Denmark

May 21, 2019

Business is Also Ethics

What connects the Copenhagen Fashion Summit and the Amarnath Yatra, a pilgrimage in northern India? Garment factory owners navigating business pressures, workers’ rights, and an apparel industry that often pits the business pressures against labor rights.

Women's Rights

May 21, 2019 Commentary

Business is Also Ethics

Aruna Kashyap
Senior Counsel, Women's Rights Division

Published In: Børsen
Free Speech

June 1, 2018 Dispatches

Denmark’s Face Veil Ban Latest in Harmful Trend

Hillary Margolis
Researcher, Women's Rights Division
Women's Rights

May 15, 2018 Commentary

Secrecy Is Never in Fashion

Agnieszka Bielecka
Coordinator, Women's Rights Division

Published In: Politiken

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February 6, 2019 Video

Video: Danish Jehovah's Witness Dennis Christensen Sentenced to 6 Years in Russia

Reports More Reports

February 15, 2006

Questions and Answers on the Danish Cartoons and Freedom of Expression

When Speech Offends

News

July 11, 2017 Letter

Letter from HRW to Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs Anders Samuelsen
March 8, 2017 Commentary

The Erosion of Human Rights Protection Systems

Måns Molander
Director, Sweden and Denmark

Published In: Advokaten
March 8, 2017 Letter

Civil Society Letter to Heads of State and Government on EU Response to the Refugee Crisis
February 28, 2017 News Release

Governments Step Up for Reproductive Rights
September 2, 2016 Commentary

Danish Lawmakers Will Find Nauru No Model for Europe

Michael Garcia Bochenek
Senior Counsel, Children’s Rights Division

Published In: Politiken
February 18, 2015 Commentary

In 2015, Anti-Semitism Should No Longer Be a Reality in Europe

Izza Leghtas

Published In: The Huffington Post
December 10, 2014 Commentary

Whatever Happened to Winning Hearts and Minds?

Benjamin Ward
UK Director (Acting) & Deputy Director, Europe & Central Asia Division

Published In: Open Democracy
June 28, 2014 Commentary

No More State-Enforced Surgeries

Boris Dittrich

Published In: de Volkskrant
June 24, 2014 News Release

Europe: Progress for Transgender Rights
February 21, 2013 News Release

The Netherlands: Halt Plan to Deport Somalis
February 14, 2013 Commentary

Divided We Fall: Intolerance in Europe Puts Rights at Risk

Benjamin Ward
UK Director (Acting) & Deputy Director, Europe & Central Asia Division

Published In: open Democracy
April 10, 2012 Commentary

Bahrain: Why Abdulhadi al-Khawaja Should Be Free

Lotte Leicht

Published In: Berlingske Tidende

Daily Brief

June 18, 2019

Death of former Egyptian president calls for investigation; Hong Kong’s chief executive apologizes but does not back down; UN condemns own response to Myanmar’s crackdown on Rohingya; fuelling teenage pregnancies in the Dominican Republic; draconian evictions in Guinea; the dangers of environmental reporting; Saudi teenager not to be executed; and support for the rights of intersex people on the rise.