Russian Human Rights Defender Convicted for “Discrediting” the Armed Forces October 11, 2023 10:46AM EDT | Dispatches Today, a Moscow court found Oleg Orlov, a leading Russian human rights defender, guilty on charges of “discrediting” the military by speaking out against the war in Ukraine. He was sentenced to a […]
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Lebanon’s Education Under Threat: Clashes Endangering Children’s Future
Clashes in Lebanon Risk Disrupting Education for Thousands of Children The Impact of Violence on Education The recent violent clashes in Ain el-Helweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, have had a devastating impact on the education of thousands of children. Since armed factions occupied all eight schools in […]
The Dangerous Threat of Censorship in US Schools: A Violation of Basic Human Rights
The recent efforts by US states to ban school curricula offering historically accurate accounts of racism in the United States have been condemned as attacks on fundamental human rights. Human Rights Watch, together with Black-led US civil rights organizations and scores of other organizations and individuals, has endorsed the Freedom […]
China’s Phone Search Program: An Alarming Threat to Uyghur Rights.
China‘s Xinjiang region has again come under scrutiny as Human Rights Watch warns that police there are relying on a ‘master list’ of 50,000 multimedia files that they deem ‘violent and terrorist’ to flag Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim residents for interrogation. Human Rights Watch’s forensic investigation into the metadata […]