Tag: Human Rights Watch

In an event on March 22, Mayor Duterte told drug users that if they “won’t stop” and “won’t leave” the city, “I will kill you”.

Human Rights Watch criticized democratic governments in Asia for their lack of action in championing human rights standards

Radio Free Asia reported in 2021 that between 400 and 500 mosques faced closure in Ningxia, which had 4,203 mosques as of 2014

Conde lambasted the infectivity of the law against enforced disappearances – the first in Asia – that Congress enacted in 2012.

Callamard said Uyghurs still enjoyed no freedom of movement, or religion or culture, or to “equality and non-discrimination.”

“Allegations of vote tampering, fraud, and improper counting” of the 2022 election raise questions about the credibility of incoming election

Bangladesh is home to about a million Rohingya, most of whom fled a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar

HRW called on Indonesia to take action to hold the Myanmar junta accountable for its failure to implement a regional five-point consensus

HRW’s World Report said government and military officials continue to accuse civil society groups of being supporters of communist insurgents

In its World Report 2023, HRW said the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has not ended the government’s “war on drugs”