Human Rights Watch

Handout image from Yemen’s Houthi media shows the Liberia-flagged Magic Seas sinking, July 8, 2025. (AFP)

Middle East

HRW: Houthi Attacks on Cargo Ships Apparent War Crimes

The map of Iraq. (Photo: AP)

Iraq

HRW accuses Iraq of increasing 'unlawful executions'

Women protesting against child marriage in Iraq. (Photo: Kurdistan24)

Iraq

Human Rights Watch warns of rising child marriages in Iraq amid controversial legal reforms

The Alo Antar pit in Tal Afar where the mass grave has been exhumed. (Photo: Kurdistan24)

Iraq

HRW: Mass Graves in Iraq Hold Remains of Hundreds of Thousands, Urges Increased Efforts for Justice

A boy walks on a road at the Mamrashan camp for civilians displaced by war, located a half hour's drive from Kurdistan Region's Duhok, Jan. 14, 2017. (Photo: Alice Martins/AP)

Iraq

HRW slams Iraqi government’s lack of compensation for Yezidi survivors

Hundreds of ISIS prisoners surrender to the SDF forces in Hasakah (Photo: SDF Media Centre)

Syria

Countries need to bring home ISIS foreign nationals in northeast Syria: HRW

Families wait for food distribution at the Hasansham camp for internally displaced people in the Kurdistan Region, Dec. 10, 2020 (Photo: Florent Vergnes/AFP)

Iraq

Iraqis with suspected ISIS ties deprived of basic services following camp closures, rights watchdog says

Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, MP for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party in Turkey. (Photo: social media)

Kurdistan

Human Rights Watch urges Turkey not to expel pro-Kurdish parliamentarian

HRW calls for investigation into death of Kurd allegedly thrown from Turkish helicopter

middle east

HRW calls for investigation into death of Kurd allegedly thrown from Turkish helicopter

HRW calls on nations to end military aid to Iraq amid violent protests

middle east

HRW calls on nations to end military aid to Iraq amid violent protests

HRW: Iraqi forces disappeared dozens of mostly Sunni Arabs since 2014

middle east

HRW: Iraqi forces disappeared dozens of mostly Sunni Arabs since 2014

US-trained Iraqi forces responsible for war crimes: HRW

middle east

US-trained Iraqi forces responsible for war crimes: HRW

Site where Iraqi forces executed civilians discovered in Mosul

middle east

Site where Iraqi forces executed civilians discovered in Mosul

HRW warns against ‘illegal executions’ by security forces in Mosul

middle east

HRW warns against ‘illegal executions’ by security forces in Mosul

KRG: IS cause of destruction of houses in liberated area

kurdistan

KRG: IS cause of destruction of houses in liberated area

KRG: HRW's recent report politicized

kurdistan

KRG: HRW's recent report politicized