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July 8, 2024 Commentary

As Head of Democratic India, Modi Should Raise Abuses in Ukraine with Russia During Moscow Visit

Russia’s tactics mirror those of colonial armies, something that the prime minister of a country that bore the brunt of colonialism should speak up against.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greet each other before their meeting in New Delhi, India, December 6, 2021.
June 20, 2024 Witness

A Teacher’s Ordeal in Ukraine

During Occupation, He Was Tortured for Refusing to Hand Over School Documents

Vitaliy in his home
June 20, 2024 News Release

Ukraine: Forced Russified Education Under Occupation

Imposition of Russian Curriculum; Anti-Ukrainian Propaganda

Copies of textbooks arranged on a table
June 7, 2024 News Release

Ukraine: Recovery Conference Could Be Lifeline for Children

Support the Rights To Quality Education; to Live in a Family Setting

Rubble in a destroyed classroom
April 4, 2024 Commentary

US Cluster Munition Transfers Raise Humanitarian Concerns

Unexploded DPICM submunition found by Human Rights Watch researchers in a field north of Baghdad, Iraq, in May 2003.
March 21, 2024 Dispatches

Drone Attack Collapses Odesa Residential Building

Explosive Weapon Kills 12, Including 5 Children in Ukrainian City

An apartment building heavily damaged during a Russian drone strike in Odesa, Ukraine March 2, 2024.
February 26, 2024 News Release

Russia: Sham Trial of Human Rights Leader Draws to a Close

Oleg Orlov Invokes Navalny in Closing Statement

Oleg Orlov reading Franz Kafka’s The Trial in a Moscow courtroom during his trial, February 2024.
February 8, 2024 News Release

Ukraine: New Findings on Russia’s Devastation of Mariupol

War Crimes Inquiry Needed into Massive Loss of Civilian Life, Infrastructure

A cyclist walks down a damaged road with destroyed buildings on either side
January 11, 2024 News Release

Russia: New Heights on Repression

No Space For Dissent, Opposition Pushed Into Exile or Behind Bars

Russia WR
December 20, 2023 News Release

Russia Forces Ukrainians in Occupied Areas into Military

Compelling Ukrainian Civilians to Serve in Russian Armed Forces a War Crime

Conscripts called up for military service in the Russian army line up in Simferopol, Crimea, before their deployment. April 25, 2023.
November 30, 2023 Letter

Letter by Human Rights Watch on Ukraine Rome Statute Ratification

Council conclusions on enlargement: Call on Ukraine to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

November 9, 2023 News Release

Ukraine: War’s Toll on Schools, Children’s Future

Damage from Military Use of Schools, Bombing, Shelling, Looting

The destroyed playground of a kindergarten
September 21, 2023 Letter

Letter to the Minister of Health of Ukraine: Access to Emergency Contraception

September 15, 2023

September 6, 2023 Dispatches

Russia Denies Its Widespread Use of Cluster Munitions

State-Controlled Media Outlets Reprise Role of Manipulating the Message

Remnants of dozens of Smerch and Uragan cluster munition rockets collected by Ukraine’s State Emergency Service from Kharkiv in April 2022.
August 21, 2023 Statement

Russia’s Deportation, Imprisonment of Ukrainian Rights Activist

Russia should free Iryna Danylovych

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