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An elite Bangladesh police unit is engaged in the rampant extortion, harassment and wrongful arrests of the Rohingya refugees it has been tasked with protecting, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

Human Rights Watch has called on the ICC to ban Afghanistan from international cricket in the wake of Cricket Australia's stance on the Taliban-led country.

In 2022, Indian authorities “intensified and broadened their crackdown on activist groups and the media”, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023, an annual review of human rights around the globe. To silence activists and independent journalists, authorities used “politically motivated criminal charges, including terrorism, to jail…

Human Rights Watch warns UK has ‘very short window’ to reverse legislation, including restrictions on the right to protest

FRANCE 24 spoke to Tirana Hassan, acting executive director of Human Rights Watch, which is publishing its annual report this week. Although the report reveals the grim picture of a world shattered by multiple crises, our guest believes the attacks carried out against democratic institutions, such as in Brazil, show…

President Tayyip Erdogan's government has cracked down more aggressively on dissent and political opponents ahead of Turkish elections with censorship and prison sentences, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.

Human Rights Watch on Thursday hailed the international response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, urging governments to show the same concern for civilians caught up in other conflicts. "Amongst the fog of war and the darkness that we have seen in this war in Ukraine, there has been a shining…

Watchdog praises protests in China and Iran and international response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in annual report on the state of human rights

Human Rights Watch calls on government to address its own ‘alarming deficiencies’, including detention of children under 14 and treatment of asylum seekers

A leading rights group says widespread opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine demonstrates the power of a unified response against human rights abuses

Human Rights Watch highlights more Indigenous Australians died in custody last year than in 2021, and that new laws targeting climate protesters resulted in harsher penalties against activists.