(Toronto) – The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch will honor the late Dr. Robert Carr and the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities coalition (CVC), which he founded and co-chaired, at the 3rd Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights on J…Continue Reading

Human Rights Watch is concerned about the failure of the Sri Lankan government to investigate well-founded allegations of very serious abuses that took place during the last months of its decades-long internal armed conflict, which ended in May 2009.
r…Continue Reading

Mr. President, we would like to thank Jorge Bustamante, the outgoing Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, for his work, make a few observations on his final report, and raise serious concerns about human rights abuses against migrant wor…Continue Reading

Serious abuses have increased in Darfur in the past six months while the world’s attention has focused on Southern Sudan’s upcoming independence, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The United …Continue Reading

(Tunis) – The Yemeni government’s escalating violence against largely peaceful protesters and medical workers should prompt countries around the world to freeze foreign assets of President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his top security officials, Human Rights…Continue Reading