Human Rights Watch
Bangladesh Shutters Dozens of Schools Set Up by Rohingya in Camps
KUTUPALONG CAMP, Bangladesh — Every morning, Mohammad Reyaz, a sixth grader, appears in uniform outside his school for Rohingya refugees in the Cox’s Bazar area of Bangladesh. And every morning, he returns home with a sullen face after finding its gate locked. Bangladeshi authorities shut the school down last month. It is one of more […]
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To Push Back Russians, Ukrainians Hit a Village With Cluster Munitions
HUSARIVKA, Ukraine — It was in early March when the spent warhead of a cluster munition rocket landed next to Yurii Doroshenko’s home in eastern Ukraine, having dispensed its lethal bomblets over his village. “They were shelling and it hit the street,” he said. These types of internationally banned weapons have been repeatedly used by […]
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Imran Khan, Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Fights for Survival
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan is fighting for his political survival after opposition political parties have moved for a no-confidence motion in Parliament and the country’s powerful military has withdrawn its support for his government. Mr. Khan, the former cricket-star-turned-politician, has announced plans to gather a million supporters in Islamabad, appealed […]
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Kuwait Overturns Law Used to Prosecute Trans People
CAIRO — Kuwait’s constitutional court overturned a law on Wednesday that authorities had used to prosecute transgender people, saying the statute violated Kuwaitis’ right to personal freedom. Activists hailed the decision as a landmark for transgender rights in the Middle East. The law, known as Article 198, had criminalized “imitation of the opposite sex,” giving […]
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In Kazakh Uprising, Reports of Widespread Abuses by Security Forces
ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Around 7:30 p.m. on the evening of Jan. 6, Yerlan Zhagiparov left his home to see what was happening nearby at the city’s Republic Square, a center of mass political protests. At 7:54 p.m., Mr. Zhagiparov, 49, called a close friend to say he had been apprehended by the National Guard. The […]
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As U.S. Strikes Syria Prison Held by ISIS, Young Detainees Are Caught in Crossfire
BAGHDAD — An American-backed militia that has waged four days of deadly battles to dislodge Islamic State fighters from a prison in northeast Syria warned on Sunday that the jihadists were using more than 600 boys detained in the complex as “human shields.” The United States has dispatched attack helicopters and carried out airstrikes on […]
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