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February 13, 2017 News Release

North Korea: End Rampant Forced Child Labor

Submission to UN Children’s Committee Highlights Exploitation, Abuse

Kim Jong-un attends a performance of school children to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Korean Children's Union (KCU) in Pyongyang in June 2016.
February 13, 2017 Letter

Human Rights Watch Submission on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the Committee on the Rights of the Child

February 9, 2017 Dispatches

Did a Child Get Sick Farming the Tobacco in Your Cigarette?

Companies Shouldn’t Profit From Child Labor in Indonesia’s Tobacco Fields

Tell tobacco companies to STOP profiting off the backs of child workers in Indonesia.
February 9, 2017 Letter

Submission to the OECD on the draft Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct

February 8, 2017 News Release

UN: North Korea Exploiting Children

Forced Labor and Discrimination Will Top Child Rights Committee Briefing

NK CRC Presser 20170207
November 25, 2016 Commentary

Regulate small gold mines, too

Children pan for gold along the mercury-contaminated Bosigon River in Malaya, Camarines Norte.
October 12, 2016 Dispatches

US, Companies Should Protect Child Tobacco Workers

Poverty No Excuse for Dangerous Child Labor

16-year-old tobacco worker
September 23, 2016 Statement

Human Rights Watch Statement at 2016 Day of General Discussion: Children’s Rights and the Environment

September 6, 2016 Letter

Human Rights Watch Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Lebanon

August 31, 2016 Letter

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August 16, 2016 Statement

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

August 16, 2016 Commentary

The Forgotten Refugees: A Quarter Million Syrian Children Are Left Without an Education

Syrian refugee children on their way to school in Mount Lebanon.
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
July 22, 2016 Letter

Child Rights and the Environment – The Need For Action

Submission by Human Rights Watch to the Committee on the Rights of the Child

A child in Grassy Narrows First Nation, Ontario, Canada brushes her teeth with bottled water. Water on First Nations reserves is contaminated, inadequately treated or hard to access. April 14, 2016. Video Still (c) 2016 Human Rights Watch
July 14, 2016 News Release

Afghanistan: Hazardous Work for Children Widespread

Unenforced Law Puts Thousands at Risk of Injury, Death

Helal, 10, works as a brick maker at a brick kiln outside Kabul. He told Human Rights Watch that the brick mold is heavy and his hands hurt working with wet clay. Helal doesn’t go to school because he has to work.

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