Human rights watch News

Maiduguri - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released satellite images which reveal extensive destruction of civilian property following a military raid on April 16 and 17 in the northern Nigerian town of Baga.

Athens - That’s the opinion of a United Nations expert who warned yesterday that some of the austerity measures imposed on the Greek economy undermine Greek citizens’ access to jobs, health, water and energy.

Ideologically driven hackers in the Syrian Electronic Army hacked the website and Twitter page of Human Rights Watch and posted condemnations and denunciations of the group for its activities and investigations and human rights violations in Syria.

A newly released Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, entitled "This Old Man Can Feed Us, You Will Marry Him:’ Child and Forced Marriage in South Sudan," calls on the government of South Sudan to adopt measures to protect girls from child marriage.

In 2010 the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) had documented 582 cases of missing or murdered indigenous females in Canada. These cases happened between the 1960s to 2010.

A U.S. based human rights organisation has accused Israel of breaching rules of war in 18 airstrikes that were carried out during the 8-day conflict in Gaza.

Little Rock - Hundreds of tenants who are unable to pay their rent are jailed each year under Arkansas' draconian 'failure-to-vacate' law.

A video of Syrian rebel soldiers beheading their unarmed civilian hostages has sent out shock waves, as a 12-year-old boy wielded the machete. Human Rights Watch have authenticated the video.

Another honor killing incident took place at Kearha village in the northern Indian province of Kaimur, situated at around 95 miles west of the state capital Patna.

Homs - Gunman kill four factory workers in the embattled city of Homs and injure some twenty others as the Syrian government is accused of using cluster bombs.