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February 21, 2025 Dispatches

What Policymakers Should Prioritize on Ukraine

Emphasize Civilian Protection, Justice

A woman collects wood for heating from a destroyed school where Russian forces were based in Izium, Ukraine, September 19, 2022.
January 29, 2025 Dispatches

Pause in US Funding Puts Ukraine Programs at Risk

Trump Administration Should Continue Funding While Reviewing Programs

Ukrainian rescuers stand next to the new equipment, which was provided by USAID, in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 17, 2023.
January 28, 2025 News Release

New Campaign Focuses on Russia-Ukraine Detainees

Negotiations Should Prioritize Freeing Civilians, Repatriation of POWs

Arbitrary arrests, torture, enforced disappearances, summary executions, and  cases of sexual violence by Russian occupation forces, including in the Chernihiv, Kharvivska, Kherson, and Kyiv regions. For example, during the occupation of Kherson and Zaporizka regions, Russian forces tortured people to extract information, instill fear, and coerce compliance with the occupation.
November 19, 2024 Dispatches

A Thousand Days of War in Ukraine

Civilians Need Greater Protection, Justice for Russia’s War Crimes

Firefighters extinguish a fire after a Russian attack on a neighborhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine, February 10, 2024.
October 30, 2024 News Release

Ukraine: New Law Raises Religious Freedom Concerns

Legitimate Security Concerns Not a Green Light to Infringe on Rights

Church in Ukriane
October 8, 2024 Commentary

Opinion: Silent victims of sexual violence, Ukraine’s male POWs deserve real support

Ukraine’s male POWs face an often overlooked, brutal reality of sexual violence in Russian custody — yet the system meant to help them heal falls tragically short.

September 9, 2024 News Release

Cluster Munitions: New Use, Transfers Test International Ban

Global Report Tracks Civilian Harm from Prohibited Weapon

Stockpiled cluster munitions and their submunitions being prepared for destruction.
September 5, 2024 Dispatches

Deadly Russian Attacks on Lviv’s Historic District

Civilians Killed, Schools Damaged in Western Ukrainian City

Lyceum No. 5 on Kokorudza Street in Lviv, Ukraine, damaged during a Russian air attack on September 4, 2024.
August 1, 2024 Commentary

Lithuania Leaving Cluster Munition Ban Undermines Agreement, Threatens Crucial Norms

Lithuania’s representative signing the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Oslo, Norway on December 3, 2008.
July 30, 2024 Commentary

US Sending Cluster Munitions to Ukraine via Germany

Photo shows stockpiles of 155mm cluster munition artillery projectiles.
July 8, 2024 Commentary

As Head of Democratic India, Modi Should Raise Abuses in Ukraine with Russia During Moscow Visit

Russia’s tactics mirror those of colonial armies, something that the prime minister of a country that bore the brunt of colonialism should speak up against.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greet each other before their meeting in New Delhi, India, December 6, 2021.
June 20, 2024 Witness

A Teacher’s Ordeal in Ukraine

During Occupation, He Was Tortured for Refusing to Hand Over School Documents

Vitaliy in his home
June 20, 2024 News Release

Ukraine: Forced Russified Education Under Occupation

Imposition of Russian Curriculum; Anti-Ukrainian Propaganda

Copies of textbooks arranged on a table
June 7, 2024 News Release

Ukraine: Recovery Conference Could Be Lifeline for Children

Support the Rights To Quality Education; to Live in a Family Setting

Rubble in a destroyed classroom
April 4, 2024 Commentary

US Cluster Munition Transfers Raise Humanitarian Concerns

Unexploded DPICM submunition found by Human Rights Watch researchers in a field north of Baghdad, Iraq, in May 2003.

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