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April 20, 2022 News

Egypt: Release Autopsy Report, Investigate Suspicious Death

Economist Died in Custody After Enforced Disappearance

(Beirut) – Egyptian authorities should urgently release the autopsy report and investigate the suspicious death of economist Ayman Hadhoud, Human Rights Watch said today. Hadhoud was forcibly disappeared on February 5 or 6, 2022, and died in the…

March 31, 2022 News

US: Congress Should Protect Child Farmworkers

Bill Would Close Loopholes in US Labor Law

(Washington, DC) – A bill reintroduced in the United States House of Representatives on March 31, 2022 by Representatives Lucille Roybal-Allard and Raúl Grijalva would protect child farmworkers in the US from danger, Human Rights Watch said today…

March 24, 2021 News

Egypt: Scholar Unjustly Detained

Vienna Academic Faces Abusive ‘Terrorism’ Charges

(Beirut) – Egyptian authorities should immediately release an anthropology master’s degree student at Central European University (CEU), or present evidence of actual criminal wrongdoing, Human Rights Watch said today. Police arrested the student,…

Ahmed Samir Santawy, an anthropology master’s student at Central European University (CEU) detained in February 2021.

March 12, 2021 News

Condemnation of Egypt’s Abuses at UN Rights Body

Overdue Action is a Step Forward

(Geneva, March 12, 2021) – Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from around the world expressed their strong support today for a joint declaration by UN member states condemning the human rights situation in Egypt, which was delivered at the 46th…

Egyptian security forces cordon off roads during curfew hours in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, March 29, 2020

February 9, 2021 News

Human Rights Council: Countries Should Take Bold Action on Egypt

Monitoring, Tough Message on Dire Rights Situation Long Overdue

(Geneva) – Egypt’s human rights community is facing “annihilation” by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government, more than 100 leading human rights organizations from around the world have warned today in a letter to foreign ministers. The groups…

Egyptian security forces have been involved in systematic abuses such as enforced disappearance and torture and have used abusive counterterrorism laws and measures to crush peaceful dissent. Egyptian security forces stand guard outside one of the entranc

January 27, 2021 News

US: Newly Released Files Show Fast-Track to Deportation

Reveal How Asylum Seekers at Border Were Short-Changed on Rights

(Washington) – Two years after the implementation of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as the “Remain in Mexico” program, newly released government records reveal US immigration agencies’ efforts in 2019 to rapidly deport thousands of…

Migrants seeking asylum wait in line with their case paperwork to meet with an attorney on Oct. 5, 2019, during a weekly trip by volunteers, lawyers, paralegals and interpreters to the migrant campsite outside El Puente Nuevo in Matamoros, Mexico.

October 6, 2020 News

Egypt: Police Beat Man to Death, Family Says

Relatives, Witnesses, Journalists Detained

Update: On the morning of October 6, Prosecutor General Hamada al-Sawi said in an official statement that he ordered journalist Basma Mostafa released pending investigation. Lawyers said she was ordered to pay bail of 2,000 EGP (US$128). Her release has…

Islam al-Australi, 26, who died in police custody.

November 13, 2017 News

US: Grant ISIS Suspect Access to Lawyer

Unnamed US Detainee Held 2 Months in Iraq

(Washington, DC) – The US government has been holding a US citizen suspected of fighting with the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) for two months in an undisclosed military prison in Iraq without access to legal counsel, Human Rights…

The American flag flies next to a statue of the scales of justice at United States Court House, February 6, 2002.

April 4, 2016 News

US: Releases Signal Progress on Guantanamo

Senegal Shows Leadership, Compassion in Accepting Libyan Detainees

(New York) – The United States government’s release of two Libyan detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to Senegal on April 4, 2016, shows meaningful progress on closing the prison, Human…

December 9, 2015 News

US: Tobacco Farms No Place for Teens

Government, Companies Fail to Provide Adequate Protection

(Washington, DC) – The United States government and tobacco companies are failing to protect teenage children from hazardous work in tobacco farming, Human Rights Watch said today, in a report and video. The 72-page report, “Teens of the…

December 1, 2015 News

Interview: Torture and the CIA

It is now widely acknowledged that after the 9/11 attacks in the US, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) began a global detention and interrogation program through which it tortured and abused prisoners. Yet the US government has failed to hold…

Illustration of the scales of justice replaced by two people shackled by their wrists and dangling in the air.

April 16, 2015 News

US: Ban Hazardous Child Labor in Tobacco Farming

Bills Before Congress Set 18 as Minimum Age

The US Congress should promptly enact legislation introduced on April 16, 2015 that would provide needed protections for children working in US tobacco farming, Human Rights Watch said today. Bills were introduced simultaneously in the Senate by Senator…

January 29, 2015 News

US: Reform Policing, Criminal Justice

High-Profile Cases Highlight Longstanding Problems

(Washington, DC) – State and local officials in the United States should address racial discrimination and police abuse in the criminal justice system that sparked widespread demonstrations last year, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2015…

December 12, 2014 News

US: Tobacco Company Bans Hiring Children Under 16

Altria Group Strengthens Its Child Labor Policy

The decision by the US tobacco company Altria Group to prohibit growers in its supply chain from hiring children under 16 could protect children working on US tobacco farms, Human Rights Watch said today. Altria Group – parent to three US tobacco…

November 5, 2014 News

US: Tobacco Giant’s Move Could Reduce Child Labor

Philip Morris International to Hold More US Farms to Higher Standards

The tobacco giant Philip Morris International has adopted a change in policy that could protect many child workers from danger on tobacco farms in the United States. Philip Morris International, which sells Marlboro among other leading cigarette brands,…

October 2, 2014 News

US: Tobacco Group Adopts Child Labor Protections

North Carolina Growers Advance Efforts to End Hazardous Work

(New York) – A prominent tobacco growers’ organization announced a new child labor policy that could help protect children from dangerous work on tobacco farms in the United States. The Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina, which represents more…

September 4, 2014 News

US: Tobacco Growers Act to Protect Child Workers

Burley Council Opposes Tobacco Work by Children Under 16 Worldwide

The decision by a leading US tobacco growers’ organization to oppose hiring children under 16 to work on tobacco farms is an important step toward ending this hazardous labor practice, Human Rights Watch said today. In July 2014, the Council for Burley…

July 25, 2014 News

US: Racial Discrimination Under Scrutiny

United Nations Committee to Review Record

(Washington, DC) – The United States has failed to comply with key protections under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), Human Rights Watch said today. The US, which ratified the treaty in 1994,…

June 18, 2014 News

US: Ensure Benghazi Suspect’s Rights

Rightly Charged in Federal Court, Not Guantanamo Military Commissions

(Washington, DC) – The United States government should ensure that Ahmed Abu Khatallah, apprehended for his alleged role in the September 11, 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is brought promptly before a judge and provided access to a…

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