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August 27, 2024 Dispatches

Taliban’s Relentless Assault on Afghan Women’s Bodies, Autonomy

New Laws Prohibit Public Singing, Speaking, Exposing Faces

A 15-year-old girl, barred from attending secondary school since 2021, reads a notebook in Afghanistan, March 20, 2024.
August 27, 2024 News Release

Ukraine Moves to Join ICC

But Limits in Ratification Law Compromise Hopes for Justice

 Ukrainian Parliament during a session in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 21, 2024.
August 27, 2024 Commentary

Protesters Around the World Are Targeting Inequality. Governments Must Listen

Anti-quota protestors and police are engaging in a clash in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on July 18, 2024.
August 27, 2024 Letter

Human Rights Watch letter to the presidents of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico on the crisis in Venezuela

August 27, 2024 News Release

Kazakhstan: Unjustified ‘Financing Terrorism’ Restrictions

Revise Extremism, Terrorism Laws; End Arbitrary Financial Punishments

Protesters hold placards during an opposition rally
August 27, 2024 News Release

Cameroon: ‘Disappeared’ Activist Resurfaces with Marks of Torture

Release Cotta, Ensure Access to Medical Care, Investigate Abuse Allegations

Ramon Cotta (right) and his lawyer Hippolyte Tiakouang Meli
August 26, 2024 Dispatches

UN Report Details Sri Lanka’s Dire Rights Situation

Human Rights Council Should Renew Monitoring, Evidence Collection

Sri Lankan police disperse anti-government protesters with tear gas and water cannons during a protest demanding the resignation of President Rani Wickremesinghe’s government in Colombo, Sri Lanka, September 24, 2022.
August 26, 2024 News Release

Bangladesh: Back UN Investigation into Grave Abuses

Interim Government Should Seek Support at Upcoming Human Rights Council Session

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, right, takes the oath of office as the head of Bangladesh's interim government in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 8, 2024.
August 26, 2024 Letter

Letter to Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus Regarding Rebuilding Respect for Human Rights in Bangladesh

August 26, 2024 Dispatches

Philippine Censors Ban Film on Enforced Disappearances

Marcos Administration Should Overturn X Rating on Documentary

Edita Burgos (R) holds a portrait of her missing son, Jonas Burgos, while posing with her younger son JL Burgos, who directed the film “Alipato at Muog," a documentary about Jonas’ forced disappearance, Cinemalaya Film Festival, Pasay, Philippines, August 1, 2024.
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 Commentary

Britain Needs to End Its Two-Tier Approach to Protection of Civilians in Gaza and Ukraine

eople salvage belongings amid the rubble of a damaged building following strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, November 12, 2023.
August 26, 2024 Commentary

It’s Not a Dystopian Novel — It’s Afghanistan Today

Afghan women hold placards demanding their right to education, in Mazar-i-Sharif on June 26, 2023.
August 26, 2024 News Release

Killer Robots: New UN Report Urges Treaty by 2026

States Need to Open Negotiations in New Forum to Meet Deadline

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
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.

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