Human Rights Watch

  Russia’s House of Parliament has voted for further restrictions and fines on members of the LGBTQ society in the country. One of the authors of the law was Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Rodin. He supports this, he says, in order to...

Armenia was rocked last week with the suicide of a young homosexual couple. On the evening of October 20th, the two young men jumped off the Davitashen Bridge in Yerevan, the capital, where both died. Before jumping to their death...

The international group Human Rights Watch on Tuesday sharply criticized the new asylum bill brought forward by Greece's new conservative government as it restricts legal protection only to individuals who are fleeing wars. “The bill is a naked attempt to...

The group "Human Rights Watch" accused Greek authorities on Tuesday of violently forcing back migrants who tried to illegally enter Greece from neighboring Turkey. The organization issued a statement urging Greece to investigate the allegations immediately, Human Rights Watch says...

This week the NPO Human Rights Watch (HRW) made statements criticizing the Greek authorities and bureaucracy in place that is responsible for detaining refugee children with mental and physical illnesses in the Aegean islands' camps, with no access to proper...

Greece's government has been accused of failing to honor a commitment to house refugee and migrant children without families in special shelters. Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday said a pledge by Athens to make sure no children were being...

Throughout 2017, NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has been very critical of the Greek government's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers on the island hotspots. Now in its annual report about the conditions of refugees in the EU, the group...

More than 13,500 asylum seekers remain trapped on the Greek islands in deplorable conditions as winter begins on December 21, 2017, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. Greece, with support from its European Union partners, should urgently transfer thousands of asylum...

Greek authorities are failing to provide adequate protection for women and girls living in government-run, European Union-sponsored facilities for asylum seekers, on the island of Lesvos, NGO Human Rights Watch said today. In November, 2017, Human Rights Watch interviewed 25 asylum-seeking...

Greece should not extradite, deport or otherwise facilitate the return of a Tajik opposition activist to Tajikistan; where he faces possible torture or ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. Mirzorakhim Kuzov; a senior leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan...