• Pakistan: Protect Students, Teachers, Schools From Attack
    Oct 19, 2012
    The Pakistani government must take immediate steps to protect students, teachers, schools, and rights defenders at risk of attack, Human Rights Watch said today. Armed groups including the Taliban, al Qaeda, and their affiliates should cease attacks that target children, educational personnel, and schools.
  • Thailand: Separatists Target Teachers in Renewed Violence
    Oct 10, 2012

    Armed separatist groups in Thailand’s southern border provinces have renewed attacks on teachers and schools in a campaign of terror that has heightened fear among the population.

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  • Malala is face of global attacks on schools
    Oct 25, 2012
    The gruesome gunning-down of 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai spotlighted the fate of children in Pakistan, one of the world's most dangerous places to go to school. But in war zones around the world, from Afghanistan to Yemen, students, teachers and schools are regularly coming under attack. These are the world's unrecognized Malalas.
  • Protecting Thailand's Malalas
    Oct 24, 2012
    The recent shooting of 14-year-old Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai shocked the world and put a spotlight on the fate of children in one of the world's most dangerous places to go to school. But Thailand's three southern border provinces also make it onto that list of places where students and teachers each day fear turning up for school.
  • Pakistan: Protect Students, Teachers, Schools From Attack
    Oct 19, 2012
    The Pakistani government must take immediate steps to protect students, teachers, schools, and rights defenders at risk of attack, Human Rights Watch said today. Armed groups including the Taliban, al Qaeda, and their affiliates should cease attacks that target children, educational personnel, and schools.
  • Ukraine: Letter to Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
    Oct 16, 2012
    The provisions of the proposed law violate fundamental human rights, including the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly. Should the law be enacted, it will create an unacceptable environment of state-promoted discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, including those under 18 years of age. This draft law would also endanger the rights of human rights defenders to engage in human rights work regarding the rights of LGBT people.
  • Thailand: Separatists Target Teachers in Renewed Violence
    Oct 10, 2012

    Armed separatist groups in Thailand’s southern border provinces have renewed attacks on teachers and schools in a campaign of terror that has heightened fear among the population.

  • UN Human Rights Council: Adoption of the Outcome of South Africa's UPR
    Sep 21, 2012
    Human Rights Watch welcomes the UPR report on South Africa, which includes important recommendations concerning South Africa’s full compliance with international human rights law, the progressive realization of economic and social rights, protecting freedom of expression, and upholding women’s rights and the rights of vulnerable groups.
  • Yemen: Troops Used Schools, Endangering Children
    Sep 11, 2012
    Government forces and other armed groups deployed in schools in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, during the 2011-2012 uprising, putting students at risk and undermining education. The uprising ended the 33-year rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
  • At the expense of children
    Jun 12, 2012
    Every year, the UN secretary-general publishes a report detailing grave violations committed against children by armed forces and armed groups around the world. From Afghanistan to Yemen it recounts cases of children killed and maimed during hostilities, children used as child soldiers, sexual violence against children, attacks on schools and teachers, and the military use of schools. It can make for some fairly depressing reading.
  • Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch Joint Statement on the Rio + 20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development
    Jun 12, 2012

    Realizing human rights and achieving sustainable development are inter-dependent and mutually-reinforcing goals. States must ensure that the Outcome Document of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development recognizes the centrality of human rights to sustainable development and reaffirms the international human rights framework.

  • UN: ‘List of Shame’ Cites School Attacks
    Jun 12, 2012
    Armed forces and armed groups that attack schools and teachers should face consequences from the United Nations Security Council.
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