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Letter to Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne

Re: Protecting Human Rights in Australia’s Foreign Policy

Dear Minister Payne, Congratulations on your reappointment as foreign minister. Human Rights Watch looks forward to working with you to make protection of human rights a strong pillar of Australia’s foreign policy. We attach a…
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Submission on the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief

February 2017

Around the world, religious freedom is under a sustained attack. In the Asia-Pacific region, there are governments that restrict the freedom to choose and practice a religion, that discriminate in law and policy against certain religious groups, that…
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Submission to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

  Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ (“the Committee”) for its Day of General Discussion on the right to education for persons with disabilities. Human Rights Watch…
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Dispatches: Hope for Kenya’s Lead Poisoning Victims

For five years, an illegal lead smelter has polluted a small Kenyan community, the toxic lead poisoning children and even killing smelter workers. As of yesterday, Kenya’s government is finally taking action. Celestine had worried for years about her son…
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Kenya: Fulfill Health Funding Pledges

Support Obstetric, HIV and Palliative Care

(Mombasa) - The Kenyan government should remove barriers to health care and make sure that there is no backsliding in access to care, Human Rights Watch said today in a submission to parliament. Parliament is currently debating the budget for 2011-2012.…
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Kenya: Submission to the Government on Health Budget

Call to Adequately Fund Obstetric, HIV and Palliative Care

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input into the drafting of the next budget (2011-2012) in Kenya. We conduct research and advocacy around the world on the linkages between human rights and health issues, including on access to health…
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Upholding the Right to Health

Preventing needless suffering of the terminally ill in India

In January, years of joint advocacy by Human Rights Watch and Indian palliative care groups culminated in the Medical Council of India recognizing palliative care as a specialization of medicine and approving an MD Palliative Care program. Over time, this…
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Sustaining Pressure on Kenya

Making a difference for children living with HIV/AIDS

James, like many HIV-positive orphans in Kenya, went to live with a relative when his parents died of AIDS. "He saw me as a burden," James told Juliane Kippenberg, a senior researcher in the Children's Rights Division, of the uncle who became his…
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Letter to the Prime Minister of India

Regarding the National Human Rights Commission Recommendations on Southern Chhattisgarh

Human Rights Watch urged the Indian government to take immediate steps to implement the recommendations of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) resulting from its recent inquiry on human rights abuses by parties to the conflict in southern…
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Letter to the National AIDS Control Organization of India

Sujata Rao Assistant Secretary and Director General National AIDS Control Organization Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of India   Dear Ms. Sujata Rao:   Thank you for meeting with Human Rights Watch in July to…
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Child Slaves Abandoned to India's Silk Industry

Burns, Beatings and 12-Hour Days for Bonded Children

(London, January 23, 2003) The Indian government is failing to protect the rights of hundreds of thousands of children who toil as virtual slaves in the country's silk industry, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The 85-page report, "…
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The Enron Corporation and Human Rights

The failure of the Enron Corporation, and its connections with U.S. government officials, has once again turned attention to the human rights abuses that plagued the Corporation's Dabhol power plant in India from 1992 to 1998. Human Rights Watch's 1999…

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