In October, Al Jazeera English’s bureau chief in Gaza وائل الدحدوح Wael Al dahdouh lost his wife, son, daughter and grandson in an Israeli airstrike A few months later, his 27-year-old son Hamza – also a journalist – would be killed while reporting in Gaza … thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2024-01-1…

Highest death toll in 9 years... UNHCR Asia Pacific says 569 Rohingya have perished or gone missing last year in South-East Asian waters in the past year, with nearly 4,500 embarking on deadly sea journeys – a significant increase on previous years. unhcr.org/us/news/briefi…

#India: Nearly 1000 men, women & kids are trapped in Asha Kiran, most of whom will live there for life. Some are confined to a bed with limited to no activity & are at risk of irreversibly stunted physical, intellectual, emotional & social development. hrw.org/news/2024/01/2…

🚨 DEADLINE APPROACHING 🚨 The Human Rights Press Awards recognize the best human rights reporting in Asia. This year, HRW, The Reynolds Center for Business Journalism/Cronkite School, Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club (TFCC), and FCCThai are administering the awards -- submit by February 5! ⤵️ ⤵️ bit.ly/3vIny4Z

The international community should recognize that the fight Afghan women and girls are in right now is a fight for the rights of women and girls everywhere. We should stand with them as if their fate helps determine our own—because it does. gjia.georgetown.edu/2024/02/06/the…

According to the United Nations, in 2024, 23.7 million people – more than half of the country's population – will need humanitarian assistance. The statistics are startling: 69 percent of people do not have enough food. hrw.org/news/2024/03/1…

I wrote about the terrifying loss of freedom in #HongKong, drawing parallels to Xinjiang & asks the world not to look away. Read on The New York Times: nytimes.com/2024/03/26/opi…

During a Diet session last week, Japan’s Ministry of Justice announced it had broadened a directive initially sent to all penal institutions in 2014 that effectively bans the use of restraints on imprisoned pregnant women inside delivery rooms. hrw.org/news/2024/03/2…

“Let me tell you their family names because they are not just stats.” - Ahmed Benchemsi on Human Rights Watch’s new report about one of the single deadliest Israeli strikes in #Gaza. We identified the names of 106 civilians killed in the attack, including 54 children. hrw.org/news/2024/04/0…

Like father, like son. The mayor of Davao City in the Philippines, Sebastian Duterte, declared a new “war on drugs" & local authorities killed 5 people in the 24 hours after he made the declaration & at least 7 within a matter of days. New from Human Rights Watch hrw.org/news/2024/04/0…

Defying the facts, the UK parliament has passed a law declaring Rwanda "safe" so it can send asylum seekers there. This law violates asylum seekers' human rights.

It is a dark day in the #UK after the #RwandaBill was passed. It will have a devastating impact on human rights & the rule of law, risking the lives of asylum seekers & setting a dangerous global precedent. New from Yasmine Ahmed & me ⬇️ Human Rights Watch hrw.org/news/2024/04/2…

The Australian government should withdraw a proposed law that would allow the authorities to seek prison terms for asylum seekers for exercising their right not to be sent to a country where they fear being persecuted. @annabelhennessy @HRW Daniela Gavshon hrw.org/news/2024/04/2…

NDIS bill in parliament right now reproduces critical elements of failed scheme re-draft pushed by the Coalition in 2021 which never made it into law. Those sections, increasing compliance on participants, were co-drafted by an architect of Robodebt. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2024/06/0…

Released today: Human Rights Watch report on criminalization of unhoused people in Los Angeles. A massive study on LA’s cruel, ineffective treatment of people living on the streets hrw.org/report/2024/08…

🇦🇺Australia's Children's Commissioner proposes 24-point plan to reform the child justice & wellbeing systems. 1️⃣Federal & state taskforce to develop 10-year reform roadmap 2️⃣A cabinet minister for children 3️⃣A National Children’s Act incorporating the UN's #ChildRights Convention

🚨Today at Drop Site we're publishing some truly unbelievable audio we've put to animation. A man in Pakistan was abducted by half a dozen men in black and taken to a jail cell. The man's brother, who lives overseas, then got a phone call from his brother's phone. It was

Tiny, positive news: As a result of our work, 720 Australian + Brazilian children are better protected from AI misuse. But we have a long, long way to go to protect all kids, everywhere. hrw.org/news/2024/09/0…

Last week, a 17-year-old died by self-harm in his detention cell in Western Australia--the 2nd such death in a year. Says Human Rights Watch's Annabel Hennessy: WA should prohibit solitary confinement for kids & invest in detention alternatives that uphold #ChildRights hrw.org/news/2024/09/0…

New report by Human Rights Watch documents Indonesian govt’s suppression of #PapuanLivesMatter protests after a 2019 attack on Papuan students. The protests highlighted longstanding racial discrimination against Indigenous Papuans hrw.org/report/2024/09…