Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused the Houthi militias in Yemen of hostage-taking, torture and other serious abuses against people in their custody ...
Human Rights Watch has called on Iran to open impartial investigations into the killing of 30 protesters since January. The human rights organization ...
Residents said they believed up to 200 people were killed in the weeks before ISIS withdrew from the town
The rights group says Iraq ‘shouldn’t risk exposing Mosul civilians to serious harm by militias with a record of recent abuse’
Hungarian police and soldiers accused of beating people up before forcibly expelling them back into Serbia
Watchdog says not even basic details were provided and the inquiry was ‘mired in secrecy’
Lebanese police have arrested a prominent lawyer after he accused government officials of possible complicity in a sex trafficking ring
Israel has imposed a land, air and sea blockade since 2006 on the Islamist Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip
Westerners grossly underestimate number of Syrian refugees, separate report finds
Human Rights Watch urged Egypt to annul the jail sentences handed to four Coptic Christian teenagers for contempt of Islam
The Human Rights Watch report, released Monday, said that cluster munitions, which are widely banned, have been used in at least 14 attacks across ...
Women attacked and burned alive are being accused of sorcery and witchcraft
Human Rights Watch released a report outlining serious flaws in the Iranian electoral system which they say are damaging prospects for free and fair ...
The watchdog said in a report it had documented the use of cluster munitions on 20 occasions since Sep. 30
HRW said the Sunday attack on Douma outside Damascus showed the Syrian government’s ‘appalling disregard for civilians’
In the report, published this week by Human Rights Watch, five such cases are mentioned, and local groups who have documented more than 100 instances are cited
Israeli authorities failed to inform parents of their children’s arrest or whereabouts
In Egypt, it is common to blame women for being attacked, particularly when expressing their right to protest
Sisi was elected president after ousting the country’s first freely elected leader, Mohamed Mursi, in 2013
Human Rights Watch says civilians, including foreign nationals, are trapped in several neighborhoods in Libya’s embattled eastern city of Benghazi
‘The incidents, possible war crimes, exemplify the grave threats to civilians in the embattled southern seaport,’ said HRW
HRW says the trial did not establish Mursi’s ‘criminal guilt’
New York-based Human Rights Watch has issued a statement criticizing the trial of 51 alleged supporters of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
HRW estimates that at least 3,750 civilians died during Boko Haram attacks in 2014
Cluster bombs explode in the air, scattering dozens of smaller bomblets over an area the size of a sports field
Over the past four years, a total of 610 medical personnel were killed, 139 of whom were tortured or executed
HRW confirmed Kenneth Roth took down the tweet as it was potentially confusing
Human Rights Watch warned the Kurdistan regional government against meting out ‘collective punishment of entire Arab communities’
The report claims that schools, hospitals and mosques have all been hit in air strikes where barrel bombs have been used
The United Nations says the conflict has taken up to 300,000 lives and displaced millions
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