Tag: Human Rights Watch

Electoral process is undermined by systemic problems and rights abuses, Human Rights Watch says

Sedition, counterterrorism laws used to silence peaceful critics in India, Human Rights Watch says

Government statistics show that state security forces “killed 50 percent more people” from April to July than in the preceding four months

In a recorded address to the nation on August 31, President Duterte ordered the head of the customs bureau to “shoot and kill” drug smugglers

At least 62 human rights and civil society groups express their “grave concern" over "serious human rights violations” in the Philippines

Charge against free-speech activist and poet is latest example of Myanmar govt’s intolerance of critical speech, rights group says

As cases of Covid-19 breached the 160,000th mark, the death toll of “vigilante killings” in the country also rose

Autonomous weapon systems have potential to ‘increase the dehumanization of warfare,’ warns Holy See

Cambodian authorities faulted for harassing and forcibly dispersing family members protesting the detention of opposition political activists

Less flowery talk, more action needed from govt on improving human rights situation, Human Rights Watch says