(Moscow) – Millions of sports fans, members of the press, and policymakers across the globe now know how to find Sochi on the map. Russian authorities boast on the official website of the Games that “Sochi will become an example to other cities of Russia and the world. The Games …

Singapore held elections in July, with the ruling People’s Action Party taking 83 out of 93 seats, with 61.2 percent of the popular vote . The opposition Workers’ Party won 10 seats—a record high for the opposition. The government continued to use harsh and overly broad laws rest…

VAAGN MNATSAKANIAN: “In the first days of the war, we had no idea that such a tragedy could take place.” TETIANA BURAK: “That’s why a lot of people didn’t evacuate.” MYKHAILO PURYSHEV, MARIUPOL RESIDENT AND HUMANITARIAN VOLUNTEER: “With the onset of the war, everyone’s life chang…

(Istanbul) – A new law on Turkey ’s National Intelligence Agency greatly increases its surveillance powers while threatening journalists who expose its abuses with prison terms, Human Rights Watch said today. The law would decrease state accountability, media freedom, and the rig…

Dear Secretary Rumsfeld, Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned at recent reports that at least three children, ages thirteen to fifteen, are among the detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay. We assume that like adult detainees, these children are unable to talk with attorneys, h…

Truth & Partial Justice in Argentina: An Update | HRW Would you like to see a version of this page that loads faster by showing text only? Yes For more than a decade, Argentina has commanded the attention of the international community for two widely divergent reasons: atrocious …

(New York) – The approximately 2,570 youth offenders serving life without parole sentences in adult US prisons experience conditions that violate fundamental human rights, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The United States is the only country in the world with …

The word “coup” in French literally means “blow” or “shock.” The latter meaning aptly describes the reaction of the world to the events in Turkey on the night of July 15-16 by elements of its military. The circumstances of the coup attempt are still far from clear. What is clear …

(Beirut) – Hackers backed by the Iranian government have targeted two Human Rights Watch staff members and at least 18 other high-profile activists, journalists, researchers, academics, diplomats, and politicians working on Middle East issues in an ongoing social engineering and …

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(New York) - Authorities in Turkmenistan are forcing residents to dismantle privately owned satellite dishes, Human Rights Watch said today. A move that unjustifiably interferes with the right to receive and impart information and ideas, this serves to further isolate people in T…

Summary In the past three decades, the Cambodian government has created national parks with little concern for local communities and Indigenous peoples. In practice, these large nature reserves have obstructed the recognition and titling of their traditional territories. At the s…

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) continued in 2015 to arbitrarily detain and in some cases forcibly disappear individuals who criticized the authorities, and its security forces continued to face allegations that they torture detainees in pretrial detention. The UAE passed an anti-…

Summary In recent years Turkmenistan has ceased to renew expired, expiring, or nonvalid passports or replace lost ones for its citizens living abroad via diplomatic missions. As a result, many Turkmen migrants cannot conform to migration laws of the countries where they reside. T…

(Istanbul) – A new law on Turkey ’s National Intelligence Agency greatly increases its surveillance powers while threatening journalists who expose its abuses with prison terms, Human Rights Watch said today. The law would decrease state accountability, media freedom, and the rig…