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March 7, 2022 Dispatches

Under Shelling in Kharkiv

People with Disabilities Need to Evacuate Safely

A view of the central square following shelling of the City Hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. © March 1, 2022
March 4, 2022 Dispatches

A Sick Baby Clings to Life in a Ukraine Basement

Allow Safe Evacuation of Civilians at Risk

Women and their children sit in the basement of a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward and used as a bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine
March 4, 2022 News Release

Ukraine: Cluster Munitions Launched Into Kharkiv Neighborhoods

Russian Forces’ Indiscriminate Attacks May Amount to War Crimes

Cluster munitions attacks in Kharkiv on February 28, 2022.
February 26, 2022 News Release

Russia: Arbitrary Detentions of Anti-War Protesters

Mass Arrests of Demonstrators, Activists; Police Brutality

People attend an anti-war protest, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
February 25, 2022 News Release

Ukraine: Russian Cluster Munition Hits Hospital

4 Civilians Killed, 10 Wounded

Damage from a cluster munition attack outside the Central City Hospital in Vuhledar.
February 22, 2022 News Release

Canada: Let Gravely Ill Canadians Leave Northeast Syria

Obstructing Care for Detained Woman, Child Flouts Government Policy

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February 16, 2022 Statement

Normative standards and obligations under international law in relation to the promotion and protection of the human rights of older persons

HRW Submission to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

February 4, 2022 Report

Northeast Syria: Fate of Hundreds of Boys Trapped in Siege Unknown

Protect and Clarify Conditions of Detainees Recaptured from ISIS

Fighters with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces deploy around al-Sina’a prison in the Ghweran district of al-Hasakah, northeast Syria, on January 25, 2022, midway through the 10-day battle to recapture it from the Islamic State (ISIS). © 2022 AFP Photo via Getty Images
January 26, 2022 Statement

Northeast Syria: Help Detainees from Recaptured ISIS-Held Prison

International Action Needed to Resolve Broader Detention Crisis

January 26, 2022 Report

Kazakhstan: Killings, Excessive Use of Force in Almaty

Partners Should Press for Investigation into Abusive Response to Protests, Unrest

Riot police officers holding 12-gauge shotguns, which can fire both lethal and less-lethal ammunition, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022.
January 19, 2022 Commentary

The Symbol of US Abuse in the Global War on Terror

Why President Biden should fulfill his pledge to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay

The first foreign Muslim men imprisoned by the US military at the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in the so-called “global war on terror.” Since January 2002, the US has held nearly 800 men and boys at Guantánamo. Of the 39 who currently remain, 27 have never been charged. © 2002 Shane McCoy/Greg Mathieson/Mai/Getty Images
January 18, 2022 Report

Greece: New Biometrics Policing Program Undermines Rights

Risk of Illegal Racial Profiling and Other Abuses

Police officers check the documents and permissions of people in the streets of Athens, Greece, March 23, 2020. 
January 9, 2022 News Release

20 Years of US Torture – and Counting

Global Costs of Unlawful Detention and Interrogation Post-9/11

The first foreign Muslim men imprisoned by the US military at the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in the so-called “global war on terror.” Since January 2002, the US has held nearly 800 men and boys at Guantánamo. Of the 39 who currently remain, 27 have never been charged. © 2002 Shane McCoy/Greg Mathieson/Mai/Getty Images
January 9, 2022 Journal Article

Legacy of the “Dark Side”

The Costs of Unlawful US Detentions and Interrogations Post-9/11

December 9, 2021 Report

Ethiopia: Tigray Forces Summarily Execute Civilians

UN Rights Body Should Create International Inquiry into War Crimes

The shallow grave of an unidentified person killed during fighting in the village of Chenna, in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Residents said it was dug in early September 2021 after Tigrayan fighters left the area. © 2021 Tom Gardner

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