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March 29, 2018 Report

Mauritania: Administrative Obstacles Keep Kids from School

Daunting Civil Registration Process Depresses Enrollment

Three of Mariama’s ten children: Khadijetou, Asya and Aicha who recently enrolled in primary school despite their lack of civil registration, thanks to the assistance of the Mauritanian NGO Women Heads of Family, Nouakchott, Mauritania, October 23, 2017.
March 23, 2018 Commentary

Open Classrooms to Children with Disabilities

School-age children in Lebanon.
March 22, 2018 News Release

Lebanon: Schools Discriminate Against Children with Disabilities

Make Schools Inclusive, End Reliance on Institutions

School-age children in Lebanon.
March 5, 2018 Statement

Endorsing Safe Schools Declaration important to protect children from horrors of armed conflict

Human Rights Watch statement to HRC panel on Protecting the Rights of the Child in Humanitarian Situations

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February 19, 2018 Statement

"We stand in solidarity with civil society in Hungary"

Joint letter by more than 250 NGOs expressing their "grave concern" over the shrinking space for civil society in Hungary

People protest in Heroes’ square against a new law that would undermine Central European University, a liberal graduate school of social sciences founded by U.S. financier George Soros in Budapest, Hungary, April 12, 2017.
February 1, 2018 Letter

Submission to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities concerning South Africa

9th pre-sessional working group

January 31, 2018 News Release

Millions of Children Denied Free Secondary Education

Governments, Donors Should Energize Support at Dakar Summit

Secondary school students in a classroom in southern Senegal.
January 25, 2018 Letter

Open Letter for President Macky Sall on Free Secondary Education in Senegal

January 23, 2018 Commentary

Shining a Spotlight on Hate Speech in Saudi Textbooks

Illustration of a sword made out of writing © 2017 Adam Maida for Human Rights Watch
January 13, 2018 News Release

India: Identification Project Threatens Rights

Ensure Access to Essential Services, Investigate Data Breach Claims

Village women stand in a queue to get themselves enrolled for the Unique Identification (UID) database system at Merta district in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan February 22, 2013.
January 11, 2018 Report

Syria: Children Under Attack in Damascus Enclave

UN Security Council Should Act on Eastern Ghouta Situation

Children walk through the rubble of the Tamayuz (“Excellence”) kindergarten in the town of Hamouriyeh after it was hit by a Syrian-Russian airstrike on November 8, 2017. © 2017 Private
January 2, 2018 Commentary

#MeToo is Important, But the War on Women is a Far, Far Bigger Deal

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December 21, 2017 Commentary

Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa Government Should Address Barriers to Education

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa officiates at the swearing in ceremony for his cabinet at State House in Harare, Zimbabwe, December 4, 2017. © 2017 Reuters
December 16, 2017 News Release

Pakistan: Government Shutters International Groups

Closures Without Recourse Will Harm Ordinary Pakistanis

201712asia_pakistan_ngos2 A flood victim carries a sack of flour on his head from a distribution point while heading to his village of Murad Chandio, some 35 km (22 miles) from Dadu in Pakistan's Sindh province January 26, 2011.
December 12, 2017 Commentary

Girls’ Clothes Never, Ever, Justify Sexual Abuse

Secondary school girls in a classroom in southern-Senegal.

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