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Lens Omelonga Jailed 7 Months for a Social Media Post Last week, the authorities released opposition member Lens Omelonga from prison in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He had spent seven months in custody for having retweeted a post criticizing a foundation established by Denise Nyakeru Tshisekedi, the wife of Congo’s […]
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Ensure Justice, Accountability, Compensate Victims for Devastating Loss (Abuja) – Nigerian authorities should thoroughly and impartially investigate why army airstrikes in northwestern Kaduna state on December 3, 2023, killed 85 people at a religious celebration and severely injured dozens of others, Human Rights Watch said today. They should also adequately compensate the survivors and the […]
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New Video Shows People Living Rich Lives with Community Support The Ghanaian government should provide rights-based mental health services and adequate support for housing, independent living, and job training for people with mental health conditions, Human Rights Watch said today, ahead of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, […]
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Investigate Possible Politically Motivated Conscription of Daouda Diallo (Nairobi) – The government of Burkina Faso should immediately investigate and provide information on the whereabouts of the prominent human rights activist Daouda Diallo, Human Rights Watch said today. On December 1, 2023, at about 4 p.m., four or more unidentified men abducted Diallo, the secretary-general of […]
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The End of the UN’s Political Mission in the Country Comes As Its Action to Protect Civilians is Needed. Published in : Al Jazeera As devastating videos and bone-chilling accounts of massacres continue to come out of Sudan, the United Nations has appeared to jettison what little remained of its civilian protection role in the country. […]
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Home Affairs Department’s Proposals Would Undermine Refugee Rights Migration may be an increasingly contentious issue in South Africa, but that does not justify taking an axe to refugee rights and chipping away at the country’s commitments under the United Nations’ 1951 Refugee Convention, as the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) recently proposed alongside other immigration […]
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Surveillance System Jeopardizes Right to Privacy Uganda’s new surveillance system, which allows the government to track the real time location of all vehicles in the country, undermines privacy rights, and creates serious risks to the rights to freedom of association and expression, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should scrap the system. On November […]
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Security Council Should Break Its Silence, Bolster UN Mission The Rapid Support Forces(RSF), an independent military group with a long history of abuse in Sudan, has reached El Fasher, the only major city in the Darfur region still outside its control. Since April, the RSF have been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces(SAF) in Khartoum and […]
...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 rights defenders face for the upcoming report by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. This submission discusses the risks climate activists have faced in Australia, India, […]
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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, Human Rights Watch said today. Between November 4 and 5, 2023, the Burkinabe security forces notified in writing or by telephone at least a dozen journalists, civil society activists, and […]
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