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May 13, 2024 News

Chad: Political Transition Ends with Déby’s Election

Ex-President’s Son Declared Winner; Opponent Killed in Lead Up to the Vote

 (Nairobi) – The political transition in Chad ended with violence as at least 9, and possibly more, civilians were reported killed by celebratory gunfire from soldiers and civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 9, 2024, the…
Deby waiving at the crowd
May 13, 2024 News

Philippines’ Marcos Forms Toothless Rights ‘Super Body’

Real Improvements Need Strong Action, Commitment to Reform

 President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has created a “super body” to promote human rights protection in the Philippines.On paper, the Special Committee on Human Rights Coordination looks impressive, and its stated purpose is admirable.…
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivers a speech at Camp Aguinaldo military headquarters in Quezon City, December 21, 2023.
May 13, 2024 News

An Avenue to Justice for Afghan Women

 This article was co-authored by Fereshta Abbasi, Natasha Arnpriester, and Duru YavanBringing a CEDAW Case Before the International Court of Justice[1]In a tumultuous Afghanistan, the plight of women and girls has reached a critical juncture. The…
Afghan women protest in Kabul on August 13, 2022.
May 13, 2024 News

Iraq: Looming Camp Closures in Kurdistan

Displaced Sinjar Residents Imperiled as Compensation, Reconstruction Stalls

 (Beirut) – The planned closure of displaced people’s camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) by a July 30 deadline will imperil the rights of many camp residents from the northern Sinjar district, Human Rights Watch said today.Sinjar…
Chamishko refugee camp in Iraq received many Yazidis who fled the town of Sinjar, August 3, 2014.
May 12, 2024 News

UK Football Regulator Should Not Give Abusers Blank Check

Time for UK to Show State-Sponsored “Sportswashing” the Red Card

 A new Football Governance Bill currently being debated in the United Kingdom’s parliament will establish a much-needed independent regulator for English football. It is being established, following years of rising financial inequality…
Saudia Arabia plays Costa Rica at St James' Park, Newcastle, UK, September 8, 2023.
May 10, 2024 News

With Pause, US Joins Other States Stopping Arms Transfers to Israel

Countries Providing Weapons Risk Complicity in Grave Abuses

 This week, United States President Joe Biden announced that his administration has “held up” at least one shipment of 3,500 bombs and artillery shells to Israel, saying the US wouldn’t transfer certain weapons to Israel if it proceeded…
moke rises after an Israeli air strike on the city of Khan Yunis, Gaza, January 8, 2024.
May 10, 2024 News

School Officials Should Protect Trans Youth, Not “Out” Them

 Transgender youth from California to Alabama are under threat due to a growing trend to pass policies mandating that school staff—and in some cases, any government employee—disclose to their parents if a student identifies as transgender. This…
A school bus makes its way down Market Street during the San Francisco Pride Parade on Sunday, June 25, 2023.
May 10, 2024 News

Germany: British-Palestinian Doctor Denied Schengen Entry

Reported Ban Risks Undermining German Commitment to Free Expression, Assembly

 (London, May 10, 2024) – Germany’s government needs to explain publicly if it has imposed a Schengen-wide entry ban on a prominent British-Palestinian surgeon and academic, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, and, if so, the reasons why, Human Rights Watch…
Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, a Palestinian-British plastic surgeon specializing in conflict medicine, speaks during an interview at the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut, Lebanon, December 9, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Hussein Malla
May 9, 2024 News

Nigerian Journalist’s Detention Threatens Press Freedom

Immediately Release Daniel Ojukwu if No Charges Brought

 Journalists and human rights activists in Nigeria are protesting the arrest and detention of Daniel Ojukwu, a reporter at the Foundation for Investigative Journalism, who went missing in Lagos on May 1. He was later discovered to be in police…
Daniel Ojukwu
May 9, 2024 News

Anti-Loitering Laws Will Not Help California Fight Human Trafficking

Reinstating Abusive Bans Would Harm Marginalized Groups

 In January 2023, California removed “loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution” from the state’s penal code. It was a victory for transgender people, Black communities, trafficking survivors, sex workers…
Activists across the United States have worked to repeal laws which disproportionately criminalize Black and LGBT communities and subject them to police violence, including anti-loitering legislation in California and New York. Above, protesters gather in Union Square in New York City on May 30, 2020.
May 9, 2024 News

Ethiopia: Joint Submission to the Universal Periodic Review

Submitted with Physicians for Human Rights in April 2024 for Ethiopia's 4th Periodic Review

INTRODUCTIONEthiopia's human rights situation deteriorated sharply since its last UPR on May 14, 2019.[1]  Since then, government forces, militias, and armed groups have been committing widespread abuses with impunity, resulting in grave violations…
May 9, 2024 News

Georgia: ‘Foreign Influence’ Bill Threatens Rights

Reject Measure; End Police Violence

 (Berlin, May 9, 2024) – The Georgian parliament’s introduction of a bill obliging certain nongovernmental groups and media outlets to register as “organizations serving the interests of a foreign power” threatens fundamental rights in the…
Tbilisi protests
May 9, 2024 News

Interview: “I Didn’t Think I Would Survive This”

Fleeing Ethnic Violence in El Geneina, West Darfur, Sudan

As a child in West Darfur, Jamal Abdallah Khamis, a 29-year-old ethnic Massalit man, grew up surrounded by violence. He survived the ethnic cleansing campaign perpetrated by Sudanese government forces and their allied militias, known as the “…
Jamal Abdullah Khamis.
May 9, 2024 Video

Sudan: Ethnic Cleansing in West Darfur

(Nairobi, May 9, 2024) – Attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias in El Geneina, the capital city of Sudan’s West Darfur state, in April to November 2023, killed at least thousands of people and left hundreds of thousands as refugees…
May 9, 2024 Report

“The Massalit Will Not Come Home”

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