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June 26, 2024 Report

Yemen: Houthis Disappear Dozens of UN, Civil Society Staff

Release Detainees; End Arbitrary Arrests and Enforced Disappearances

The UN special envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, meets with local officials in Taizz, Yemen, February 12, 2024.
June 21, 2024 Statement

Sudan: UN rights council should continue efforts to advance accountability for ongoing atrocities

Human Rights Watch Statement on the UN Human Rights Council 56th session Item 2: Interactive Dialogue on the oral update by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan

June 5, 2024 Witness

Children Are Among the Hardest Hit by Haiti’s Violence

Four Young People Share Their Stories

Inside the École Communautaire in the Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on May 9, 2024. The school was abandoned in late February 2024 as gang violence made safe access for students and teachers impossible.
May 30, 2024 Commentary

Denouncing the war is all very well – but the people of Gaza also need urgent medical care

Egypt and a few countries are doing all they can, but the wider international community must step up

Al-Arish General Hospital in north Sinai, which is treating some patients who were evacuated from Gaza C Milena, April 2024.
May 29, 2024 News Release

Ukraine: Russia’s Odesa Cluster Munition Attack Harms Civilians

Renewed Focus Needed on Treaty Ban

Odesa Legal Academy in flames after a Russian cluster munition attack, April 29, 2024.
May 28, 2024 Dispatches

Kenya-Led Security Mission Prepares for Deployment in Haiti

Transparency, Safeguards Needed to Uphold Human Rights

Supplies are offloaded from a U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo plane on the tarmac at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The plane was carrying supplies for the camp being built for Kenyan police officers who will lead a Multinational Security Support mission into Haiti, May 15, 2024.
May 23, 2024 News Release

Yemen: Houthi Landmines Claim Lives, Livelihoods

Cease Use of Banned Mines; Accelerate Demining Operations

Abdullah, 35, who lost both of his legs to a landmine while taking goats to graze, with his two children, Al-Shaqb, Yemen, April 27, 2024.
May 20, 2024 Commentary

The New Cycle of Atrocities in Darfur Must Be Stopped

As the RSF Closes in on El Fasher, There Must Be Urgent International Action

Sudanese girls who fled the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, walk beside makeshift shelters in Adre, Chad, July 29, 2023.
May 16, 2024 Statement

Oral Statement at the 79th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights

May 14, 2024 Report

Gaza: Israelis Attacking Known Aid Worker Locations

End Unlawful Attacks, Ensure Accountability

On April 1, 2024, an Israeli attack in Deir Al-Balah in Gaza on a convoy of three World Central Kitchen vehicles killed seven aid workers.
May 9, 2024 Q & A

Q&A: War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing in West Darfur

A man walks using crutches in a refugee camp
May 9, 2024 News Release

Sudan: Ethnic Cleansing in West Darfur

Thousands Killed, Half Million Remain Displaced

Burnt remains of a school
May 8, 2024 News Release

West Bank: Israeli Forces’ Unlawful Killings of Palestinians

Lethal Shootings Show Disregard for Legal Standards

Israeli forces enter the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus during a large-scale search-and-arrest operation on November 23, 2023. 
May 8, 2024 Q & A

Use of Force in the Occupied West Bank

Questions and Answers on the Applicable International Law

Israeli forces enter the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus during a large-scale search-and-arrest operation on November 23, 2023. 
May 7, 2024 News Release

Trinidad and Tobago: Bring Home Children, Women Held in Iraq

Boys Forcibly Separated from Mother Highlights Health Concerns

Women and children wait in a holding cell

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