Human Rights Watch submits this submission to the Special Committee on Manpower’s review of the draft Regional Regulation for Yogyakarta City Concerning Manpower with regard to the treatment of child domestic workers.

Guinea’s new leader should put the country’s chronic human rights problems at the top of his agenda. Human Rights Watch identified impunity for unlawful killings, torture, prison conditions, child labor, and child trafficking as among the key issues requiring the Guinean government's immediate attention.

Human Rights Watch writes to Mr. Ahmed Tidiane Souaré, leader of Guinea’s newly formed government, in order to express deep concern about the Guinean government's continuing inaction in the face of severe and ongoing human rights abuses in Guinea.

People in countries across the world are regularly harmed when businesses fail to respect basic human rights, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at New York University School of Law.

The Chinese government should abolish the use of income-generating child labor schemes in middle and junior high schools because of their chronic abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. Many programs interfere with children’s education, lack basic health and safety guarantees, and involve long hours and dangerous work.

Thousands of girls employed as domestic workers in Guinea face labor exploitation and physical abuse, on the eve of the International Day of the African Child. The new Guinean government, which took office in March, should fulfill its pledge to improve living conditions for youths, including child domestic workers.

In accepting an award from American Rights at Work today, Human Rights Watch hailed the partnership between labor rights and human rights organizations as crucial for defending workers’ right to organize, including in the United States, where that right has come under sustained attack.