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April 25, 2019 News

Ecuador: Memorandum on Abortion and International Human Rights Law

Washington, D.C., April 25, 2019 Elizabeth Cabezas Guerrero President of the National Assembly Quito – ECUADOR Subject: Memorandum on Abortion and International Human Rights Law Introduction Human Rights…

March 21, 2013 News

Mississippi Moving Forward

Progress and Challenges in State Response to HIV

Mississippi has one of the nation’s highest rates of HIV infection and deaths from AIDS. In March 2011, Human Rights Watch published Rights at Risk: State Response to HIV in Mississippi, which found the state’s response to HIV conflicted with human…

January 28, 2011 News

US: Misuse of the Material Witness Statute

Amicus Curiae brief filed with the Supreme Court

Human Rights Watch and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed an amicus brief in the case of Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd before the Supreme Court. The case challenges the US government's misuse of the material witness statute to investigate…

November 26, 2010 News

Southern Exposure

Human Rights and HIV in the Southern United States

I. Summary II. Introduction III. Human Rights in the South Poverty Lack of Access to Health Care Failure to Provide Comprehensive Sex and HIV/AIDS Education in Schools Criminalization of HIV Exposure…

January 14, 2010 News

Counterterrorism and Human Rights: A Report Card on President Obama’s First Year

Within days of taking office in January 2009, President Barack Obama issued executive orders that repudiated key elements of the Bush administration's abusive approach to fighting terrorism. By changing course in such a swift and high-profile way,…

December 16, 2009 News

Slow Movement

Protection of Migrants’ Rights in 2009

SummaryKey RecommendationsWomen Migrant Domestic WorkersMigrant Construction WorkersRight to HealthDiscriminatory Treatment of MigrantsTreatment of Migrants Crossing Borders2009 Human Rights Watch Reports on Migrants Summary Migrants drowning at sea…

August 28, 2007 News

US: Supreme Court to Review Restrictions on Access to Court for Guantanamo Detainees

Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. US amicus brief

On December 5, 2007, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a challenge to the Military Commissions Act of 2006. At stake are provisions in the law that prohibit the 330 Guantanamo Bay detainees – and any other non-citizen the president declares to…

March 14, 2007 News

Ensure Access to Condoms in US Prisons and Jails

The management of infectious disease in prisons is a human rights imperative as well as a matter of public health. Given the high level of HIV infections among those who enter prison, making condoms readily accessible to inmates is an effective and…

January 5, 2006 News

Brief of Amicus Curiae International Human Rights Organizations

Supreme Court of the United States, January 6, 2006

The detention and military commission systems created by the Executive to hold and try persons seized in the “war on terror” and implemented at the United States Naval Station in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (“Guantánamo”) violate the well-established norms of…

November 30, 2005 News

List of “Ghost Prisoners” Possibly in CIA Custody

List of Detainees Published by Human Rights Watch

The following is a list of persons believed to be in U.S. custody as "ghost detainees" -- detainees who are not given any legal rights or access to counsel, and who are likely not reported to or seen by the International Committee of the Red Cross. The…

February 15, 2005 News

U.S. Proposal for a Darfur Tribunal: Not an Effective Option to Ensure Justice

A U.N. Commission of Inquiry that the United States helped create recently found that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is the "single best mechanism" and the "only credible way" of ensuring justice for Darfur's victims. The U.N. Commission of…

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