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FILE - A mural reading "Stay vigilant and mobilised" is seen in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Wednesday March 1, 2023. (AP Photo, File)

Burkina Faso put civilians at ‘unnecessary risk’ during militant attack, rights group says

By Mark Banchereau - Associated Press

FILE - Migrants aboard a Cyprus marine police patrol boat as they're brought to a harbor after being rescued from their own vessel off the Mediterranean island nation's southeastern coast of Protaras, Cyprus, on Jan. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Rights group alleges Lebanon and Cyprus violated refugees’ human rights and EU funds paid for it

By Abby Sewell - Associated Press

Protesters clash with police during demonstrations against the official election results declaring President Nicolas Maduro's reelection, the day after the vote in Caracas, Venezuela, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Human rights group implicates Venezuelan security forces in killings during post-election protests

By Regina Garcia Cano - Associated Press

FILE - Thai rescuers cover a body on the shore of the Mekong River in Nakhon Phanom province northeast of Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday Dec. 27, 2018. DNA tests show that two bodies found washed up on the shore of Thailand's Mekong River are the corpses of anti-government activists, police said Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, in what are feared to be political killings. A leading international human rights organization on Thursday, May 16, 2024, criticized the Thai government for helping its authoritarian neighbors by expelling political dissidents who fled to Thailand for safety and forcing them to return to their home countries. (AP Photo, File)

Human rights group urges Thailand to stop forcing dissidents to return home

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

FILE - Haitian migrants wade through water as they cross the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the United States, May 9, 2023. Colombia and Panama are failing to protect hundreds of thousands of migrants who are crossing the Darien jungle on their way to the U.S. and have become increasingly vulnerable to robberies and sexual violence, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Wednesday, April 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

Panama and Colombia fail to protect migrants on Darien jungle route, Human Rights Watch says

By Manuel Rueda - Associated Press

Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 19, 2021. Human Rights Watch said Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, that Afghanistan’s public health system has been hit hard following a sharp reduction in foreign assistance, coupled with serious Taliban abuses against women and girls, jeopardizing the right to healthcare of millions of Afghans. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Foreign aid drops sharply as Taliban abuses jeopardize the Afghan health system, group says

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Demonstrators participate in a protest against the Israel-Hamas war during the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Here’s why the UAE, the autocratic COP28 host, has to allow limited protests at the summit

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Demonstrators run past tires set on fire during a protest against insecurity in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Rights group urges rapid international intervention to end spiraling gang violence in Haiti

By Dánica Coto - Associated Press

Brazil's Rafaelle, left, and Zambia's Babra Banda battle for the ball during a women's soccer match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Saitama, Japan. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

A player’s mistreatment exposes flawed sex eligibility rules used by FIFA at Women’s World Cup

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Khin Maung Zaw, center, a lawyer assigned by the National League for Democracy party to represent deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, speaks to journalists outside the Zabuthiri Township Court in Naypyitaw, on March 1, 2021. A leading human rights organizations has charged that lawyers representing opponents and critics of Myanmar’s military government face harassment and attacks, ranging from threats and arrests to unfair trials and even torture. Human Rights Watch says such actions reflected a broader attack on the country’s justice system. (AP Photo)

Rights group says Myanmar’s military rulers have cracked down on lawyers, abused legal system

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Demonstrators sing the national anthem during a protest in Odessa, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022. The widespread resolve against Russia's invasion of Ukraine demonstrates the power of a unified response against human rights abuses, a leading watchdog group said Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, and comes amid growing dissatisfaction with autocratic regimes, with protests in Iran, China and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Rights group: Litany of crises in 2022 but also good signs

By Edna Tarigan and David Rising - Associated Press

A man cycles through a courtyard of the destroyed School Number 23 after a Russian attack occurred in the second half of July, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) **FILE**

Forcible transfer of Ukrainians to Russia is abuse, human rights group says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 11, 2022. After rebuffing U.S. requests for months, Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu spoke with Austin on May 13. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Rights group slams Pentagon review of fatal Syria airstrike

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Riot police put out a petrol bomb hurdled during clashes with anti-government demonstrators protesting against the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifying soccer match between Argentina and Colombia near the Metropolitano stadium in Barranquilla, Colombia, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Jairo Cassiani)

Rights group: Colombian police cause deaths of 20 protesters

By Astrid Suarez - Associated Press

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Human Rights Watch crosses the line with latest attack on Israel

By Clifford D. May

FILE - This June 30, 2020, file photo, shows a view of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Efrayim in the Jordan Valley. One of the world's best-known human rights groups says Israel is guilty of the international crimes of apartheid and persecution. Human Rights Watch cites discriminatory policies toward Palestinians within Israel's own borders and in the occupied territories. In so doing, the New York-based group joins a growing number of commentators and rights groups that consider Israel and the territories as a single entity in which Palestinians are denied basic rights that are granted to Jews. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Global rights group accuses Israel of apartheid, persecution

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Rights group cites abuses by Venezuelan forces near Colombia

By REGINA GARCIA CANO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, a guard tower and barbed wire fences surround an internment facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. A spokesperson for the Xinjiang region called accusations of genocide &quot;totally groundless&quot; as the British parliament approved a motion Thursday, April 22, 2021 that said China's policies amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Chinese official in Xinjiang slams UK genocide declaration

By KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 19, 2021, file photo, residents wearing masks ride pass government propaganda with slogans some of which read &quot;Forever follow the Party&quot; and &quot;China's Ethnicities One Family&quot; in the city of Aksu in western China's Xinjiang region. A human rights group appealed to the United Nations on Monday, April 19, 2021 to investigate allegations China's government is committing crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang region. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Group urges UN to probe China for crimes against humanity

By KEN MORITSUGU - Associated Press

Community leader Luz Nelly Santana, right, meets with other leaders who like her have received death threats in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. “I get death threats on the phone every month,&quot; Santana said, &quot;and once a man entered my office and said he was going to kill me.” (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Report: Colombia failing to protect human rights defenders

By REGINA GARCIA CANO - Associated Press