For probably the first time, Bangladesh’s government has leveled pollution-related fines against two leather tanneries in Hazaribagh, a Dhaka neighborhood so polluted with waste from its roughly 150 tanneries that residents and workers are plagued by serious health problems.
Sex workers in San Francisco, Washington DC, and part of New York State can now carry condoms – protecting themselves and their clients from HIV/AIDS – without fearing that police will use the condoms as evidence of prostitution.
Ukraine’s recent registration of oral morphine, a strong pain medication used most frequently to treat severe cancer pain, is a major step toward improving end-of-life care, Human Rights Watch said today.
The international mercury treaty just agreed sends an important signal that governments must do more to address the threat of mercury to the right to health, Human Rights Watch said today. On January 19, 2013, 140 governments created the treaty after five rounds of intense talks, which began in 2010.
In June, Human Rights Watch reported that dozens of former Ivorian and Liberian combatants loyal to the previous Ivorian government were using Liberia as a base to launch raids into Côte d’Ivoire. There, they targeted civilians perceived as supporting President Alassane Ouattara. We reported that since July 2011, attackers killed at least 50 people during these raids and displaced thousands more.
After Human Rights Watch issued a report on violence against migrants in Greece, the country announced plans to establish a new police unit to deal with racial violence. The justice minister also promised stiffer sentences for hate crimes. Both were key recommendations from our report.
A British judge granted a last minute injunction, citing Human Rights Watch’s research, as justification for halting the deportation of Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka.
Our research has shown that laws sentencing juveniles to life without parole are unjust. We estimate that across the nation, 59 percent of youth sentenced to life without parole are first-time offenders, without even a shoplifting record. In California, where the more than 300 youth serving life without parole constitute more than 10 percent of the nation’s total, African American youth receive this sentence at 18 times the rate for white youth.
In March, our researchers visited seven Yemeni schools occupied by armed forces on both sides of the fighting. Afterward, we met with government officials and opposition armed groups, voicing the danger this posed to children and their education. By August, troops had vacated five of the schools we visited.
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