Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch

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Human Rights Watch was founded in 1978 as “Helsinki Watch,” investigating rights abuses in countries that signed the Helsinki Accords. Currently, HRW investigates massacres, genocides, government take-overs of media and the arrests of activists and political opposition figures, as well as abuses and discrimination against women, LGBT people, and people with disabilities.

Planned UK-Gulf Trade Agreement Risks Implicating the U...

A trade agreement with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states risks contributing ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban Ban Medical Training for Women

This week the Taliban in Afghanistan closed one of the last remaining loopholes ...

Gaza: Israel’s Northern Offensive Endangering Hundreds ...

Israel’s renewed northern Gaza offensive is displacing and endangering hundreds ...

African Rights Commission: Press Burkina Faso on Rights

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights should focus on the most cri...

UN: World Leaders Should Act to End Rights Crises

World leaders gathering for the United Nations General Assembly’s annual General...

Iran: 2 Years On From Woman’s Death, No Change

Iranian authorities’ brutal repression against women has only continued in the t...

Victory for Same-Sex Marriage in Thailand

Thailand’s Senate voted 130-4 today to pass a same-sex marriage bill that the lo...

Guilty Verdict in High-Profile Kazakhstan Domestic Viol...

Members of the Kazakhstan diaspora and supporters attend the “Justice for Saltan...

US Universities Should Respect Right to Protest

Pro-Palestinian student protesters at a demonstration at Columbia University on ...

Brazil: Mixed Rights Record for Lula’s First Year

The administration led by Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has made ...

Israel: Starvation Used as Weapon of War in Gaza

The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare i...

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