Reports

Refugees

  • Maternal mortality under scrutiny
    May 4, 2012
    Since the 1990s South Africa has not reduced the number of women who die needlessly each year from preventable and treatable causes linked to pregnancy and childbirth.
  • 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. 

  • North Korea: Conference on Rights Abuses
    Nov 22, 2011

    North Korea’s brutal prison camp system and its practice of kidnapping foreigners will be featured at the  11th International Conference on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees  on November 23, 2011, in Geneva, the  Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, Conectas Direitos Humanos, and Human Rights Watch announced today.  

  • Abkhazia must raise its game on human rights
    Nov 20, 2011
    They like playing dominoes in Abkhazia. As dusk falls, young men unpack their pieces on the promenade by the Black Sea in Sukhumi, the picturesque capital of this breakaway territory bidding for independence from Georgia.
  • Keeping Health Systems Accountable: A Critical Component of the Every Woman, Every Child Campaign
    Oct 20, 2011

    Abeba M., an Ethiopian refugee living in Port Elizabeth, a small coastal town of South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province, developed severe high blood pressure during her pregnancy. She went to a district hospital for treatment of this dangerous condition, but left because “the nurses and doctors did not treat me well,” she told me. She had to return when her condition worsened, though, and was admitted. Instead of getting the help she needed, she experienced treatment delays, abuse, and negligence.

  • Jordan: Letter with Recommendations for Constitutional Revisions
    Jul 5, 2011
    The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, Human Rights Watch and the International Federation for Human Rights welcome King Abdullah's initiative to form a royal committee to revise the constitution, in order to move towards a rights-respecting democracy. Our organisations urge the royal committee to pursue its efforts in a broadly inclusive manner, including in consultation with civil society, and on the full range of issues.
  • Oral Statement - U.N. Follow Up Libya Special Session
    Jun 9, 2011
  • Israel: Investigate Killings During Border Protests
    May 20, 2011
    Israel should conduct prompt, thorough, and independent criminal investigations into the killings of protesters by military forces on May 15, 2011. Fourteen people were killed during demonstrations in southern Lebanon, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank during the annual Palestinian commemoration of "Nakba Day." A fifteenth protester died of his wounds on May 16.
  • With a Migrant Crisis Looming, the EU Should Learn from its Past Mistakes
    Apr 6, 2011
    I was not prepared to document torture and severe abuses when I started researching the human rights situation for migrants in Europe. After all, I was working on Western Europe, the developed world with a rule of law, independent judiciaries, functioning social services, and oversight bodies.
  • 16th Session of the UN Human Rights Council - Follow-up to the 15th Special Session on the Situation of Human Rights in Libya
    Mar 14, 2011
    Human Rights Watch welcomes the appointment of three high-level experts to the Commission of Inquiry for Libya and urges them to begin their investigations. Serious human rights violations are being committed in Libya, and they threaten to get much worse.
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