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March 30, 2022 News

Universal Periodic Review Submission on Tunisia

Fourth Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review, 41st Session

Since Tunisia’s last Universal Period Review (UPR), serious human rights violations, including torture, violence against women, violations of LGBT rights, lack of accountability for past human rights violations, arbitrary house arrests, and travel…

Tunisians take part in a rally marking the ninth anniversary of the 2011 uprising, at Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis on January 14, 2020.

March 19, 2021 News

Amicus Curiae on the Right to Freedom from Gender-Based Harassment and Violence

Honorable Antonio José Lizarazo Ocampo Justice of the Constitutional Court of Colombia Palacio de Justicia Bogotá, D.C. – COLOMBIA Case: 8028404 Subject: Human Rights Watch amicus curiae brief Ximena Casas and Nisha Varia, on behalf of…

July 10, 2020 News

Human Rights Watch Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Oman

July 2020

Freedom of Expression Oman’s Basic Law guarantees freedom of expression, but restricts this right based on “the conditions and circumstances defined by the Law,” and prohibits any publication that “leads to public discord, violates the…

May 30, 2018 News

Colombia: Amicus Curiae on Access to Abortion

Honorable Cristina Pardo Schlesinger Justice of the Constitutional Court of Colombia Rapporteur of Case T-6.612.909 Case: T-6.612.909 Subject: Human Rights Watch amicus curiae brief …

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…

July 18, 2008 News

Human Rights Watch Amicus Brief on Juvenile Detention

Argument to the Supreme Court of Argentina on International Standards on Juvenile Detention

Human Rights Watch filed an amicus brief in the case of García Méndez, Emilio and Musa, Laura Cristina s/case No. 7537 that is now before the Supreme Court of Argentina. We argue that the system by which Argentine judges authorize the detention of…

June 5, 2008 News

Additional Submission on US Compliance with the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict

This submission by Human Rights Watch supplements the November 2007 submission by the US Campaign to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. It reflects new information and developments related to the United States and children involved in armed conflict between…

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…

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…

May 23, 2004 News

Jama v. INS: Keyse G. Jama, Petitioner, v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent

Supreme Court of the United States, No. 03-674, 05/24/04

On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Brief Amici Curiae of International Human Rights Organizations and International Law Professors in Support of the Petitioner "When a country lacks a functioning central…

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