Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa, @HRW.org
Senior Fellow, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School
Counsel to Human Rights & Privatization Project, NYU Law
Bassam Khawaja
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Amnesty: The international community’s tacit or explicit support for Israeli crimes or their failure to stop them has emboldened the Israeli authorities to escalate a brutal campaign to forcibly displace Palestinians and expand its control in the West Bank www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
With all eyes on the finals, HRW found the NBA risks sportswashing the UAE’s egregious human rights record by expanding its financial partnership with its government: www.hrw.org/news/2026/06...
Bassam Khawaja
Bassam Khawaja
40 organizations condemn Tunisian authorities’ escalating and systematic campaign of intimidation, obstruction and retaliation against lawyers, judges, the Bar Association, magistrates’ associations and independent civil society organizations www.icj.org/internationa...
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Human Rights Watch is hiring a senior researcher on US criminal justice: job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk: the expansion of sanctions imposed by the U.S. against Cuba is causing widespread harm to the population and endangering lives www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
While widespread and abusive detention has become one of the Egypt's most pressing human rights and political issues, the authorities’ apparent response has been more detentions: www.hrw.org/news/2026/06...
HRW has prepared a briefing note on the human rights crisis in Tunisia ahead of the upcoming UN Human Rights Council, more here: www.hrw.org/news/2026/06...
HRW is hiring a Myanmar researcher based in Southeast Asia: job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...
The de facto Houthi authorities in Yemen should immediately and unconditionally release the dozens of staff from the United Nations and Yemeni and international civil society organizations who have been arbitrarily detained over the last two years www.hrw.org/news/2026/06...
The international community’s tacit or explicit support for Israeli crimes, including genocide and apartheid, or their failure to act resolutely to stop them has emboldened the Israeli authorities to ...
The new European Union Migration and Asylum Pact ushers in sweeping changes that undermine the right to asylum. HRW released a question-and-answer document that explains the key changes to EU asylum laws and procedures and the risks for people’s rights: www.hrw.org/news/2026/06...
Bassam Khawaja
The National Basketball Association (NBA) risks “sportswashing” the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) egregious human rights record by expanding its financial partnership with its government.
Five years after President Kais Saied seized extraordinary executive powers on July 25, 2021, Tunisia's human rights situation has deteriorated dramatically. What began as a slide back into authoritar...
GENEVA - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned on Monday that the expansion of sanctions imposed by the U.S. against Cuba is causing widespread harm to the population and endangerin...
The de facto Houthi authorities in Yemen should immediately and unconditionally release the dozens of staff from the United Nations and Yemeni and international civil society organizations who have be...
The new EU Migration and Asylum Pact ushers in sweeping changes that undermine the right to asylum, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch released a question-and-answer document that expla...
