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October 5, 2017 News Release

Uzbekistan: Some Workers Excused from Cotton Fields

Political Will Needed to End Forced Labor

13-year-old boy picking cotton in a World Bank project area, Ellikkala, Karakalpakstan, under orders from his school during the 2016 harvest.
October 5, 2017 News Release

Central African Republic: Sexual Violence as Weapon of War

Widespread Rape, Sexual Slavery by Armed Groups

Josephine, 28, said she fled her home in Bangui with her husband and five young children due to fighting in the city in October 2014. When she returned to her neighborhood to collect clothes and dishes for the family, three anti-balaka stopped her and t
October 5, 2017 Interactive

They Said We Are Their Slaves

Sexual Violence in Central African Republic
October 5, 2017 News Release

Mauritania: Prolonged Detention of Opposition Leader

Member of Dissolved Senate Held on Vague Corruption Charges

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October 5, 2017 Dispatches

Chechnya’s Long Arm of Retaliation Against Gay Men

LGBT Refugees Find that Safety in West is Far from Absolute

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October 4, 2017 News Release

Uzbekistan: 2 Activists Freed, Others Arrested

Guarantee Freedom to Express Critical Views

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Japan’s Gay Mockery Throwback

Outrage After Popular TV Program Ridicules LGBT Community

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October 4, 2017 Report

Jordan: Parliament Passes Human Rights Reforms

Advances for People With Disabilities, Women, Criminal Suspects

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October 4, 2017 News Release

Burma: Military Massacres Dozens in Rohingya Village

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October 4, 2017 Statement

Criminalization of Poverty as a Driver of Poverty in the United States

Harvard Criminal Justice Policy Program and Human Rights Watch Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

October 3, 2017 Dispatches

Victory for Gender Identity in Botswana

Country’s High Court Rules in Favor of Transgender Man

October 3, 2017 Report

Azerbaijan: Anti-Gay Crackdown

Gay Men, Transgender Women Tortured to Extort Money, Intelligence

Isa Shahmarly, former chair of the Free (Azad) LGBT group, whose experience as a gay man in Azerbaijan, drove him to suicide. In September 2017, police in Azerbaijan started a violent campaign, arresting and torturing men presumed to be gay or bisexual, a
October 3, 2017 Letter

Statement of Human Rights Watch for Hearing on “Oversight of the Administration’s Decision to End Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals”

October 3, 2017 Commentary

How US Surveillance Helps Repressive Regimes—the Ethiopia Case

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