Human rights watch

Shantha Rau Barriga is Founding Director of the disability rights division at Human Rights Watch. She is Founder member of the Internatio...Read More

New York: Pakistan is failing to educate a huge proportion of the country’s girls due to the government’s under-investment in schools, pr...Read More

United Nations, Myanmar troops gang-raped countless Rohingya women and girls during a military campaign that sent hundreds of thousands f...Read More

Nay Pyi Taw: The Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday said nearly 300 Rohingya villages have been torched in Myanmar since the current spa...Read More

Beijing: China has banned dozens of Islamic names like ‘Saddam’ and ‘Jihad’ for babies belonging to the  restive Muslim-majority Xinjiang...Read More

Geneva [Switzerland]: Baloch Republican Party chief Brahamdagh Bugti said Tuesday that presently there is a war like situation in Balochi...Read More

New York: Afghanistan should immediately halt further executions and impose a moratorium on death penalty, Human Rights Watch said on Tue...Read More

New York: Nepal should ensure that investigations into all deaths and injuries during the protests in the southern Terai region are fast ...Read More

Hanoi: Around 450 Vietnamese drug addicts have escaped from a rehabilitation centre where many were held for compulsory treatment, an off...Read More

Dubai: Human Rights Watch said today that bombs supplied by the United States were used in Saudi-led air strikes on a market in Yemen tha...Read More

Nairobi: At least 75 people have been killed during weeks of protests in Ethiopia which have seen soldiers and police firing on demonstra...Read More

New York: Pakistan’s government should immediately halt executions, reinstate the moratorium on the death penalty, and move toward abolit...Read More

New York: With no end in sight to politically motivated violence and other abuses in Bangladesh, authorities need to ensure their respons...Read More