Regarding Child and Youth Human Rights Defenders Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input on the challenges and risks child and youth human… Read More »Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders
Junta Using Conscription to Punish Critics Burkina Faso’s military junta is using a sweeping emergency law against perceived dissidents to expand its crackdown on dissent,… Read More »Burkina Faso: Emergency Law Targets Dissidents
It’s Time to Support Africa’s Maternal Community Health Workers The world recently marked the United Nations’ first International Day of Care and Support, recognizing the… Read More »It’s Time to Support Africa’s Maternal Community Health Workers
Students Arrested for Criticizing Ugandan Oil Project On Monday, nine student climate activists in Uganda will again appear before a Kampala court charged with “common… Read More »Ugandan Authorities Should Drop Charges Against Oil Activists
Authorities Should Urgently, Impartially, and Transparently Investigate Attacks On Wednesday, Takudzwa Ngadziore, an opposition member of parliament in Zimbabwe, alleged he was being abducted and… Read More »Zimbabwe Opposition Parliament Member Allegedly Abducted, Tortured
Abuses, Impunity Amid Waning International Attention (Nairobi) – Fighting and serious rights abuses persist in northern Ethiopia a year after the signing of the cessation… Read More »Ethiopia: Atrocities Mar Ceasefire Anniversary
Environmental Defenders Face Harassment, Intimidation, Arbitrary Arrests Anti-fossil fuel activists and environmental defenders in Uganda face repeated harassment, including arbitrary arrests, for protesting a planned… Read More »Uganda: Oil Pipeline Protests Stifled
Attacks, Summary Killings Without Accountability Islamist armed groups and Malian armed forces have killed and otherwise abused numerous civilians in central and northern Mali since… Read More »Mali: Islamist Armed Groups, Army Target Civilians
More Support Options Needed I first met Pamela (not her real name) in a spiritual healing center, known as a “prayer camp,” during my first… Read More »A Path to Belonging for People with Psychosocial Disabilities in Ghana
Support Monitoring, Housing, Independent Living, Job Training (Accra) – Ghana’s 2017 ban on shackling people with psychosocial disabilities – or mental health conditions – has… Read More »Ghana: End Chaining for Mental Health Conditions