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September 29, 2020 News

Adoption of the outcome of the Universal Periodic Review of Turkey

Item 6 – 45th session of the UN Human Rights Council

It is disappointing to observe the Turkish government’s refusal, during its UPR, to acknowledge key issues that are at the core of the human rights crisis the country is facing today. If the Turkish government was serious about its engagement with the UPR…

March 13, 2020 News

Iraq Universal Periodic Review Outcome Statement

Item 6 Universal Periodic Review

Thank you, Madam President. Human Rights Watch welcomes the adoption of the outcome of the UPR on Iraq, which contained important recommendations to address human rights concerns. We take note of Iraq’s stated commitment to implement these…

June 30, 2018 News

Human Rights Watch’s public comment to the Tokyo Municipal Government on its “Outline: Tokyo metropolitan government regulation proposals to fulfill and uphold human rights values stated in the Olympic Charter ”

Human Rights Watch is a non-governmental organization that monitors and reports on human rights in over 90 countries around the world, including Japan. We have specialist teams that work on thematic issues, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender…

March 28, 2018 News

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Jordan

Third cycle of the UPR, 31st session

Since 2013, Jordan has passed new legislation to improve the lives of people with disabilities and end impunity for sexual assault. However, Jordanian authorities have also passed new laws that further limit freedom of expression, and freedoms of…

March 30, 2017 News

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Japan

28th session of the UPR

This submission highlights key areas of concern regarding Japan’s compliance with its international human rights obligations since its previous Universal Periodic Reviews (UPR) in 2012 and 2008: disability rights, discrimination and bullying based on…

A 20 year old Japanese woman who was bullied by her classmates in junior high school holds a notebook displaying the message...

February 24, 2017 News

Include LGBT Students in Basic Policy for the Prevention of Bullying

Human Rights Watch thanks the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) for the opportunity to give comment on revisions to the Basic Policy for the Prevention of Bullying. Human Rights Watch is an…

manga drawing by Taiji Utagawa of a transgender man with head down in the dark with three white spots leading into the distance

March 10, 2014 News

Iraq: UPR Submission March 2014

Human rights conditions in Iraq have steadily deteriorated as security has dramatically declined and sectarian tensions deepened. Thousands of Iraqis started demonstrating in 2011 to demand better services and an end to corruption, but security forces…

November 4, 2009 News

Third Party Intervention in the European Court of Human Rights on the case of Kaos GL v Turkey

Human Rights Watch with two other organizations, in this intervention argue that trends in pluralistic democracies and in the historical evolution of “public morality” indicate that a proper assessment of “public morality” with regards to any restriction…

October 28, 2008 News

Latin American, Caribbean States Blocking UN Effort to End Juvenile Executions

(New York, October 28, 2008) – Latin American and Caribbean governments should drop their opposition to UN efforts to end executions of juvenile offenders, Human Rights Watch said today. UN diplomats in New York are debating the juvenile death penalty as…

October 1, 2008 News

British Government's Diplomatic Assurances Policy

Human Rights Watch and JUSTICE Amicus Brief to the UK House of Lords

The British government has sought to deport terrorism or national security suspects in reliance on diplomatic assurances against torture from the men's home governments. In two important cases to be heard in October 2008-RB and U v. Secretary of State…

February 19, 2008 News

US: Supreme Court to Review Habeas Challenges of US Dual Citizens Held in Military Custody in Iraq

Geren v. Omar and Munaf v. Geren amicus brief

On March 25, 2008, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the case of two US citizens currently detained by the US military in Iraq, and whom the US wants to turn over to Iraqi authorities for further detention and proseuction. At issue is the…

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