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Years-long travel bans and asset freezes against some of Egypt's most prominent activists are being used to muzzle civil society and are exacting lasting damage on the personal lives of those targeted, according to two reports by human rights groups.

Calls for independent investigation grow as officials report 18 killed and 243 wounded in unrest in autonomous region.

Human Rights Watch described Gaza as an "open-air prison" 15 years after Israel imposed a siege on in wake of the Hamas takeover of the coastal enclave. "Israel’s sweeping restrictions on leaving Gaza deprive its more than two million residents of opportunities to better their lives," HRW said. "Israel should…

Human Rights Watch says that Taliban security forces in northern Afghanistan have unlawfully detained and tortured residents accused of association with an opposition armed group

Schools’ use of educational technologies (edtech) grew exponentially at the height of COVID lockdowns. A recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has exposed children’s rights violations by providers of edtech endorsed by governments in Australia and overseas.

The Wagner Group, a private Russian military security contractor, has used banned landmines and booby traps near Tripoli, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday. “New information from Libyan agencies and demining groups links the Wagner Group to the use of banned landmines and booby traps in Libya in 2019-2020,”…

Lama Fakih, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said the Wagner Group added to the “deadly legacy” of mines and booby traps scattered across Tripoli’s suburbs

Human Rights Watch has called for the International Criminal Court to investigate allegations of the use of landmines in 2019 by Russian paramilitaries fighting in Libya

An international rights group says that Bulgarian authorities are attacking Afghan and other asylum-seekers, using police dogs and other violence to illegally push them back over the border into Turkey