HRW's Bede Sheppard explains how students, schools and teachers are caught between the rebels and the government in southern Thailand. Photography by David Hogsholt/Reportage by Getty Images and Human Rights Watch.
A new report from Human Rights Watch suggests that 80 percent of rape kits in Illinois are never tested. This is the story of one Illinois rape survivor whose rape kit remains untested.
Photographs by Lorena Ros/Institute
Approximately 100,000 civilians are trapped in a government-declared "no-fire zone" in the northern Vanni region of Sri Lanka. Tamil Tiger (LTTE) rebels have prevented civilians from leaving a tiny strip of land, while government forces have repeatedly and indiscriminately shelled the area.
In a climate of rising hate-motivated violence against migrants, exacerbated by the global financial crisis, the Russian government is failing to protect these workers from abusive employers, employment agencies, and police. Photographs by Moises Saman and reporting by Jane Buchanan, Europe and Central Asia Researcher for Human Rights Watch.
Chin of Burma's far-flung western Chin State have long borne the brunt of abusive military rule. Ongoing repression and abuses by the Burmese military, combined with policies and practices of the military government have caused thousands of ethnic Chin to flee the country. Most go across the border to India, and some to Malaysia and Thailand.
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