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Security forces in Qatar arbitrarily arrested and abused LGBT Qataris as recently as last month, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday, in the run-up to hosting soccer's World Cup which has put a spotlight on human rights…

NEW YORK: After three decades at the helm of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth has come to believe that governments are "always tempted" to violate citizens' rights. But as he prepares to stand down later this month, Roth also believes that…

NEW YORK: Cuba's government committed "systematic human rights violations" in response to last summer's unprecedented anti-government protests, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report Monday (Jul 11). The report, published on the first…

ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan's Taliban regime has been targeting civilians in the northern Panjshir province to get access to suspects it believes to be part of the National Resistance Force (NRF), the anti-Taliban military alliance comprising…

KABUL: The list of Taliban violations of the rights of women and girls is long and growing, said Heather Barr, Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch (HRW), as she raised growing concerns about the violation of the rights in the…

New Delhi: Educational apps and websites, run by government and private entities of 49 most populous countries, indulged in practices that put children’s privacy and safety at risk, international non-government organisation Human Rights…

Issued on: 03/05/2022 - 09:40 Human Rights Watch on Tuesday said there was "compelling evidence" that Russian paramilitary troops were committing serious rights abuses and…

Issued on: 09/02/2022 - 13:41 Tunisian authorities are using emergency laws to place people in "secret detention", Human Rights Watch said Wednesday, warning that the practice was…

KABUL: The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has denied a new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report which said that the fall of the country to the new regime has accelerated human rights crises and humanitarian catastrophe. In a statement on…

HRW urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to create an international inquiry into the abuses committed by warring parties in the expanded Tigray conflict.HRW said that on August 31, "Tigrayan forces entered the village of Chenna and…