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Publications Neighbors In Need Zimbabweans Seeking Refuge in South Africa
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-343-9 June 19, 2008 Download PDF, 451 KB, 119 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Hidden in the Mealie Meal Gender-Based Abuses and Women’s HIV Treatment in Zambia
HRW Index No.: A1918 December 18, 2007 Download PDF, 692 KB, 98 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Crackdown Repression of the 2007 Popular Protests in Burma
HRW Index No.: C1918 December 7, 2007 Download PDF, 1800 KB, 131 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Chronic Indifference HIV/AIDS Services for Immigrants Detained by the United States
HRW Index No.: G1905 December 6, 2007 Also available in 
Download PDF, 498 KB, 71 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Deadly Denial Barriers to HIV/AIDS Treatment for People Who Use Drugs in Thailand This 57-page report found that routine police harassment and arrest – as well as the lasting effects of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s 2003 drug war – keeps drug users from receiving lifesaving HIV information and services that Thailand has pledged to provide. The report also documents how drug users face discrimination from health care workers, who continue to deny antiretroviral treatment to people who need it based on their status as drug users. HRW Index No.: C1917 November 29, 2007 Also available in 
Download PDF, 280 KB, 59 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Rehabilitation Required Russia’s Human Rights Obligation to Provide Evidence-based Drug Dependence Treatment
HRW Index No.: D1907 November 8, 2007 Also available in 
Download PDF, 422 KB, 112 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book "Life Doesn't Wait" Romania’s Failure to Protect and Support Children and Youth Living with HIV More than 7,200 Romanian children and youth aged 15 to 19 are living with HIV. The vast majority were infected with HIV between 1986 and 1991 as a direct result of government policies that exposed them to contaminated needles and “microtransfusions” in which small children were injected with unscreened blood in the mistaken belief that this would improve their immunological status. This 104-page report documents violations of the rights of these children and youth to education, health, privacy and information. It also shows how the authorities fail to protect these children and youth from discrimination, abuse and neglect. HRW Index No.: D1806 August 2, 2006 Also available in 
Download PDF, 679 KB, 107 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book No Bright Future Government Failures, Human Rights Abuses and Squandered Progress in the Fight against AIDS in Zimbabwe This 72-page report documents how the abusive policies and practices of the Zimbabwean government are fueling the HIV/AIDS epidemic, increasing vulnerability to infection, and obstructing access to treatment. HRW Index No.: A1805 July 28, 2006 Download PDF, 413 KB, 72 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Rhetoric and Risk Human Rights Abuses Impeding Ukraine’s Fight Against HIV/AIDS This report documents how draconian drug laws and routine police abuse of injection drug users – the population hardest hit by HIV/AIDS in Ukraine – keep them from receiving lifesaving HIV information and services that the government has pledged to provide. HRW Index No.: D1802 March 2, 2006 Also available in
Download PDF, 496 KB, 86 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Letting Them Fail Government Neglect and the Right to Education for Children Affected by AIDS This 55-page report is based on firsthand testimony from dozens of children in three countries hard-hit by HIV/AIDS: South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda. It documents how governments fail children affected by AIDS when they leave school or attempt to return. Churches and community-based organizations provide critical support to these children, but these groups frequently operate with little government support or recognition. HRW Index No.: A1713 October 11, 2005 Download PDF, 372 KB, 59 pgs Purchase online Positively Abandoned Stigma and Discrimination against HIV-Positive Mothers and their Children in Russia As Russia’s HIV/AIDS epidemic spreads, thousands of HIV-positive mothers and their children face pervasive discrimination and abuse. This 41-page report focuses on the discrimination that these women face, as do their children, many of whom are abandoned to the care of the state. Today, as Russia’s escalating HIV/AIDS epidemic reaches beyond high-risk groups to the general population, a growing number of expectant mothers and infants have been placed in the path of the virus. Since the Federal AIDS Center in Moscow first started recording these statistics annually in 1997, nearly 10,000 HIV-positive women have given birth, the vast majority of whom had their children since 2002. HRW Index No.: D1704 July 16, 2005 Also available in
Download PDF, 310 KB, 43 pgs Purchase online Restrictions on AIDS Activists in China This 57-page report based on on-the-ground interviews with Chinese AIDS activists, gay rights activists, activists working with drug users, and website managers shows that while senior officials have said they want to encourage China's emerging civil society, many AIDS activists face state harassment and bureaucratic restrictions. First-hand accounts provided to Human Rights Watch reveal that activists conducting AIDS information workshops or working with those at high risk of HIV have been harassed or detained, and that pornography laws are used to censor websites providing AIDS information to gay men and lesbians under pornography laws. HRW Index No.: C1705 June 15, 2005 Download PDF, 432 KB, 59 pgs Purchase online The Less They Know, the Better Abstinence-Only HIV/AIDS Programs in Uganda This 80-page report documents the recent removal of critical HIV/AIDS information from primary school curricula, including information about condoms, safer sex and the risks of HIV in marriage. Draft secondary-school materials state falsely that latex condoms have microscopic pores that can be permeated by HIV, and that pre-marital sex is a form of “deviance.” HIV/AIDS rallies sponsored by the U.S. government spread similar falsehoods. HRW Index No.: A1704 March 30, 2005 Download PDF, 466 KB, 81 pgs Purchase online Hated to Death Homophobia, Violence, and Jamaica’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic Jamaica’s growing HIV/AIDS epidemic is unfolding in the context of widespread violence and discrimination against people living with and at high risk of HIV/AIDS, especially men who have sex with men. Myths about HIV/AIDS persist. Many Jamaicans believe that HIV/AIDS is a disease of homosexuals and sex workers whose “moral impurity” makes them vulnerable to it, or that HIV is transmitted by casual contact. HRW Index No.: B1606 November 16, 2004 Download PDF, 492 KB, 81 pgs Purchase online Future Forsaken Abuses Against Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in India This 209-page report documents how many doctors refuse to treat or even touch HIV-positive children. Some schools expel or segregate children because they or their parents are HIV-positive. Many orphanages and other residential institutions reject HIV-positive children or deny that they house them. Children from families affected by AIDS may be denied an education, pushed onto the street, forced into the worst forms of child labor, or otherwise exploited, all of which puts them at greater risk of contracting HIV. HRW Index No.: 1564323269 July 29, 2004 Download PDF, 1100 KB, 219 pgs Purchase online A Test of Inequality Discrimination against Women Living with HIV in the Dominican Republic Women in the Dominican Republic are routinely subjected to involuntary HIV testing, and those who test positive are fired and denied adequate healthcare. This 50-page report documents the human rights violations women living with HIV suffer in the public health system as well as in the workplace. Women receive grossly inadequate information about HIV from the public health system, preventing them from giving their informed consent to testing and treatment. Public health professionals routinely reveal HIV test results to women’s families without the tested individuals knowledge or consent, exposing them to violence and abuse. In addition, women living with HIV are frequently denied adequate and equal healthcare. HRW Index No.: B1604 July 13, 2004 Also available in
Download PDF, 331 KB, 50 pgs Purchase online Not Enough Graves The War on Drugs, HIV/AIDS, and Violations of Human Rights This 60-page report provides fresh evidence of extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and other human rights violations by Thai authorities. The report contains first-hand testimony from relatives of people killed during the drug war, as well as drug users who endured beatings, forced confessions and arbitrary arrests at the hands of Royal Thai Police. The government's anti-drug campaign has resulted in as many as 3,000 killings and has driven drug users underground and away from lifesaving HIV prevention services. HRW Index No.: C1608 July 8, 2004 Download PDF, 393 KB, 60 pgs Purchase online Unprotected Sex, Condoms and the Human Right to Health In this 70-page report, Human Rights Watch says that the Philippine government bans the use of national funds for condom supplies. Some local authorities, such as the mayor of Manila City, prohibit the distribution of condoms in government health facilities. School-based HIV/AIDS educators told Human Rights Watch that schools often prohibited them from discussing condoms with students. HRW Index No.: C1606 May 5, 2004 Download PDF, 852 KB, 70 pgs Purchase online Lessons Not Learned Human Rights Abuses and HIV/AIDS in the Russian Federation This 62-page report documents how harsh drug policies and routine police harassment of injection drug users—the population hit hardest by AIDS in Russia—impedes their access or makes them afraid to seek basic HIV-prevention services such as syringe exchange, which is available in other countries around the world. Now that AIDS is rapidly spreading into the general population, these misguided policies have widespread consequences. HRW Index No.: D1605 April 28, 2004 Download PDF, 380 KB, 62 pgs Purchase online Deadly Delay South Africa's Efforts to Prevent HIV in Survivors of Sexual Violence This 73-page report documents how government inaction and misinformation from high-level officials have undermined the effectiveness of South Africa’s program to provide rape survivors with post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) — antiretroviral drugs that can reduce the risk of contracting HIV from an HIV-positive attacker. HRW Index No.: A1603 March 4, 2004 Download PDF, 568 KB, 73 pgs Purchase online |
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