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May 18, 2017 Dispatches

Migrant Children Denied an Education

Governments Should Change Laws, Policies Keeping Kids From School

Syrian Kurdish refugees
May 17, 2017 Letter

Submission for the 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report On Migration and Education

Syrian Kurdish refugees
May 2, 2017 Statement

Submission by Human Rights Watch on Australia to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

April 23, 2017 News Release

China: Don’t Force 8 Refugees Back to North Korea

Fleeing North Koreans Require Assistance and Urgent Protection

China: Don’t Force 8 Refugees Back to North Korea PHOTO
April 17, 2017 Dispatches

On Immigrant Policies, Unintended Consequences

Actually, US Exported the MS13 Gang to El Salvador

Members of the MS-13 gang are detained near the crime scene where two men, Jose Wilfredo Navidad and Nestor Alexander Rivera, were killed as they rode a motorcycle on their way to work, in San Salvador, El Salvador January 26, 2016.
April 4, 2017 Letter

Updated Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concerning Pakistan

March 7, 2017 Commentary

We Have Nothing Else to Sell but Our Teeth

Chechens Seeking Asylum in Poland

Asylum seekers in the arrivals hall at Brest train station, returned on the 13.46 pm train from Terespol, where their requests to seek asylum Poland were rejected. Brest, Belarus, December 7, 2016.
March 6, 2017 Commentary

Presidential elections should not let us forget the fate of migrant children from Calais

In times of populist and xenophobic election rhetoric, protecting the rights of young migrants can be an uphill battle

Unaccompanied children in the Calais migrant camp await interviews with the UK Home Office, October 22, 2016.
February 23, 2017 Dispatches

Children Stuck Behind Bars in Canada

Country’s Immigration Detention System Detains Entire Families Unnecessarily

Canadian children whose parents are in immigration detention can either accompany their parents in detention as de facto detainees, without the legal safeguards protecting children who are in formal detention, or be separated from their detained parents.
February 13, 2017 Commentary

Harassment Is Denying Refugee Children on Nauru an Education

Children sent to Nauru by Australia for “offshore processing,” August 2016. Parents and children reported that students from families of refugees and asylum seekers are frequently bullied by Nauruan students.
February 10, 2017 Dispatches

Britain Has Sullied Its Proud History of Helping Child Refugees

UK Government Ends Program to Protect Lone Children

A statue in front of London’s Liverpool Street Station commemorates the Kindertransport. A plaque at the base expresses “gratitude to the people of Britain for saving the lives of 10,000 unaccompanied mainly Jewish children who fled from Nazi persecution
February 3, 2017 Commentary

How Australia Can Solve Its Refugee Problem

Held by Australia on Nauru for three years, a refugee girl chooses freedom as what she most needs, August 2016.
January 24, 2017 Statement

Human Rights Watch Submission on Nauru to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

January 23, 2017 Dispatches

Syrian Refugee Kids Still Out of School in Turkey

Biggest Barrier to Children’s Education is Parents Out of Work

Maya, 9, reads a school textbook in her family home. She enjoys attending her local public school in izmir, on turkey’s west coast, where she is one of four Syrian students in her class.
January 19, 2017 Commentary

EU Cannot Copy Australia's Offshore Asylum Model

2016-08-crd-nauru-child protest

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