Deportation by Default
This 98-page report says that immigrants with mental disabilities are often unjustifiably detained for years on end, sometimes with no legal limits. The report documents case after case in which people with mental disabilities were prevented from makin…Continue Reading
Senegal/Chad: Nobel Winners, African Activists Seek Progress in Habré Trial
(Dakar) – The Nobel Peace Prize winners Bishop Desmond Tutu and Shirin Ebadi, as well as 117 African human rights groups from 25 countries, called today for the government of Senegal and the African Union to move forward with the trial of Hissène Ha…Continue Reading
Cambodia: Sex Workers Face Unlawful Arrests and Detention
read moreContinue Reading
Kyrgyzstan/Uzbekistan: Governments Should Open Border
read moreContinue Reading
Guinea-Bissau: Pass Anti-Trafficking Law
(Dakar) – Guinea-Bissau’s National Assembly should act quickly to pass a law criminalizing human trafficking, Human Rights Watch, SOS Talibé Children, and the Association of the Friends of Children said today.
read moreContinue Reading
Off the Streets
This 76-page report is based on more than 90 interviews and group discussions with female and transgender sex workers in Phnom Penh, Battambang, Banteay Meanchey, and Siem Reap. It describes how sex workers face a wide range of abuses, including beatin…Continue Reading
Uganda: Bombing was Abhorrent Expansion of Attacks on Civilians
Tweet Widget
Facebook Like
The bomb blasts that killed at least 76 people in Kampala on July 11, 2010, were a heinous attack on civilians and an assault on the basic tenet of the right to life.
Uganda: Bombing was Abhorrent Expansion of Attacks on Civilians
The bomb blasts that killed at least 76 people in Kampala on July 11, 2010, were a heinous attack on civilians and an assault on the basic tenet of the right to life.
(New York) -The bomb blasts …Continue Reading
Kenya: Living Death For Poor Women Sufferers
With about 3,000 Kenyan women and girls developing obstetric fistula each year, you might think the government would have a plan to prevent and treat it. Think again.
read moreContinue Reading
“I Am Not Dead, But I Am Not Living”
This 82-page report describes the devastating condition facing women with fistula in Kenya and the wide gap between government’s policies to address reproductive health and the reality of women’s daily lives.
read moreContinue Reading
Kyrgyzstan: Torture, Detentions Escalate Tensions
read moreContinue Reading
HIV Behind Bars
International AIDS Conferences — like the one planned for next week in Vienna — can be strange affairs. On the one hand, there is a reason to celebrate: Scaled up treatment campaigns have prolonged millions of lives; HIV testing and education are r…Continue Reading
Kazakhstan: Migrant Tobacco Workers Cheated, Exploited
Tweet Widget
Facebook Like
Many migrant tobacco workers in Kazakhstan have been cheated and exploited, and some trapped into forced labor.
read moreContinue Reading
“Hellish Work”
Exploitation of Migrant Tobacco Workers in Kazakhstan
This 115-page report documents how some employers confiscated migrant workers’ passports, failed to provide them with written contracts, did …Continue Reading
The “Ten-Dollar Talib” and Women’s Rights
This 65-page report addresses the potential challenges to women’s rights posed by future government agreements with insurgent forces. The report describes how in areas under Taliban control, women are often subjected to threats, intimidation and violen…Continue Reading