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November 30, 2020 Statement

Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Oman

88th Pre-Session

April 9, 2020 News Release

COVID-19’s Devastating Impact on Children

Governments Should Mitigate Harm, Protect Most Vulnerable

A child washing hands with anti-bacterial soap as a preventive measure against COVID-19, at Sadarghat Launch Terminal, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on March 27, 2020.
February 6, 2020 News Release

Tunisia: Six Orphans Brought Home from Libya

Thousands of Children of ISIS Suspects in Syria, Libya, Iraq Need Help

A woman walks with a child in Roj camp, which holds foreign wives and children of Islamic State (ISIS) members, in northeast Syria, September 2018. © 2018 Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images
March 7, 2019 Letter

Submission by Human Rights Watch to the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child on Senegal

33rd Ordinary Session, 2019

October 16, 2018 News Release

China: Children Caught in Xinjiang Crackdown

Reunite Families; End Mass Arbitrary Detention

China Xinjiang
October 10, 2018 News Release

Croatia: End Confinement of People with Disabilities

Ensure Right to Live in the Community, Quality Support Services

Restraints on a bed in a seclusion room for children in a psychiatric hospital
February 15, 2018 Dispatches

Russian Court Says Foster Mother Unfit Because of ‘Male Behavior’

Discriminatory Ruling Breaks Up Family

“Sometime and somewhere there used to be summer,” Yulia Savinovskikh posted to Facebook in November 2017 after guardianship agency officials removed two foster children from her care.
November 17, 2017 Dispatches

Russian Government Takes Children from Foster Mother Because of Breast Surgery

Discriminatory Assumptions Land Children in Orphanage

Two boys who were under the care of foster parent Yulia Savinovskikh until August 2017.
October 9, 2017 Commentary

ISIS’s Other Victims

A woman fleeing the fighting between the Islamic State and Iraqi Security Forces in Intisar neighbourhood in eastern Mosul on November 7, 2016.
September 25, 2017 News Release

Burma: Military Commits Crimes Against Humanity

Expulsions, Murder, Rape, Persecution of Rohingya

Rohingya refugees shortly after arrival in Bangladesh.
September 20, 2017 Report

Iraq/KRG: 1,400 Women, Children From ISIS Areas Detained

Investigate Killings, Abductions of Foreign Men

Iraqi Ministry of Transportation buses taking internally displaced families to Hammam al-Alil in May 2017. In late August, Iraqi authorities bused 1,400 foreign women and children to the site. © 2017 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch
May 21, 2017 Dispatches

Armenia Should Prioritize Children Over Orphanages

Embezzlement Allegations Highlight Unsuitability of Institutions for Children

A boy sits on a swing in the courtyard of an orphanage for children with disabilities, Yerevan, Armenia.
April 24, 2017 Dispatches

What I Told My Son About Starving Children in Belarus Orphanages

Explaining the Inhuman Treatment of Children with Disabilities

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July 28, 2016 Report

Senegal: New Steps to Protect Talibés, Street Children

Sustain Momentum with Investigations, Prosecutions

More than a dozen talibé boys between the ages of 6 and 14 were found shackled with iron bars in their Quranic school in Diourbel,Senegal
June 8, 2016 Witness

Witness: As If My Child Were a Burden to Me

Julija Čuković, who spent ten months of her life in an institution, at home in Kragujevac with her parents, where she enjoys to play with her younger sister, also in the photo. © 2016 Zoran Stamenković

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