August 27, 2020

(Beirut, August 28, 2020) – Local authorities in northern Syria have failed to advance efforts to find people kidnapped by ISIS more than a year after its territorial defeat in Syria, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should promptly dedicate resources to uncover what happened to the thousands of missing people.

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  • April 27, 2022 Audio
    Ahead of an informal United Nations meeting on accountability for serious crimes in Ukraine, HRW staffers discuss justice efforts for Ukraine.
    Women watch and embrace each other as bodies are exhumed from a mass grave by the authorities
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  • April 20, 2022 Video
    Human Rights Watch researchers who worked in Bucha from April 4 to 11, days after Russian forces withdrew from the area, found extensive evidence of summary executions, other unlawful killings, enforced disappearances, and torture, all of which would constitute war crimes, and potential crimes against humanity.
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  • April 5, 2022 Audio
    The International Criminal Court’s trial of Ali Kosheib, or Kushayb, will open on April 5, 2022, and offers the first opportunity to see a leader face prosecution for massive crimes committed in Darfur nearly 20 years ago. “Kosheib’s trial is a long-awaited chance for victims and communities terrorized by the notorious
    Ali Mohammed Ali, known as Ali Kosheib or Kushayb, in The Hague, Netherlands. during the opening of his confirmation hearing on charges for crimes in Darfur, Sudan.
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  • April 4, 2022 Audio
    Human Rights Watch has documented several cases of Russian military forces committing laws-of-war violations against civilians in occupied areas of Ukraine. The cases we have documented amount to unspeakable, deliberate cruelty and violence against Ukrainian civilians. European Media Director Andrew Stroehlein is joined by
    Destroyed armored vehicles on a road
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  • April 1, 2022 Video
    On March 31, as FIFA convened its 72nd Congress in Doha, one speaker took a brave stance on the uncomfortable truth about human rights realities in Qatar. Lise Klaveness, the Norwegian Football Association president, directly called out the past failures of FIFA to protect human rights in the context of selecting FIFA to host the 2022 World Cup. Using the imagery of “the beautiful game,” she noted how “Human rights, equality, democracy, the core interests of football, were not in the starting 11 until many years later. These basic rights were pressured on as substitutes, mainly by outside voices.”
    Lise Klaveness’s, The President of The Football Association of Norway after speech at the FIFA Congress
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