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“We left because we live with no bomb shelter,” Yulia told Human Rights Watch.Just like her, close to 800,000 have fled Ukraine in search of safety, and over 100,000 have been internally displaced.

Thirty-eight governments have taken a significant step toward ensuring documentation of potential war crimes by asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to open an investigation in Ukraine, Human Rights Watch said today. On February 28, 2022, the ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, signaled his intention to seek to open a

Following the most recent corruption allegations against Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, Attorney General Consuelo Porras issued a new round of arrest warrants for anti-corruption prosecutors from her own office, which had been investigating the president and other high-level officials. Some are now behind bars. Many others have resigned or fled

The United States government should cripple Russia by inviting Russian graduates to take the jobs sought by U.S.graduates, say the pro-migration advocates at the libertarian website Reason.com.

The following is an excerpt from a longer piece offering perspectives from various authors on multiple fronts of United States foreign policy ahead of President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on March 1, 2022. By comparison with the dismal performance of former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden

Legislation aims to make “digital courtroom” a permanent fixture of UK justice. Some of the UK’s “temporary” measures intended to help “deal with the pandemic” are going to be added to future legislation and made permament laws by the spring of this year. Of course, the truth is that

(Brussels) – The European Commission’s new corporate due diligence proposal needs significant improvements to prevent and address human rights abuses and environmental harm, including in companies’ global supply chains, Human Rights Watch said today. The bill is under the scrutiny of the European Parliament and Council, as co-legislators are tasked

In December of last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced plans for an “international treaty on pandemic prevention and preparedness”. According to the Council of Europe’s website, an “intergovernmental negotiating body” has been formed, and will be holding its first meeting next week, on March 1st. The aim

Canada is effectively preventing a Canadian woman and a young Canadian child detained in northeast Syria from coming home for life-saving medical care despite a Canadian policy allowing them to do so, Human Rights Watch said today. That policy allows Canada to repatriate nationals held in northeast Syria as Islamic

Religious organizations across Canada urged the federal and provincial governments to get on a path toward abolishing immigration detention following a key interfaith gathering to discuss the issue yesterday. Religious communities have been at the forefront of welcoming refugees across Canada for decades. Despite their efforts, the Canadian government has

Iraqi authorities detained over 1,000 children, some as young as nine years old, last year on national security charges, primarily for suspected links with the Islamic State (ISIS), according to a new United Nations report. Although ISIS attacks have dropped considerably since the group lost most of its territory