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‘Dad, I’m in Taiz’: A missing boy’s call from Yemen’s front lines

A 14-year-old who disappeared while buying groceries resurfaced 40 days later, telling his father he had joined the Houthis, as families across Yemen describe similar disappearances.

A woman and a boy walk on garbage on a roadside in the southwestern city of Taiz, Yemen October 31, 2026.
Women walk past a mural with the slogan "no to violence" (against women) drawn on the walls of a school in Syria's northern city of Manbij on December 21, 2024.

Syrian university restriction on female enrollment deepens concerns over women’s rights

Iranian ballistic cluster munitions are fired towards Tel Aviv on March 27, 2026 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Hezbollah’s use of cluster munitions against Israel may be war crime, HRW says in rare condemnation

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New Turkish law allows children to be sentenced to life in prison outrages human rights groups


Human Rights Watch staff targeted using Israeli NSO spyware

“Governments are using NSO Group’s spyware to monitor and silence human rights defenders, journalists and others who expose abuse,” said Deborah Brown, senior digital rights researcher at HRW.

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Biden criticized for weak defense of democracy by Human Rights Watch

Roth also said that during key summits Biden "seemed to lose his voice when it came to the public denunciation of serious human rights violations."

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the Statuary Hall of the US Capitol during a ceremony on the first anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., US, January 6, 2022.

Letters to the Editor December 27, 2021: Shocking atrocity

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

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Human Rights Watch's 'apartheid' claims outrageous - editorial

Forget Turkey and the Kurds, forget Belarus and the refugees, forget the massacres in Ethiopia or the abuses in Mali. For HRW, it’s all about Israel.

Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth speaks during a interview with Reuters in Geneva, Switzerland, April 9, 2018

‘Israeli apartheid’ top human rights issue of 2021 - HRW

The NGO's report on Israel’s conduct ranked higher than those on topics including sexual violence in India, extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, digital sex crimes in South Korea and more

Pro-Palestine protesters hold a banner, as they demonstrate outside Downing Street in London, Britain, June 12, 2021.

HRW: Facebook censors Palestinian posts on Israeli human rights abuses

Human Rights Watch also claimed Facebook designating Hamas and PFLP as "dangerous organizations" is a threat to free expression.

 A Facebook logo is displayed on a smartphone in this illustration taken January 6, 2020

HRW: Gaza rockets killed Palestinians, Israelis in 'flagrant' war crimes

Human Rights Watch recommended that the ICC and UNHRC examine unlawful attacks committed by Palestinian armed groups.

Rockets are launched by Palestinian militants into Israel amid Jerusalem's tension, in Gaza May 10, 2021.

HRW concludes some officials saw risk of Beirut blast, failed to act

The 700-page report by the international rights watchdog on the August 4th Beirut explosion concluded that multiple Lebanese authorities were criminally negligent under Lebanese law.

Damaged Beirut Port area, August 17

HRW director accused of justifying antisemitism on Twitter

Ken Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, shared a report on the spike in antisemitism in the UK.

Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth speaks during a interview with Reuters in Geneva, Switzerland, April 9, 2018

HRW demands Iran release California resident from prison

"My mother has not had a single night of sleep since her partner and love of her life was forcefully taken after 40 years of marriage."

Jamshid Sharmahd and his daughter, Gazelle.