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January 31, 2020 News Release

Italy: Revoke Abusive Anti-Asylum Decrees

Draconian Migration Measures Put Lives, Rights at Risk

Migrants are crowded together on deck of the rescue ship "Eleonore" as it seaches for a safe port in the Mediterranean.
January 20, 2020 News Release

Qatar: End of Abusive Exit Permits for Most Migrant Workers

But Domestic Workers Will Have to Notify Employers Before Leaving

A picture taken on December 4, 2018, shows workers at the Al-Bayt Stadium in Al-Khor, a city in northeastern Qatar. © 2018 David Harding/AFP
January 14, 2020 News Release

US: Punitive Policies Undercut Rights

Migrants, Refugees, People of Color, Women Face Greatest Harms

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December 9, 2019 Dispatches

Utah Governor to Trump: ‘Allow Us to Accept More Refugees’

Letter Counters Trump Administration’s Historically Low Refugee Admittance Policies

Photo of a protest at the San Francisco International Airport against Donald Trump’s January 2017 executive order on immigration, January 28, 2017.
December 6, 2019 Dispatches

Brazil Grants Asylum to 21,000 Venezuelans in a Single Day

Decision Based on Reports of Severe Human Rights Abuses in Venezuela

Venezuelan children play in a refugee shelter in Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil, August 26, 2018.
December 4, 2019 Dispatches

France Drops Plan to Give Boats to Libya

Libya Could Have Used Ships to Commit Abuses Against Migrants and Asylum Seekers

Migrants on a boat that they tried to take to Italy, after being detained at a Libyan Navy base in Tripoli on September 20, 2015.
November 26, 2019 News Release

Greece: Put Rights at Heart of New Border Plan

Focus on Mainland Transfers, Not Detention

A Syrian man reads inside his tent at a makeshift camp outside Moria on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece.
November 25, 2019 Dispatches

US Should Cease Returning Asylum Seekers to Mexico

Trump Administration’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program Denies Rights to Asylum Seekers

Migrants seeking asylum wait in line with their case paperwork on October 5, 2019
November 19, 2019 Dispatches

France Slammed Over Treatment of Migrant Children

The French Ombudsman Confirms Human Rights Watch’s Findings

Daouda S., a 16-year-old unaccompanied boy from Guinea, has slept on the streets of Paris for weeks at a time while he waits for a judge to hear his case. Occasionally, he is able to stay with families for short stretches. Photograph by Roopa Gogineni.
November 13, 2019 Statement

Italy Shares Responsibility for Libya Abuses against Migrants

Third-Party Intervention Filed at European Court of Human Rights

November 12, 2019 Statement

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International Submissions to the European Court of Human Rights

November 8, 2019 News Release

EU: Address Croatia Border Pushbacks

Abuses Should Rule Out Schengen Accession

A migrant who claims he was beaten by Croatian police while attempting to cross the border to Croatia shows his injury at a factory hall turned migrants facility in Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Wednesday, March 13, 2019.
October 19, 2019 Dispatches

Bosnia Should Immediately Close Inhumane Migrant Camp

Relocate Migrants to Decent Accommodation Elsewhere

Migrants and asylum seekers in camp Vucjak where 2,500 people are now living in inhumane conditions without water, electricity, and medical care, Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina
October 18, 2019 Dispatches

Cuban Man Dies in US Immigration Custody

Latest Death in Dangerously Abusive System

Undated photograph of Richwood Correctional Center, Louisiana, United States.
October 18, 2019 Dispatches

Unaccompanied Migrant Children Unfairly on Trial in France

Children Sought Shelter in a Squat When No Shelter Was Provided to Them

Bâtiment du diocèse de Marseille, où vivent actuellement environ 320 personnes migrantes, dont des familles et environ 170 enfants migrants non accompagnés, Marseille, France, octobre 2019.

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