Human Rights Watch

Tigrayans are being targeted in a campaign of ethnic cleansing in part of Ethiopia's conflict-hit northern Tigray region, a joint investigation has found.
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Harrowing accounts are emerging of Malian troops and suspected Russian mercenaries allegedly executing about 300 people in central Mali.
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"I had told Dewa to defer his visit to Zimbabwe, but he insisted that he would come. He told me that he was in the southern region visiting other countries including Mozambique," Chamisa said. "He inquired why I was stopping him from coming…
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The East African country announced last month that it will require people to show vaccination certificates from December 21 to access government services, including hospitals, schools, tax and immigration offices.
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Human Rights Watch says the compulsory testing and expulsion of pregnant students has denied tens of thousands of girls their right to education.
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Eritrean forces shot dead hundreds of children and civilians in a November massacre in neighbouring Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray region, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday.
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Schools are "weapons of war" in a separatist insurgency in Cameroon's two Anglophone regions, but the massacre of eight young children in class last week brought a new level of horror.
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At least 180 bodies have been found in mass graves in northern Burkina Faso where soldiers are fighting jihadists, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report says.
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International advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday that it believed security forces in Burkina Faso had summarily executed 31 unarmed detainees earlier this month during operations against Islamist militants.
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Cameroon’s state security forces did not adequately protect civilians from the threats posed by separatists in the time leading up to the country's elections, and instead committed further abuses against the population, Human Rights Watch…
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