Barbara Boxer, a Democrat senator from California, who has been a prominent advocate for women in Afghanistan, questioned Afghan President Hamid Karzai when he appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the last week of February. She…

While attending a conference in Rome on the "Human Rights Dimensions of Trafficking in Persons," Widney Brown, advocacy director for Human Rights Watch's Women's Rights division, met with officials from the Italian Foreign Ministry to express concern…

On March 6, Human Rights Watch released a detailed commentary on Greece's draft anti-trafficking legislation based on our research published in July 2001. In part as a result of criticism from HRW and local NGOs, the government of Greece delayed sending…