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“I Always Remember That Day”

Access to Services for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region

The 89-page report, “‘I Always Remember That Day’: Access to Services for Gender-Based Violence Survivors in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region,” documents the serious health impact, trauma, and stigma experienced by rape survivors ages 6 to 80 since the beginning of the armed conflict in Tigray in November 2020. Human Rights Watch highlighted the human cost of the Ethiopian government’s effective siege of the region, which has prevented an adequate and sustained response to survivors’ needs and the rehabilitation of the region’s shattered healthcare system.

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  • "All The Men Have Gone"

    War Crimes in Kenya’s Mt. Elgon Conflict

    This 52-page report documents war crimes committed by a militia group, the Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF) and by Kenyan security forces responding to the crisis in Mt. Elgon, western Kenya. The investigation found that since 2006 the SLDF has terrorized thousands, killing and torturing hundreds of people.

  • Law and Reality

    Progress in Judicial Reform in Rwanda

    This 113-page report examines changes to the judicial system adopted over the past four years.

  • Neighbors In Need

    Zimbabweans Seeking Refuge in South Africa

    This 119-page report examines South Africa’s decision to treat Zimbabweans merely as voluntary economic migrants and its failure to respond effectively to stop the human rights abuses and economic deprivation in Zimbabwe that cause their flight and to address their needs in South Africa.

  • Crackdown in Khartoum

    Mass Arrests, Torture, and Disappearances since the May 10 Attack

    This 28-page report documents Sudanese government repression in Khartoum following the May 10 attack by the Darfur-based rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). Eyewitnesses suggest that more than 60 civilians were killed during the fighting.

  • Collective Punishment

    War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in the Ogaden area of Ethiopia’s Somali Region

    This 130-page report documents a dramatic rise in unchecked violence against civilians since June 2007, when the Ethiopian army launched a counterinsurgency campaign against rebels who attacked a Chinese-run oil installation.

  • “Bullets for Each of You”

    State-Sponsored Violence since Zimbabwe’s March 29 Elections

    On March 29, 2008, Zimbabweans cast their ballots in presidential, parliamentary, senatorial and local council elections, the first synchronized elections since changes to the constitution in 2007.

  • “Bullets for Each of You”

    State-Sponsored Violence since Zimbabwe's March 29 Elections

    The campaign of violence and repression in Zimbabwe, aimed at destroying opposition and ensuring that Robert Mugabe is returned as president in runoff elections on June 27, 2008 is claiming thousands of victims as the government at national and local levels actively, systematically and methodically targets Movement for D

  • "The Best School"

    Student Violence, Impunity, and the Crisis in Côte d’Ivoire

    This 98-page report documents how, in the last several years, members of FESCI have been implicated in attacks on opposition ministers, magistrates, journalists, and human rights organizations, among others.

  • “They Shot at Us as We Fled”

    Government Attacks on Civilians in West Darfur in February 2008

    This 35-page report documents how attacks on several towns in West Darfur’s “northern corridor” were a vicious reprise of Khartoum’s “scorched earth” counterinsurgency tactics.

  • “Every Morning They Beat Me”

    Police Abuses in Burundi

    This 42-page report documents 21 cases of beatings and torture of civilians carried out in October 2007 by a special reserve unit known as Rapid Mobile Intervention Group (Groupement Mobile d’Intervention Rapide, GMIR) in Muramvya province.

  • Five Years On

    No Justice for Sexual Violence in Darfur

    This 44-page report documents the widespread prevalence of sexual violence throughout Darfur, and details incidents of violent rape perpetrated on girls as young as 11 years old. The government of Sudan has failed to rein in the abuse, much of which is carried out by their own soldiers and allied militia.

  • Politics as War

    The Human Rights Impact and Causes of Post-Election Violence in Rivers State, Nigeria

    This 55-page report is based on a two-week research mission that included interviews with victims, politicians, gang leaders, and law enforcement officials.

  • All Over Again

    Human Rights Abuses and Flawed Electoral Conditions in Zimbabwe’s Coming General Elections

    In this 59-page report, Human Rights Watch documents how the government and the ruling party ZANU-PF, in the run up to the 2008 elections, have engaged in widespread intimidation of the opposition; have restricted freedom of association and assembly; and have manipulated food and farming equipment distribution to gain polit

  • Ballots to Bullets

    Organized Political Violence and Kenya's Crisis of Governance

    This 81-page report documents how hundreds of lives were lost due to organized political and ethnic violence sparked by irregularities in the December 2007 presidential elections.