Human Rights Watch’s Statement to the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute Committee on Budget and Finance ...

Member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) are in Geneva right now in another round of negotiations for a new ...

Islamist armed groups in Burkina Faso have escalated their attacks on civilians, massacring villagers, displaced people, and ...

Heather Barr is associate director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. She has researched human rights in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New ...

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Human Rights Watch also spoke with seven people who witnessed ... to stabilize broken fingers and a torn tendon in his right hand, which was then placed in a cast, and an open wound on his left ...

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Judges Set to Deliver Advisory Opinion on Occupied Palestinian Territory ...

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For example, Human Rights Watch, among others, has documented devastating ethnic cleansing in West Darfur. Given the prevalence of such atrocities in the conflict, Human Rights Watch has called ...

It united women, with the support of men, from diverse communities including Kurds, Baluchis, and other marginalized communities alongside educators, students, and activists in a collective fight for ...