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August 28, 2024 Report

Sudan: Warring Parties Execute Detainees, Mutilate Bodies

Halt and Investigate Abuses as War Crimes

People on fire
August 26, 2024 Statement

Joint Statement Requesting EU Action on Israel’s Unprecedented Killing of Journalists and Other Violations of Media Freedom in Gaza

Yair Lapid, then Israeli foreign minister and current prime minister, speaks with the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borell during a July 2021 meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
August 26, 2024 News Release

Gaza: Israeli Aid Obstruction Inflaming Polio Outbreak

Immediate Humanitarian Access Needed to Vaccinate Hundreds of Thousands of Children

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive walk next to sewage flowing into the streets of the southern town of Khan Younis in Gaza, July 4, 2024.
August 26, 2024 Report

Israel: Palestinian Healthcare Workers Tortured

ICC Prosecutor Should Investigate Attacks on Health Care, Detainee Abuses

A leaked photograph of the detention facility at the Sde Teiman military base shows a blindfolded man with his arms above his head. Interviewed healthcare workers described this image as punishment imposed by Israeli soldiers on Palestinian detainees if they speak or move.
August 8, 2024 News Release

Gaza: Israeli Forces Open Fire While Storming Home

Investigate Unlawful Killings of Eight Civilians

An Israeli soldier aims his weapon in front of a destroyed building in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza on January 27, 2024.
July 17, 2024 Dispatches

Media Freedoms Should Not Be a Target in DR Congo

Cancel Jessy Kabasele’s Suspension, Ensure Journalists Can Work Safely, Freely

Journalists attend an election rally for president President Felix Tshisekedi in Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on December 10, 2023.
July 17, 2024 News Release

October 7 Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes by Hamas-led Groups

Armed Groups Holding Hostages Should Free Them Immediately

A framed family photo hung up on the wall of a burned home
July 17, 2024 Q & A

Questions and Answers: The Hamas-Led Armed Groups' October 7, 2023 Assault on Israel

Photographs of Israelis taken as hostages during an October 7 attack by Hamas-led fighters, at a protest demanding their release, outside the HaKirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 17, 2023. 
June 26, 2024 Report

Yemen: Houthis Disappear Dozens of UN, Civil Society Staff

Release Detainees; End Arbitrary Arrests and Enforced Disappearances

The UN special envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, meets with local officials in Taizz, Yemen, February 12, 2024.
June 21, 2024 Statement

Sudan: UN rights council should continue efforts to advance accountability for ongoing atrocities

Human Rights Watch Statement on the UN Human Rights Council 56th session Item 2: Interactive Dialogue on the oral update by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan

June 5, 2024 Witness

Children Are Among the Hardest Hit by Haiti’s Violence

Four Young People Share Their Stories

Inside the École Communautaire in the Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on May 9, 2024. The school was abandoned in late February 2024 as gang violence made safe access for students and teachers impossible.
May 30, 2024 Commentary

Denouncing the war is all very well – but the people of Gaza also need urgent medical care

Egypt and a few countries are doing all they can, but the wider international community must step up

Al-Arish General Hospital in north Sinai, which is treating some patients who were evacuated from Gaza C Milena, April 2024.
May 29, 2024 News Release

Ukraine: Russia’s Odesa Cluster Munition Attack Harms Civilians

Renewed Focus Needed on Treaty Ban

Odesa Legal Academy in flames after a Russian cluster munition attack, April 29, 2024.
May 28, 2024 Dispatches

Kenya-Led Security Mission Prepares for Deployment in Haiti

Transparency, Safeguards Needed to Uphold Human Rights

Supplies are offloaded from a U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo plane on the tarmac at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The plane was carrying supplies for the camp being built for Kenyan police officers who will lead a Multinational Security Support mission into Haiti, May 15, 2024.
May 23, 2024 News Release

Yemen: Houthi Landmines Claim Lives, Livelihoods

Cease Use of Banned Mines; Accelerate Demining Operations

Abdullah, 35, who lost both of his legs to a landmine while taking goats to graze, with his two children, Al-Shaqb, Yemen, April 27, 2024.

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