The following input draws from our research on women’s prisons in Japan as well as Japan’s “hostage justice” system. Based on our research, we believe reforms are urgently needed in Japan to end the unnecessary and abusive imprisonment of women.
The North Korean government should urgently act on the recommendations from United Nations member states during the fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of North Korea’s human rights record at the UN Human Rights Council.
A federal jury in the US state of Virginia found defense contractor CACI Premier Technology, Inc. legally responsible for conspiring to torture and otherwise ill-treat three Iraqi men during their detention at Abu Ghraib prison two decades ago.
Human Rights Watch spoke at the Convention on Conventional Weapons Annual Meeting, encouraging states to pass a legally binding resolution on autonomous weapons systems.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International's written intervention to the UK High Court in the ongoing legal challenge by Al-Haq and the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) to the UK’s transfer of arms to Israel.
The Houthi authorities in Yemen have since mid-October submitted 12 individuals’ cases, including former US embassy and UN staff, to their Specialized Criminal Prosecution, accusing some of them with crimes that carry the death penalty while denying them due process.
European governments have yet to reckon with and meaningfully address the ongoing impacts of their colonial legacies affecting people of African descent on the African continent and in the diaspora, Human Rights Watch said today. November 15, 2024, is the 140th anniversary of the 1884 opening of the Berlin Africa Conference, at which 19 European countries and the US came together to organize and expand Europe’s colonial domination and exploitation across Africa.
