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April 13, 2022 News

Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child Concerning Canada

90th pre-sessional, 2022

We write in advance of the 90th pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child relating to Canada’s compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This supplementary submission is primarily based on research conducted from 2019 onward…

April 7, 2022 News

Submission to the Committee Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Punishment Ahead of the Review of the Republic of Iraq

73rd Session: March 2022

We write in advance of the 73rd session of the Committee’s review of the Republic of Iraq’s compliance with the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Punishment (henceforth referred to as the Convention Against Torture), which…

April 4, 2022 News

Legal Analysis of Agreements Allowing Immigration Detention in Canadian Provincial Jails

Summary Over the past five years, Canada has detained tens of thousands of people on immigration-related grounds, including children and refugee claimants. Immigration detainees are held exclusively under immigration law – not on criminal charges or…

February 16, 2022 News

Submission to the UN Open-ended Working Group on Ageing for the purpose of strengthening the protection of the human rights of older persons

Older people’s economic security

February 15, 2022 Guiding Question 3: What are challenges faced by older persons living in poverty, including the impact of intersectional discrimination and inequality based on age, gender and other grounds? Introduction This submission draws…

January 25, 2022 News

Human Rights Watch Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee in Advance of its Review of Iraq

This memorandum provides an overview of Human Rights Watch’s main concerns with respect to the human rights situation in Iraq, submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in advance of its review of Iraq in March 2022. We hope it will inform…

Iraqi soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint in Nineveh, Iraq. Friday Dec. 4, 2020.

November 5, 2021 News

Statement by Gabrielle Peters at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) on November 5, 2021

Hi. My name is Spring Hawes. I am here to rely to you the words of Gabrielle Peters. She says: It is an honour to speak here today. I live on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, known as Vancouver,…

November 5, 2021 News

Statement by Paul Caune at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) on November 5, 2021

Hi from Canada. My name is Paul Caune. I’m the executive director of Civil Rights Now which is a not-for-profit society that advocates for laws and to protect the civil rights of people with disabilities. I live in Canada, as I said, which is…

November 4, 2021 News

CSOs welcome political commitment to end international oil, gas, and coal finance by end of 2022, say others need to follow suit

(Glasgow) — Today at COP26, more than 20 countries and institutions, including the United States, Canada, Mali and Costa Rica, launched a joint statement committing to end direct international public finance for unabated coal, oil and gas by the…

Coal ash swirls on the surface of the Dan River in Danville, Virginia

November 2, 2021 News

Pressure on Turkmen Nationals in Turkey Must Be Stopped.

Their Rights and Freedoms Must Be Secured.

Statement by Nongovernmental Organizations 02 November 2021 We, representatives of nongovernmental organizations, would like to express our grave concern over the deteriorating situation for Turkmen migrants in Turkey – primarily those who…

June 30, 2021 News

Children's Rights and Alternative Care

Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child

Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child regarding Children’s Rights and Alternative Care June 30, 2021 Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Rights of the Child ahead of its upcoming Day…

June 8, 2021 News

Persons with Disabilities in the Context of Armed Conflict

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for his thematic report to the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly regarding the rights of persons with…

March 25, 2021 News

Joint Statement on Turkey: Authorities Should Seek Acquittal of All in the Saturday Mothers/People Trial

On 25 March, the first hearing takes place in the trial of 46 people charged with ‘refusal to disperse despite warning and use of force’ under Article 32/1 of Turkey’s Law on Meetings and Demonstrations (Law No. 2911) during the…

March 2, 2021 News

Submission on the Rights of the Indigenous Child

To the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Human Rights Watch makes this submission in response to the request for contributions for your study on the rights of the Indigenous child. This submission is based on research conducted by Human Rights Watch in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Indonesia, New…

December 9, 2020 News

Iraq: End Impunity for Murders

Release All Kidnapped and Detained Peaceful Activists

(Beirut) – Eight organizations released the following statement today calling on the Iraqi government to investigate the detention of activists and others since the start of the 2019 protests and to free all those held arbitrarily for peaceful…

Protesters marching in Al-Tahrir Square Tunnel in Baghdad, Iraq.

October 14, 2020 News

Turkey: Press Freedom Under Attack

(Berlin) – The following statement was issued by 11 organizations, including Human Rights Watch, following their visit to Turkey on October 6-9, 2020 to meet with journalists, officials, and others to assess the conditions for media freedom in…

September 3, 2020 News

Human Rights Watch Mourns Loss of Ali Ghandour

(Beirut) - Human Rights Watch mourns the passing of the philanthropist Ali Ghandour, whose support was critical to building our organization’s role in promoting and protecting human rights in Lebanon. He died on August 29, 2020, at the age of 89.…

April 17, 2020 News

Twenty-Four Rights-Groups Call on Turkey to Release All Those Arbitrarily Detained, Now At Risk of Covid-19

In the early hours of Tuesday 14 April, the Turkish Parliament passed a law which will lead to the release of up to 90,000 prisoners. However, it excludes scores of journalists, human rights defenders, politicians, lawyers and others arbitrarily…

March 5, 2020 News

Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child’s review of Canada

87th pre-sessional

We write in advance of the 87th pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child relating to Canada’s compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This submission is primarily based on research conducted between July 2015 and April…

March 4, 2020 News

Joint Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child’s Review of Canada

87th pre-session

We write in advance of the 87th pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child relating to Canada’s compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This submission focuses on the immigration detention of children in Canada. …

November 26, 2019 News

Consensus Starting Points

Framing a Canadian Discussion on Human Rights in the Global Operations and Supply Chains of Canadian Companies

Canadian businesses, civil society, labour and government are looking for the best path forward to prevent and eliminate adverse human rights impacts in the global operations and supply chains of companies based in Canada and / or doing business in Canada…

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