• Cambodia: Cut Draft Provision Allowing Prison Labor
    Nov 28, 2011

    The Cambodian government should urge the Senate to strike a provision of the draft Law on Prisons that would permit prison labor to be used for producing goods for private firms.

  • Zimbabwe: Rampant Abuses in Marange Diamond Fields
    Aug 30, 2011

    (Johannesburg) – Zimbabwe police and private security guards employed by mining companies in the Marange diamond fields are shooting, beating and unleashing attack dogs on poor, local unlicensed miners. 

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  • Gold’s image tarnished by child labour in mines
    Dec 22, 2011
    There has been a lot of debate about corporate social responsibility. But most gold traders I interviewed showed no concern about the use of child labour.
  • Cambodia: Cut Draft Provision Allowing Prison Labor
    Nov 28, 2011

    The Cambodian government should urge the Senate to strike a provision of the draft Law on Prisons that would permit prison labor to be used for producing goods for private firms.

  • Zimbabwe: Rampant Abuses in Marange Diamond Fields
    Aug 30, 2011

    (Johannesburg) – Zimbabwe police and private security guards employed by mining companies in the Marange diamond fields are shooting, beating and unleashing attack dogs on poor, local unlicensed miners. 

  • EU: Freeze Assets of Syrian Oil and Gas Companies
    Aug 16, 2011
    The European Union (EU) should freeze the assets of the Syrian National Oil Company, Syrian National Gas Company, and the Central Bank of Syria until the Syrian government ends gross human rights abuses against its citizens. On August 13, 2011, Human Rights Watch sent a letter to the EU High Representative and foreign ministers of the 27 member states urging them to swiftly impose such sanctions.
  • US/Colombia: Rights Conditions Crucial for Trade Deal
    Apr 7, 2011
    The US Congress should insist on vigorous enforcement of human rights commitments by Presidents Barack Obama and Juan Manuel Santos before moving forward on the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
  • US/Colombia: Establish Benchmarks for Trade Pact
    Mar 17, 2011
    The initiative by members of the US Congress to establish human rights benchmarks that Colombia should meet prior to US ratification of the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is a critically important development.
  • Kimberley Process: Demand End to Abuses in Diamond Trade
    Nov 1, 2010
    The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme should not allow further exports from the Marange diamond fields in Zimbabwe until the government makes clear progress in ending abuses and smuggling. Participants in the scheme, an international body that oversees the diamond trade, are scheduled to meet in Jerusalem from November 1 to 4, 2010.
  • Cuba: Letter to Chairman Berman on Lifting the US Travel Ban
    Sep 27, 2010
    Human Rights Watch would like to reiterate its strong support for the legislation, which would make it possible for all Americans to travel freely to Cuba, and remove obstacles to legal sales of US agricultural commodities to the island. Ending the travel ban is a necessary step towards ending a US policy that has failed for decades to improve human rights in Cuba. 
  • US: European Corporate Hypocrisy
    Sep 1, 2010
    Many European companies that publicly embrace workers' rights under global labor standards nevertheless undermine workers' rights in their US operations, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued today.
  • UK Should Not Put Trade with Sudan Ahead of Human Rights
    Aug 16, 2010
    The new UK government has made it clear that an important priority of its foreign policy will be to promote British trade and investment abroad. But recent remarks in Sudan by the Africa minister, Henry Bellingham, raise concerns that, by blindly pursuing commercial interests, the UK runs the risk of undermining international efforts to protect human rights and promote justice for serious abuses.
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