• Greece: Abusive Crackdown on Migrants
    Jun 12, 2013
    Athens police are conducting abusive stops and searches and have detained tens of thousands of people in a crackdown on irregular migration, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
  • Kenya: Police Abuse Nairobi’s Refugees
    May 29, 2013

    Kenyan police in Nairobi tortured, raped, and otherwise abused and arbitrarily detained at least 1,000 refugees between mid-November 2012 and late January 2013.

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Reports

  • Barely Surviving
    Detention, Abuse, and Neglect of Migrant Children in Indonesia
  • Unwelcome Guests
    Greek Police Abuses of Migrants in Athens
  • Turned Away
    Summary Returns of Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Adult Asylum Seekers from Italy to Greece
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Asylum Seekers

  • Greece: Abusive Crackdown on Migrants
    Jun 12, 2013
    Athens police are conducting abusive stops and searches and have detained tens of thousands of people in a crackdown on irregular migration, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
  • Frontex Should Respect Rights, Even on the High Seas
    Jun 6, 2013
  • Kenya’s 600,000 Terrorists
    May 29, 2013
    You Are All Terrorists came the dreaded words, as the blows and kicking mercilessly rained down before a police car pulled up and took the suspect away.
  • Kenya: Police Abuse Nairobi’s Refugees
    May 29, 2013

    Kenyan police in Nairobi tortured, raped, and otherwise abused and arbitrarily detained at least 1,000 refugees between mid-November 2012 and late January 2013.

  • Q&A: Turning Migrants into Criminals
    May 22, 2013
    Questions and answers about Human Rights Watch's report, "Turning Migrants into Criminals: The Harmful Impact of US Border Prosecutions."
  • Immigration reform overlooks asylum-seekers
    Apr 26, 2013
    "Work authorization is not meant to get you rich, it's to let you live," said an Egyptian asylum-seeker who fled to the United States after a radical group beat him and tried to kidnap his wife and daughter. After fleeing persecution in their home countries, asylum-seekers like this man in New Jersey face a new type of maltreatment in the United States: The U.S. government won't let them work during what is often a drawn-out asylum process.
  • Blocking Syrian Refugees Isn’t the Way
    Apr 23, 2013
    The refugee burden that Syria’s neighbors are shouldering is heavy and should not be borne alone. But keeping people fleeing for their lives in buffer zones inside Syrian borders risks trapping rather than protecting them.
  • UAE: Don’t Deport Tamil Refugees to Sri Lanka
    Apr 6, 2013
    United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities should not deport 19 Tamil refugees to Sri Lanka because they would be at serious risk of torture and persecution upon return. The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has recognized all 19 as refugees, but the UAE authorities have told the group they must leave the country by April 11, 2013.
  • Jordan: President’s Visit Shouldn’t Ignore Refugees in Peril
    Mar 22, 2013

    During his visit Friday to Jordan, there’s little doubt President Obama will praise it for its hospitality toward some 350,000 Syrian refugees. While praise and support for Jordan’s reception of many Syrian refugees is deserved, the president should not give Jordan a free pass when it comes to its forcible returns of Palestinian refugees to Syria.

  • Jordan: Obama Should Press King on Asylum Seeker Pushbacks
    Mar 21, 2013
    Jordan is routinely and unlawfully rejecting Palestinian refugees, single males, and undocumented people seeking asylum at its border with Syria, said Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic (the Harvard Clinic).
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