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Kenya: Factory Poisons Community
Thousands of people in a poor urban district outside Mombasa face serious health consequences from toxic lead from a battery recycling plant. The crisis is the result of the Kenyan government's fai... -
Confronting Evil: Genocide in Rwanda
Alison Des Forges was Human Rights Watch's senior advisor in the Africa Division and one of the world's foremost experts on Rwanda. In the period leading up to the genocide, she worked tirelessly t... -
Uganda: Rights at Risk in New Mining Region
Uganda's nascent mining industry could do more harm than good for indigenous people unless the government makes reforms and mining companies start respecting rights, Human Rights Watch said in a re... -
Zanele Muholi, Visual Activist
South Africa: Video Marks Campaign Against Gender Violence
Documents Award-Winning Photographer's Work
(Johannesburg, November 25, 2013) -- Human Rights Watch today issued a video showcasing the w...
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TORN APART: Fermina Lopez Cash
TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform
Fermina Lopez Cash, a 47-year-old woman from Guatemala, sits in her home with a photo of her 13-year-old son, Omar, who died in July 2010 in the Ariz... -
TORN APART: Maria Puga
TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform
In 2010, border guards beat and shocked Anastasio Hernandez Rojas with a stun gun at the San Ysidro port of entry near San Diego, California. He died... -
TORN APART: Marta Garcia
TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform
Marta Garcia left Mexico for the United States more than 20 years ago, settling in California with her husband and her three children, all US citizen... -
TORN APART: Sister Alma
TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform
Alma D. Isais Aguilar, a Catholic nun, works with the Kino Border Initiative, a group that provides food and shelter to migrants in the border town o...
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Pakistan: Rampant Killings of Shia by Extremists
Pakistan's government should take all necessary measures to stop Sunni extremist groups in Balochistan province from committing further killings and other abuses against Hazara and other Shia Musli... -
China: Address Enduring Legacy of Tiananmen Massacre
25 years after the Tiananmen Massacre of June 4, 1989, popular demands for accountability, the rule of law, freedom of expression, and other basic human rights in China have continued to grow. -
Japan: Children in Institutions Denied Family Life
Japan's overwhelming use of institutions instead of family-based care is failing thousands of vulnerable children by not preparing them for independent, productive lives in Japanese society. Accord... -
North Korea: Accounts from Camp Survivors
A new United Nations report has found that crimes against humanity are occurring in North Korea and calls for an international tribunal to investigate and hold perpetrators to account.
The report,...
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Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
Unguided Grad rockets launched apparently by Ukrainian government forces and pro-government militias have killed at least 16 civilians and wounded many more in insurgent-controlled areas of Donetsk... -
UK: Domestic Workers Trapped and Abused
UK: Migrant Domestic Workers Face Serious Abuse
UK Government Should Abolish 'Tied Visa' to Protect Workers, Prevent Forced Labor
(London, March 31, 2014) -- Migrant domestic workers accompanying ... -
Russia: Gay Men Beaten on Camera
(Moscow, February 4, 2014) -- The Russian authorities need to address a deteriorating situation of widespread and concerted abuse against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and ac...
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Kenya: Factory Poisons Community
Thousands of people in a poor urban district outside Mombasa face serious health consequences from toxic lead from a battery recycling plant. The crisis is the result of the Kenyan government's fai... -
Dirty Needles Spike AIDS Epidemic in New Orleans
Louisiana has an estimated 45,000 people who inject drugs, a quarter of them in New Orleans. Yet the city has few services, such as syringe exchanges, shown to reduce HIV and hepatitis infections a... -
Cambodia: Drug Centers Detain, Abuse 'Undesirables'
(Bangkok, December 9, 2013) -- Cambodian authorities unlawfully detain hundreds of drug users and others deemed "undesirable" in centers where they face torture, sexual violence, and forced labor, ... -
Zimbabwe: Water and Sanitation Crisis
(Harare, November 19, 2013) -- The water and sanitation crisis in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, places millions of residents at risk of waterborne disease. Five years after cholera killed over 4,000 ...
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Russia: Gay Men Beaten on Camera
(Moscow, February 4, 2014) -- The Russian authorities need to address a deteriorating situation of widespread and concerted abuse against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and ac... -
Kyrgyzstan: Police Torture Gay Men
(Bishkek, January 29, 2014) -- Police in Kyrgyzstan have extorted, threatened, arbitrarily detained, beaten and sexually abused gay and bisexual men. Although consensual sex between men was decrimi... -
Zanele Muholi, Visual Activist
South Africa: Video Marks Campaign Against Gender Violence
Documents Award-Winning Photographer's Work
(Johannesburg, November 25, 2013) -- Human Rights Watch today issued a video showcasing the w... -
South Africa: Archbishop Condemns Anti-LGBT Violence
Southern Africa's Anglican archbishop calls for an end to violence and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
"Respect the gift of difference," says Most Revd Dr. Th...
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Iraqi Government Air Strikes Killing Civilians
Iraq's security forces have killed at least 75 civilians and wounded hundreds of others in indiscriminate air strikes on four cities since June 6, 2014. Human Rights Watch documented 17 airstrikes,... -
Syria: Armed Groups Send Children into Battle
Non-state armed groups in Syria have used children as young as 15 to fight in battles, sometimes recruiting them under the guise of offering education, Human Rights Watch said in a report released ... -
UNDER KURDISH RULE IN SYRIA
Kurdish authorities running three enclaves in northern Syria have committed arbitrary arrests, due process violations, and failed to address unsolved killings and disappearances. The Democratic Uni... -
US: Send Detainees Home to Yemen
April 7, 2014 (Washington, DC) -- The US should expedite the return of Yemeni detainees cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to President Barack Obama....
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TORN APART: Robin Reineke
TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform
Robin Reineke, director of the Colibrí Center for Human Rights, holds the personal effects of unidentified border crossers. Such personal effects are... -
TORN APART: Angie and Peter Kim
TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform
Angie and Peter Kim came to the United States from South Korea with their parents when they were 9 and 7 years old respectively. According to them, t... -
TORN APART: Alina Diaz
TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform
Alina Diaz, a farmworker advocate, with Lidia Franco, Gisela Castillo and Marilu Nava-Cervantes, members of the Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, a nat... -
FBI Entraps Americans in Terrorism Sting Operations
The US Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have targeted American Muslims in abusive counterterrorism "sting operations" based on religious and ethnic identity. Many of...