• HIV/TB and Human Rights

    Vulnerability to both HIV and TB infection is fueled by a wide range of human rights violations. People living with HIV/AIDS around the world continue to suffer abuse, stigmatization and discrimination and persons infected by TB and HIV/AIDS often face restrictions on their rights to freedom of movement.

  • Iran: Donors Should Reassess Anti-Drug Funding
    Aug 21, 2012
    United Nations agencies and international donors should immediately freeze financial and other assistance to Iran’s drug control programs, Human Rights Watch and Harm Reduction International (HRI) said today. The funding contributes to abusive prosecutions of drug suspects, the groups said.
  • HIV Conference: Include People With Disabilities
    Jul 20, 2012
    Donors supporting HIV programs, policymakers, and service providers should ensure that the world’s one billion people with disabilities have equal access to HIV prevention and treatment.
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  • The disabled often are denied information about sex and HIV
    Dec 1, 2012
    Over a billion people — 15 percent of the world’s population — live with a disability. These numbers should confer power and authority in decision making about all aspects of their lives, including to HIV and AIDS. Yet people with disabilities have been largely ignored in the global response to HIV.
  • Invisible Prisoners
    Sep 3, 2012
    JURIST Guest Columnist Katherine Todrys of the Health and Human Rights Division of Human Rights Watch recounts her experiences researching disease transmission and living standards in African prisons. She calls for sweeping criminal justice reforms to address the systemic problems of overcrowding, human rights abuses and wrongful imprisonment.
  • A Step Backward for AIDS Prevention
    Aug 28, 2012
    On World AIDS Day last year, President Obama recognized the progress against the HIV epidemic, saying there is "the real possibility of an AIDS-free generation." This possibility, however, was dealt a serious blow in January when Congress gutted a key component of HIV prevention by reinstating a ban on federal funding of syringe exchange programs.
  • Iran: Donors Should Reassess Anti-Drug Funding
    Aug 21, 2012
    United Nations agencies and international donors should immediately freeze financial and other assistance to Iran’s drug control programs, Human Rights Watch and Harm Reduction International (HRI) said today. The funding contributes to abusive prosecutions of drug suspects, the groups said.
  • India: Confirm Policy Ending Mandatory HIV Tests
    Jul 21, 2012

    In 2002 the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare ended mandatory HIV testing for foreigners; however, despite more than a decade since the change, government websites and visa forms still suggest that there are mandatory HIV testing requirements and restrictions for HIV-infected foreigners.

  • HIV Conference: Include People With Disabilities
    Jul 20, 2012
    Donors supporting HIV programs, policymakers, and service providers should ensure that the world’s one billion people with disabilities have equal access to HIV prevention and treatment.
  • US: Police Practices Fuel HIV Epidemic
    Jul 19, 2012

    Police in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and San Francisco are confiscating condoms from sex workers and transgender women, undermining health department campaigns to reduce HIV.

  • Distributing, Then Confiscating, Condoms
    Jul 15, 2012

    Over the last eight months, Human Rights Watch has interviewed more than 200 current and former sex workers in New York, Los Angeles, Washington and San Francisco. The interviews were part of an investigation into barriers to H.I.V. prevention for sex workers, who, worldwide, are more than 10 times as likely to be infected as the general population. What we found was shocking: While public health departments spend millions of dollars promoting and distributing condoms, police departments are harassing sex workers for carrying them and using them as evidence to support arrests.

  • Joint Letter to UN Special Rapporteur on Health
    May 9, 2012
    Human Rights Watch, Positive Voice, and the European AIDS Treatment Group write to the special rapporteur on two issues of urgent and serious concern in Greece: the administrative detention and compulsory medical testing of immigrants and asylum seekers based on health status and the arrest, criminal prosecution and compulsory HIV testing of sex workers.
  • A sick system abuses its refugees
    Mar 18, 2012

    South Africa's tourism website describes the country as the "land of good times and friendly people". Sadly, Araya Y, a pregnant Somali refugee living in Port Elizabeth, did not experience this side of the country. Instead, when she went to a government district hospital in July 2010 to give birth, she was abused by medical staff and denied care. 

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