• Two girls sit near the window of a massage salon on a street in the city of Weifang in Shandong Province April 20, 2011.
    China’s punitive laws and policing practices against sex workers are leading to serious abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report published today.

Reports

Asia

  • May 21, 2013
    The Afghan government should take urgent steps to halt an alarming increase in women and girls imprisoned for “moral crimes."
  • May 21, 2013
    When the New York Times reported recently that the CIA routinely provides cash payments to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, totaling in the tens of millions of dollars, many were surprised. I wasn't among them. The Karzai scandal cycle has developed a certain amount of redundancy: his odd outbursts, his family's endless corruption, the vacillating positions on peace negotiations and about faces on the Taliban one day and the United States the next--it has lost the power to shock. CIA payments are not even at the front of this parade of infamies.
  • May 20, 2013
  • May 20, 2013
    Here’s a story to break your heart – thousands of Afghan refugee boys who roam Europe alone, without parents, without enough help from European governments, and at risk of destitution, detention, and death.
  • May 20, 2013
    Respect for basic rights and liberties has declined in Sri Lanka in the four years since the government defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
  • May 19, 2013
    International telecommunications companies risk being linked to human rights abuses if they enter the Burmese market before adequate protections are in place, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Burma’s human rights reforms thus far have been inadequate, including in the Internet and telecommunications sector, so companies entering the country should adopt robust safeguards to prevent and address any abuses linked to their operations.
  • May 18, 2013
    The United States should use the upcoming visit by Burma’s president to ask tough questions about the slowing pace of human rights reforms and insist on implementation of past commitments.
  • May 18, 2013
  • May 18, 2013
  • May 17, 2013
    Three years on, the Thai government has failed to fulfill its promise to impartially prosecute all those responsible for the 2010 political violence.