• Advocacy/impact
    May 24, 2012
    Human Rights Watch welcomes the publication of the Foreign Office annual report on human rights and democracy.
  • Commentary
    Apr 25, 2012
    With the eyes of the world on the Oslo district court, there are stark contrasts on display. The twisted and hate-filled logic of Anders Breivik contrasts with the calm, dignified and above all fair criminal process against him.
  • Press release
    Apr 17, 2012
    Council of Europe member states should reject proposed UK changes to the European Court of Human Rights that could limit access to the court for those who most need it.
  • Press release
    Mar 26, 2012
    NATO and its member states should provide information to help clarify the chain of events that led to the death of 63 boat migrants in the Mediterranean a year ago.
  • Letter
    Mar 26, 2012
    We are writing to inquire further about internal investigations into the fatal boat episode of March-April 2011, in which a disabled boat filled with migrants fleeing Libya drifted for two weeks in the Mediterranean before landing back in Libya on April 10, 2011. Sixty-three out of the 72 people on board died.
  • Press release
    Feb 24, 2012

    The United Kingdom should suspend deportations of ethnic Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka and immediately review its policies and information about the country’s rights situation used to assess their claims.

  • Commentary
    Feb 20, 2012
    Torture occupies a special place in international law – it is banned at all times and in all places, no exceptions. Most countries, including the UK and Jordan, have signed up to the UN Convention Against Torture, which means they agree not only to the absolute ban on torture, and inhuman and degrading treatment, but also to refrain from any complicity in the crime. They cannot send people to a country where there is a real risk of torture, or use evidence in court obtained through torture.
  • Commentary
    Feb 10, 2012
    The UK plans to deport migrant children back to Afghanistan even if it cannot find their families – and it is not the only European country to make the proposal, writes Human Rights Watch campaigner
  • Press release
    Jan 22, 2012
    The European Union and member governments proved unwilling to tackle human rights abuse at home during 2011, even as they proclaimed the issue’s importance in inspiring the Arab Spring, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012.
  • Press release
    Jan 18, 2012
    The European Court of Human Rights ruling on January 17, 2012, against the deportation of a Jordanian national from the United Kingdom could have serious consequences for human rights protection in Europe, said three nongovernmental organizations that intervened in the case.