Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is an international non-governmental organization, headquartered in New York City, that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
Human Rights's recent articles
25 August 2023
Mass killings of Ethiopian migrants by Saudi Arabia at Yemen border may amount to crimes against humanity
Saudi border guards have killed at least hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers who tried to cross the Yemen-Saudi border between March 2022 and June 2023. Saudi officials are killing hundreds of women and children out of view of the rest of the world while they spend billions on sports-washing to try to improve their image. Saudi Arabia should immediately and urgently revoke any policy to use lethal force on migrants and asylum seekers. Concerned countries should press for accountability and the UN should investigate.
2 July 2023
Put peoples rights first in Syria sanctions
US, UK, EU should amend humanitarian exemptions to facilitate aid.
26 July 2021
Australia Should Back Covid-19 Waiver of Intellectual Property Rules
Prime Minister Scott Morrisons governmenttoldSenate Estimates in June that Australia is not opposed to negotiation of the TRIPS waiver, but has not yet made a decision to support it.
8 May 2021
Abusive Israeli policies constitute crimes of apartheid, persecution
Israeliauthorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The finding is based on an overarching Israeli government policy to maintain the domination by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians and grave abuses committed against Palestinians living in the occupied territory, including East Jerusalem.