Restrict Powers, Free Detainees, Hold Violators to Account South Sudan’s National Assembly should urgently enact reforms of the National Security Service (NSS) to end arbitrary detention and abuse of...
Renews Arms Embargo, Asset Freeze Against State-Owned Military Company Dewa Mavhinga Director, Southern Africa The European Union yesterday called on the Zimbabwe government to ensure perpetrators of...
New Naval Mission Designed to Avoid Sea Rescues Judith Sunderland Associate Director, Europe and Central Asia Division It is a craven, indefensible choice. Yesterday, European Union foreign ministers...
Rajapaksa Government Should Uphold Commitments to UN Rights Council (New York) – Sri Lankan security forces and intelligence agencies have intensified surveillance and threats against families of...
End Arbitrary Detention, Ill-Treatment (Nairobi) – The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child’s call for Rwanda to take “urgent measures” to end abuse of street children should be...
Authorities Should Ensure Safety of All Refugees Brad Adams Asia Director Taher, a Rohingya Christian pastor, and his 14-year-old daughter were abducted from their shelter in a refugee camp in...
JOINT STATEMENT BY 29 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS We, the 29 undersigned organizations, call on the Government of Myanmar to immediately lift restrictions on mobile...
Stop Use; Secure and Destroy Stocks (Beirut) – Forces affiliated with the Libyan National Army (LNA) used cluster munitions in a residential area in Tripoli on December 2, 2019, Human Rights Watch...
No Political Will to Prosecute Powerful Perpetrators (New York) – Two recent cases in Afghanistan highlight the failure of authorities to prosecute sexual assault implicating powerful people, Human...
Ex-President Bashir May Finally Face Trial for Alleged Darfur Crimes (Khartoum) – Sudan’s leaders say that they will cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which could mean that...