Human Rights Watch found that Burkina Faso's military is committing atrocities, including the ethnic cleansing of Fulani civilians, which amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Shakir said the report documented how the denial of return amounts to a crime against humanity. He said he had been told that Executive Director Philippe Bolopion, who took the helm of HRW late last year, was worried the report would be misread by detractors as a call to demographically extinguish the Jewishness of the Israeli state, according to his resignation letter seen by Al Jazeera and dated January 15.
Russian authorities have outlawed Human Rights Watch as an undesirable organisation, a label that, under a 2015 law, makes involvement with it a criminal offence. Friday's designation means the international human rights group must stop all work in Russia, and opens those who cooperate with or support the organisation to prosecution. list of 4 itemsend of list HRW has repeatedly accused Russia of suppressing dissenters and committing war crimes during its ongoing war against Ukraine.
Comedians looking to donate their fee from the Riyadh Comedy Festival, look elsewhere. A spokesperson for Human Rights Watch told it "cannot accept" money from comedians who have "generously offered to donate part of their performance fees." According to Arvind Ganesan, Human Rights Watch's head of economic justice and rights division, taking money from people who took money from the government of Saudi Arabia could "create the perception that somehow we compromised our independence after the fact."