World Report Chapter
January 19, 2022 Video
Black Women are dying from Cervical Cancer at Disproportional Rates in Georgia
(Atlanta, January 20, 2022) – The United States federal and many state and local governments are not doing enough to end cervical cancer deaths, the Southern Rural Black Women's Initiative for Economic and Social Justice (SRBWI) and Human Rights…
"You Don't Feel Like a Person."
Families in London are living in substandard and uninhabitable "temporary accommodation" as a result of persistent policy failures by central and local government. The UK government is failing in its duty to ensure the right to adequate housing…
December 15, 2021 Video
Cameroon: School Attacks
(Nairobi, December 16, 2021) – Systematic and widespread attacks by armed separatist groups on students, teachers, and schools in Cameroon's Anglophone regions since 2017 have had a devastating impact on children's right to education, Human Rights Watch…
December 7, 2021 Video
Decades of Impunity Paved Way for Myanmar's Coup
Police and soldiers have killed more than 1,300 people and arrested more than 10,000 protesters, journalists, and others in Myanmar. The methodical and systematic post-coup abuses, like those inflicted on the Rohingya, amount to crimes against…
November 10, 2021 Video
Meet an Activist: Ridhima Pandey
The climate crisis is a children's rights crisis. All over the world, children face death, illness, hunger, and displacement due to the climate crisis. Children's lives, and those of future generations, are at stake. But young people are now speaking up…
October 20, 2021 Video
Syria: Returning Refugees Face Grave Abuse
(Beirut) – Syrian refugees who returned to Syria between 2017 and 2021 from Lebanon and Jordan faced grave human rights abuses and persecution at the hands of the Syrian government and affiliated militias, Human Rights Watch…
September 21, 2021 Video
Gender-Based Violence Survivors in Kenya Need More Government Support
(Nairobi, September 21, 2021) – The Kenyan government's response to gender-based violence during the Covid-19 pandemic has been too little, too late, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 61-page report, "'I Had Nowhere to Go':…
Shimelba Refugee Camp
Satellite imagery collected on December 16, 17 and 18 show the progressive expansion of burn scars in Shimelba refugee camp, specifically in the DICAC [Development and Inter-Church Aid Commission] schoolyard, located on the eastern side of the image.…
September 3, 2021 Video
Interview with Karine Poghosyan
July 21, 2021 Video
How Aluminum Production Is Impacting Human Rights
(Washington, DC, July 22, 2021) – Automobile companies need to do more to address abuses in their aluminum supply chains and the bauxite mines they source from, Human Rights Watch and Inclusive Development International said in a report released today.…
The Devastating Impact of Criminalizing Abortion in Ecuador
(Washington, D.C., July 14, 2021) – Ecuador's laws criminalizing abortion violate the rights and risk the lives and health of women and girls, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 128-page report, "'Why Do They Want to Make Me Suffer…
June 22, 2021 Video
Frontex Should Protect People at EU External Borders
(Brussels, June 23, 2021) – The European Union border guard agency's oversight mechanisms have failed to safeguard people against serious human rights violations at the EU's external borders, Human Rights Watch said today. An analysis of the…
June 9, 2021 Video
Reauthorize Cross-Border Aid into Northern Syria
Millions of Syrians risk losing access to lifesaving aid, including during the Covid-19 pandemic, if Russia vetoes reauthorizing the only remaining UN aid corridor from Turkey into opposition-held northwest Syria, Human Rights Watch…
Oil Palm Expansion Risks Environment, Harms Communities
(Jakarta, June 3, 2021) – The harm a palm oil plantation in western Kalimantan, Indonesia, is causing to the surrounding communities and the environment demonstrates the government's failure to enforce its own policies and laws, Human Rights Watch said in…
May 26, 2021 Video
Covid-19's Impact on Children's Rights
(New York, May 26, 2021) – The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with school closures and inadequate government assistance, is pushing children into exploitative and dangerous child labor, Human Rights Watch said in a report…
Kids Talk Covid and Schools
Governments should act swiftly to redress the harm caused to children's education in the wake of the unprecedented disruption from the Covid-19 pandemic, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch accompanied its report with an…
Killing Schoolgirls in Afghanistan
Scenes from Sayed ul-Shuhada High School in Kabul, Afghanistan, where as many as 85 people including many schoolgirls were killed in an attack this weekend, should break anyone's heart. They certainly broke mine. In 2017 a filmmaker and I spent a week at…
May 6, 2021 Video
Women and Girls Face Barriers to Health Care in Afghanistan
(New York, May 6, 2021) – Falling donor support for essential services in Afghanistan is reducing women's access to essential health care, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. More cuts are likely in coming months following the announcement…
April 23, 2021 Video
Venezuelans Flee from Abusive Security Forces
(Washington, DC, April 26, 2021) – Venezuelan security forces have committed egregious abuses against local residents during a weeks-long operation against armed groups on the border with Colombia, Human Rights Watch said today. Venezuelan security…
March 19, 2021 Video
Missile Strike in Marib city on March 16, 2021.
A video showing the crater where a Houthi missile struck in Marib city on March 16, 2021, and damage to surrounding vehicles and buildings
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