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Migrants at Miami-area detention centers have faced a variety of abuses, including being shackled and forced to eat food from ...
Human Rights Watch is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. HRW headquarters are in New York City with offices in Amsterdam, Beirut ...
Those detained were subjected to ‘dehumanizing’ treatment, overcrowding, poor medical care and lack of support despite ...
Human Rights Watch on Thursday criticised U.S. President Joe Biden and other Western leaders for a weak defense of democracy and for failing to meet challenges from the climate crisis and COVID-19 ...
The 61-page report, “A Hazard to Human Rights: Autonomous Weapons Systems and Digital Decision-Making,” finds that autonomous weapons, which select and apply force to targets based on sensor ...
Powerful exposés of human rights abuses, war and deforestation are being screened in New York City May 31-June 8, and available nationwide via streaming June 5-11.
See the film as Opening Night at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival from May 19-27, with live, free and globally accessible Q&A May 19 at 8:30pm EDT/ 5:30pm PST > https://bit.ly/3sejbr2.
Between 2009 and 2010, Human Rights Watch had a 15 percent loss in contributions and grants, the same year pro-Israel organizations criticized its Israel/Palestine coverage.
Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned by the lack of independence in the work of Rwanda’s National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR, or “the Commission”) and its failure to fulfil its ...
According to Human Rights Watch, that earned Roth many enemies over the years. “Despite being Jewish (and having a father who fled Nazi Germany as a 12-year-old boy), he has been attacked as a ...
T he charge that Human Rights Watch is hostile to Israel is hardly new. In 2009, Robert Bernstein , the former head of Random House, who founded HRW and served as its chair from 1978 to 1998 ...