• Ukraine: Stop Harassing Somali Asylum Seekers
    Press release
    Feb 1, 2012
    The Ukrainian authorities should immediately stop police harassment and threats against Somali asylum seekers held at the Zhuravychi Migrant Accommodation Centre.
  • Ukraine: Open Letter regarding the Arbitrary Detention of Somali Asylum Seekers
    Letter
    Jan 31, 2012
    We are writing to raise our concern about the arbitrary detention of some or all of a group of 125 Somali nationals detained at the Zhuravychi Migrant Accommodation Centre (MAC). Some of them are registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) or the Ukrainian authorities as asylum seekers. Around 80 have told UNHCR they want to apply for asylum in Ukraine, but have not been allowed to do so.
  • Iraq/Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization: Cooperate With UN
    Press release
    Nov 30, 2011
    Both the leadership of the exiled Iranian opposition group Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization and the Iraqi government should fully cooperate with the UN refugee agency, Human Rights Watch said today.
  • North Korea: Conference on Rights Abuses
    Press release
    Nov 22, 2011

    North Korea’s brutal prison camp system and its practice of kidnapping foreigners will be featured at the  11th International Conference on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees  on November 23, 2011, in Geneva, the  Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, Conectas Direitos Humanos, and Human Rights Watch announced today.  

  • Sudan: End Mass Summary Deportations of Eritreans
    Press release
    Oct 25, 2011
    The Sudanese authorities are increasingly deporting Eritreans to their country without allowing them to claim asylum, Human Rights Watch said today. On October 17, 2011, Sudan handed over 300 Eritreans to the Eritrean military without screening them for refugee status, drawing public condemnation from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
  • Sharing Greece's asylum shame
    Commentary
    Sep 29, 2011
    The EU’s border agency should not be sending migrants to camps deemed abusive by Europe’s top human-rights court.
  • EU: Border Agency Exposes Migrants to Abusive Conditions
    Press release
    Sep 21, 2011
    Frontex, the European Union’s external border enforcement agency, is exposing migrants to inhuman and degrading conditions, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued today. Migrants apprehended along Greece’s land border with Turkey are sent to overcrowded detention centers in Greece.
  • Letter to Chinese Ministers Yang Jiechi and Meng Jianzhu
    Letter
    Sep 2, 2011
    We write on behalf of Human Rights Watch regarding the status and well-being of Chinese citizens of Uighur ethnicity who were forcibly returned from three different countries on August 6 and August 8, 2011.
  • Australia: Ruling Upholds Refugees’ Rights
    Press release
    Aug 31, 2011
    The Australian High Court ruled on August 31, 2011, that the Australia-Malaysia Transfer and Resettlement Arrangement is invalid and that any attempt to remove these asylum seekers to Malaysia would be unlawful.
  • EU: Summit Misses Opportunity on Migration
    Press release
    Jun 24, 2011
    The European Council summit that concluded on June 24, 2011, made no significant progress in addressing serious deficiencies in EU asylum and migration policies.