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Iranian regime weaponizes judicial systems against Baha'i minority, Human Rights Watch claims

The Baha'i International Community reported that the occurance persecutory acts against Baha’i between July and November 2025 was three times higher than the same time period in 2024.

Members of the Baha'i faith hold flowers as they demonstrate outside a state security court during a hearing in the case of a fellow Baha'i man charged with seeking to establish a base for the community in Yemen, in the country's capital Sanaa April 3, 2016
Buildings and streets of Jenin refugee camp, November 19, 2025.

Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes in West Bank expulsions

A child sits holding a sponge at a car wash, amid ongoing fuel shortages caused by a blockade imposed by al Qaeda-linked insurgents in early September, in Bamako, Mali, October 31, 2025.

Mali army killed 31 villagers in attacks on insurgent area, HRW says

AN IDF APC enters Syria at the ceasefire line (illustrative).

HRW accuses Israel of war crimes in Syria over forced displacement


HRW demands Iran release California resident from prison

"My mother has not had a single night of sleep since her partner and love of her life was forcefully taken after 40 years of marriage."

Jamshid Sharmahd and his daughter, Gazelle.

Why Human Rights Watch's apartheid accusation is incorrect - opinion

The very essence of apartheid was the physical separation of people based on a legislated racial hierarchy.

Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth speaks during a interview with Reuters in Geneva, Switzerland, April 9, 2018

HRW exploits human tragedy to further its political agenda - opinion

HRW’s report is part of a concerted NGO campaign, as documented by NGO Monitor, to use the term “apartheid” in order to lobby the International Criminal Court to open an investigation against Israel.

Omar Shakir, a US citizen representing New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) in Israel and the Palestinian territories, speaks to Reuters TV in Amman, Jordan.

Human Rights Watch did a one-sided takedown of Israel - opinion

The report comes as Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza erect more barriers to peace with Israel, and as they themselves degrade the human rights of the Palestinian people.

PA PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a meeting in Ramallah last August.

Leading Jewish Republicans split over a Biden human rights nominee

Elliott Abrams, a longtime foreign policy maven with experience in a number of Republican administrations, has come to her defense.

Freedom House President Mark Lagon (R) testifies as Washington Director Human Rights Watch Sarah Margon (L) listens during Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on "Corruption, Global Magnitsky and Modern Slavery - A Review of Human Rights Around the World", on Capitol Hill in Washington, July

Delegitimizing Israel has become a mainstream pastime - opinion

The Human Rights Watch report accusing Israel of apartheid could have a negative impact on the Jewish state's international legacy.

Jose Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch Americas, holds up a report while addressing the media in Bogota

Human Rights Watch chairman invests in Israel as he calls it ‘apartheid’

Neil Rimer is a board member of Human Rights Watch, which recently accused Israel of apartheid.

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Israeli apartheid charge: Tool against oppression or existential threat?

SETTLEMENT AFFAIRS: "Saying Israel is an apartheid state means it is a crime against humanity, which means it has no right to be, and we have an obligation to make sure it has no right to be."

THE SECURITY BARRIER is seen in the background as a Palestinian protester walks with a placard depicting former South African president Nelson Mandela during a demonstration against settlements near the West Bank village of Bil’in in 2013.

Human Rights Watch really wants to push Israel and PA into one state

This attempt to shoehorn several different areas, run by three different authorities into one place is at the heart of new human rights reports about Israel.

Jose Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch Americas, holds up a report while addressing the media in Bogota

The HRW apartheid report: Does it matter? - analysis

It doesn't matter in the Western corridors of power, as they will see the report for what it is. But it does matter for influential young people who do not have a good grip on the subject.

OMAR SHAKIR, Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director, looks up before a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in September