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September 22, 2025 Background Briefing

Challenging Ukraine’s Mine Ban Treaty “Suspension”

A Humanitarian and Legal Imperative

A humanitarian deminer at work in Mykolaiv region, Ukraine, April 16, 2025.

September 22, 2025 Report

Venezuela: Political Prisoners Cut Off from the World

Incommunicado Detention; Political Persecution

Activists and relatives of prisoners release balloons calling for the freedom of political prisoners, in Caracas, Venezuela, April 14, 2025.

September 19, 2025 Statement

Human Rights Watch Oral Statement at the 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

HRW Oral Statement - Item 4: ID with the Special Rapporteur on Burundi - HRC60

The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, June 13, 2022.

September 19, 2025 Statement

New Treaty Should Combat Age Discrimination Against Older People in Employment

HRW Oral Statement - Item 3 General Debate - HRC60

September 19, 2025 Dispatches

US Judge Blocks Expulsion of Guatemalan Children

Trump Administration Attempted to Expel 76 Unaccompanied Children

Deported children, along with their parents, sit in a migration office after being processed by staff of the Guatemalan Immigration Institute after arriving on deportation flights from the United States and Mexico, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, January 23, 2024.

September 19, 2025 Dispatches

Protection of Athletes Advances in Japan

Japan Association of Athletics Federations Sets Out Human Rights Policies

Japanese high jumper Tomohiro Shinno participates in the 60th Palio Citta della Quercia, in Rovereto, Italy, September 3, 2024.

September 19, 2025 Dispatches

Immigration Detention Ends in Provincial Jails Across Canada

Ontario Last to Cancel; Ottawa Should Halt Expansion to Federal Prisons

This is a list with checkmarks next to the names of Canada's ten provinces to show their ending of immigration detention in jails. There is a question mark next to the word "Federal."

September 19, 2025 News Release

Kyrgyzstan: Media Workers Sentenced to Prison in Flawed Trial

Reverse Decision, Release Journalists, Allow Continued Independent Reporting

Kloop Media sign in the office of Kloop Media Public Foundation.

September 19, 2025 Dispatches

EU’s New India Strategy Overlooks Modi’s Repression

Persistent Silence, Lack of Scrutiny Encourage Further Abuses

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (center left) and the College of European Commissioners with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other Indian officials in New Delhi, February 27, 2025.

September 18, 2025 Commentary

Rights Should Guide Welfare ‘Reform’ Debate in Germany

Cuts Will Hurt Struggling Low-Income Households, Worsen Poverty

A single mother in low-wage work shows her monthly household budget to Human Rights Watch during an interview, Baden-Württemberg, February 2023.

September 18, 2025 Dispatches

New Research Details Hidden Health Risks of Methane Emissions 

EU Faces Trump Administration Pressure to Roll Back Regulations

A methane emissions event in Bakersfield, California, captured by the Methane Risk Map.

September 18, 2025 News Release

UK: Ombudsman Finds Flaws in Windrush Compensation Scheme

Authorities Should Compensate Private Pension Losses; Grant Free Legal Representation

Thomas Tobierre, 69, who applied to the Home Office’s Windrush Compensation Scheme as a primary applicant, says he realized that the scheme was set up to deny claimants their right to an effective remedy.

September 18, 2025 News Release

US: Maritime Strikes Amount to Extrajudicial Killings

Attacks on Alleged Drug-Smuggling Vessels Violate International Human Rights Law

A combination image shows two screen captures from a footage posted on the X account of The White House on September 15, 2025, of what US President Donald Trump said was a military strike on a Venezuelan drug cartel vessel, the second such strike carried out against an alleged drug boat in recent weeks.

September 18, 2025 News Release

El Salvador: Baseless Charges Against Rights Defenders

Activists Should be Immediately Released

Alejandro Henríquez, left, and José Ángel Pérez, right, speak with their lawyers before their first court hearing in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, May 30, 2025.

September 17, 2025 News Release

Brazil Passes Landmark Law to Protect Children Online

New Safeguards Will Require Online Service Providers to Ensure Young Users’ Data Privacy

The Brazilian Senate in Brasilia, February 1, 2021.

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