Human Rights Watch – CHANGING TIMES

Human Rights Watch urges governments to meet their global responsibilities ‘not just when it suits their interests’

By Annette Gartland on January 12, 2023

The 2023 Human Rights Watch World Report, launched today (Thursday), examines the state of human rights in 102 countries and territories in 2022. Human Rights Watch (HRW) urges governments to meet their […]

Malaysia is intensifying its crackdown, says Human Rights Watch

By Annette Gartland on October 14, 2016

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released another damning report about Malaysia in which it says that the authorities’ abusive use of criminal laws to arrest, question, and prosecute people for peaceful expression […]

Malaysian government ‘creating a culture of fear’, says Human Rights Watch

By Annette Gartland on October 27, 2015

The Malaysian government has gone on a binge of prosecutions of critics and is using broad and vaguely worded laws to criminalise peaceful expression, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in a new […]