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    • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israeli strikes on journalists in Lebanon were ‘apparently deliberate’, say rights groups

      Attacks killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and wounded six others as they filmed shelling on border with Israel

      Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in Turkey in February
    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      Saudi Arabia
      Saudi forces accused of killing hundreds of Ethiopian migrants

      Human rights group says border guards at frontier with Yemen opened fire on unarmed civilians

      Ethiopian Tigray migrants stand in lines
    • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
      InterviewLeadership
      Human Rights Watch’s Tirana Hassan: ‘I had seen too many of my colleagues turn to alcohol’

      Head of the international charity on the personal toll of investigating the world’s dark corners

      Tirana Hassan, wearing black suit and white blouse, sits on a long red sofa
    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      British Indian Ocean Territory
      Human Rights Watch demands full reparations from UK and US for Chagos Islanders

      Britain must answer for ‘appalling colonial crime’ of forced displacement in 1960s and 1970s, says NGO

      A demonstration demanding action by the UK government on human rights for the Chagossian people at Downing Street in 2016
    • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
      UK politics
      UK to tighten anti-protest measures, despite criticism from rights groups

      Legal definition of ‘serious disruption’ to be broadened, allowing police to act earlier against demonstrations

      Just Stop Oil protesters are arrested after they blocked the road in the City of London in October
    • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
      Americas politics & policy
      Crisis of US democracy emboldens Latin American populists, says rights chief

      José Miguel Vivanco warns of risks to region as he steps down from Human Rights Watch for Americas

      José Miguel Vivanco, director for the Americas of Human Rights Watch
    • Friday, 21 January, 2022
      Myanmar
      Total and Chevron pull out of Myanmar gas project

      French group cites lack of progress in sanctions on gas revenues flowing to junta

      A logo near silos and chimneys and at the Total SE Grandpuits oil refinery in Grandpuits-Bailly-Carrois, France
    • Tuesday, 14 September, 2021
      South Korea Society
      South Korea government criticised for not protecting LGBT community

      Human Rights Watch says government inaction has led to ‘pervasive’ discrimination against group

      Participants march during a Pride event in support of LGBT rights in Seoul in 2019
    • Saturday, 10 April, 2021
      Watches & Jewellery
      Jewellery industry makes slow progress on responsible supply chains

      Activists remain concerned with human rights and environmental issues as part of the mining process

    • Monday, 1 March, 2021
      Xinjiang
      Biden pressed for tough response to China’s repression of Uighurs

      Some lawmakers call for boycott of winter Olympics in Beijing over its policies in Xinjiang

    • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
      Xinjiang
      Xinjiang data platform deems people suspicious by association

      Phoning relatives abroad or reading the Koran risks detention in the western Chinese region

    • Sunday, 29 November, 2020
      Middle East
      Iraq empties camps for the displaced as military warns on Isis

      Officials say sprawling sites could become breeding grounds for extremism

    • Monday, 19 October, 2020
      North Korea
      North Korea detention like the ‘dark ages’, report says

      Rights group outlines systemic abuses as Seoul and Washington seek denuclearisation

    • Wednesday, 27 March, 2019
      Chinese politics & policy
      Chinese prosecutors take custody of ex-Interpol president

      Meng Hongwei has been found guilty of ‘severe disciplinary problems’

      FILE - In this July 4, 2017, file photo, Interpol President Meng Hongwei delivers his opening address at the Interpol World Congress, in Singapore. China has expelled former Interpol chief Meng from public office and the ruling Communist Party. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)
    • Monday, 14 January, 2019
      Carlos Ghosn
      Ghosn’s wife condemns Japan’s justice system as ‘draconian’

      Carole Ghosn writes to Human Rights Watch over husband’s ‘harsh treatment’

      (FILES) This file photo taken on May 26, 2017 shows Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn (L) and his wife Carole Ghosn arriving for the screening of the film 'L'Amant Double' (Amant Double) at the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. - In a letter to Human Rights Watch received by AFP on January 14, 2019, Carole Ghosn, the wife of ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn, has alleged her husband is being held in "harsh" conditions and subjected to round-the-clock interrogations intended to extract a confession. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images
    • Thursday, 29 November, 2018
      Mohammed bin Salman Al-Saud
      Argentine judge moves to investigate Saudi crown prince

      Mohammed bin Salman accused of war crimes and torture by Human Rights Watch

      Jorge Marcelo Faurie, Argentine foreign minister, right, welcomes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Buenos Aires on Wednesday
    • Wednesday, 28 November, 2018
      Gunvor Group Ltd
      Commodity trader Gunvor to adopt UN human rights principles
    • Wednesday, 21 November, 2018
      Saudi Arabia
      Saudi activists were tortured during interrogation, say campaigners
    • Tuesday, 21 August, 2018
      World
      Rohingya refugees tortured on return to Myanmar: report
    • Wednesday, 1 August, 2018
      World
      Female activists swept up in Saudi crackdown

      Campaigners say pair detained as authorities target women’s rights groups

      US First Lady Michelle Obama (L) and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pose with Samar Badawi of Saudi Arabia as she receives the 2012 International Women of Courage Award during a ceremony at the US State Department in Washington, DC, on March 8, 2012. The prestigious Secretary of State’s Award for International Women of Courage annually recognizes women around the globe who have shown exceptional courage and leadership in advocating for women’s rights and empowerment, often at great personal risk. AFP Photo/Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
    • Thursday, 22 March, 2018
      Diamonds and gemstones
      Ethical concerns grow over Kimberley Process diamond charter

      The mining process insufficiently protects human rights, campaigners say

      Harriet Kelsall Founder and Chairman of Harriet Kelsall Bespoke Jewellery. At her studio in Primrose Hill. 13/3/18. For Watches and Jewellery Special Reports
    • Thursday, 8 February, 2018
      Diamonds and gemstones
      Top jewellery brands warned on ethics behind supply chains

      Watchdog says most failing to check gold and diamonds free from human rights abuses

      Boodles renovated Bond Street showroom.
    • Thursday, 8 February, 2018
      Diamonds and gemstones
      Top jewellery brands failing to ensure gold, diamonds mined ethically, Human Rights Watch says
    • Tuesday, 16 January, 2018
      World
      Saudi Arabia struggles to check extremism in schools

      Flagship education scheme suspended after claims it was hijacked by Islamists

      Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi boys stand in line on their first day back to school in Riyadh 09 September 2006. Five years after the September 11 attacks, US accusations, claiming the Muslim kingdom's education system is fostering Islamic extremism, continue. Saudi schoolbooks have lately been accused of promoting intolerance of not just non-Muslims, but also of Islamic sects other than the purist Sunni Salafi school from which the Wahhabi doctrine dominant in Saudi Arabia is derived. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
    • Wednesday, 13 December, 2017
      Chinese politics & policy
      China authorities mandated to collect DNA from Xinjiang residents 

      Police in restive region gather fingerprints, blood types, DNA and iris scans

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