MAPUTO (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch accused Mozambique's government and foreign mining companies on Thursday of "serious shortcomings" in resettling communities to make way for coal mines, leaving thousands without proper homes, food or sources of income. Full story
KABUL (Reuters) - About 600 Afghan women and girls are behind bars for so-called moral crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, the highest number since the Taliban were toppled almost twelve years ago. Full story
About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital of Damascus. They grabbed a 24-year-old university student and drove off. Full story
Police in China frequently beat, torture and arbitrarily detain suspected sex workers, often with little or no evidence that they engaged in prostitution, a rights group said Tuesday in a report that called on the government to discipline abusive officers. Full story
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A video of a Syrian rebel commander cutting the heart out of a soldier and biting into is emblematic of a civil war that has rapidly descended into sectarian hatred and revenge killings, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. Full story
Government authorities should end the practice of placing juveniles' names on publicly accessible sex-offender registries, Human Rights Watch says in a report warning of lasting and unwarranted harm to some youths. Full story
Human Rights Watch alleges that Syria's air force is targeting the innocent, with one medical facility being hit eight times. ITV's Richard Pallot reports.
Cheif of Police, Tariq Al Hassan speaks during an interview with Reuters at the Ministry of Interior headquarters in Manama April 11, 2013. Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday that police had arrested 20 opposition activists in towns near Bahrain's Formula One circuit in a sign of rising political
A general view is seen of the building that houses the offices of Human Rights Watch in central Moscow March 27, 2013. Russian authorities searched the Moscow offices of Human Rights Watch and three other prominent advocacy groups on Wednesday, part of a wave of hundreds of inspections that activist
Rachel Denber, deputy director of the Europe and Central Asia Division of Human Rights Watch, speaks during a news conference in Moscow January 31, 2013. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
Director of Human Rights Watch's Americas division Jose Miguel Vivanco speaks to the media in Mexico City February 20, 2013. Human Rights Watch on Wednesday released a report alleging the involvement of Mexican security forces in the disappearances of 149 people during the administration of former p
