Tag: HRW
The group known as GSIM killed at least 32 people, including three children, in attacks on January 27 in the villages of Ogota and Ouémbé. An extremist group linked to Al-Qaeda carried out massacres in two villages in central Mali in January, Human Rights Watch said in a report Wednesday, in an apparent war crime […]
Interviews with children who have been detained, video footage, and reports from lawyers reveal that Israeli security forces are using unnecessary force in arresting and detaining children, in some cases beating them, and holding them in unsafe and abusive conditions. Since October 2015, protests in the West Bank and Gaza have escalated, as has the […]
According to the report, US laws and practices violate internationally recognized human rights in incarceration, racial disparities, criminal justice, police killing of African Americans and foreign policy to name a few. “The United States locks up 2.37 million people, the largest reported incarcerated population in the world,” the report says, adding “about 12 million people […]
Syrian armed opposition groups, among them jihadists but also Western-backed rebels, have indiscriminately targeted civilians in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. In a new report, the New York-based group said it had documented dozens of opposition attacks against civilians in government-held parts of Syria (…) The report said […]
