail to plead guilty in order to be released from jail. The system of money bail and pretrial detention also results in the unnecessary jailing of innocent people and undermines justice for all. 

The Human Rights Commission held a a hearing on the recent easing of sanctions on Sudan and its effect on human rights. Jehanne Henry of Human Rights Watch begins at 1:18:12 in the video.

Attacks by the Taliban and other militant groups are having a devastating impact on education in Pakistan.

Armed groups in the Central African Republic have occupied, looted, and damaged school buildings, preventing children from getting an education.

The Islamic State (also known as ISIS) executed and dumped the bodies of possibly hundreds of detainees at a site near Mosul.  

Since 2007, the military use of schools or universities has been documented in at least 29 countries with armed conflict or insecurity.

Egyptian internal security forces waging a campaign in the Sinai Peninsula against an affiliate of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) may have extrajudicially executed at least four and perhaps as many as 10 men in January 2017.

Killings by Ugandan military and police during joint operations in Kasese, western Uganda on November 26-27, 2016, warrant an independent, impartial fact-finding mission with international expertise.

Human Rights Watch Statement to US House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.