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November 25, 2019 Report

A Dirty Investment
European Development Banks’ Link to Abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Palm Oil Industry

Language English Summary This report examines the responsibility of four European development banks for abusive practices on oil palm plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo. These banks – BIO, from Belgium; CDC Group, from the United Kingdom; DEG ...
November 29, 2019 Commentary

Targeting Environmental Activists With Counterterrorism Measures is an Abuse of the Law

Expand A campaign poster showing environmental activists Taher Ghadirian, Niloufar Bayani, Amirhossein Khaleghi, Houman Jokar, Sam Rajabi, Sepideh Kashani, Morad Tahbaz and Abdolreza Kouhpayeh, who have been detained since early 2018 in Iran. An Iranian court in November 2019 sentenced Bayani, ...
November 25, 2019 Video

DR Congo: Development Banks Linked to Palm Oil Abuses

Language English Français (London, November 25, 2019) – Four European development banks are financing a palm oil company in the Democratic Republic of Congo that is violating workers’ rights and dumping untreated waste, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The company, Feronia, will ...
November 28, 2019 Commentary

Targeted: Counterterrorism Measures Take Aim at Environmental Activists
Civil Society Input Crucial to ‘COP25’ Climate Change Summit

COP24 en Katowice, Polonia, el 8 de diciembre de 2018. © 2015 AFP/Laurent Emmanuel On November 29, 2019, ...
November 25, 2019 Interview

Interview: A Toxic Mix of Abuses on Congo’s Oil Palm Plantations
How European Development Banks Fail the Very People They Claim to Assist

Why did you focus your research on these oil palm plantations? These plantations provide jobs for many people. But their workers are being underpaid and exposed to unhealthy working conditions. The European development banks that finance these plantations see their mission as fostering sustainable ...
November 25, 2019 News Release

DR Congo: Development Banks Linked to Palm Oil Abuses
Failed Oversight Enables Labor, Environmental Harm

(London) – Four European development banks are financing a palm oil company in the Democratic Republic of Congo that is violating workers’ rights and dumping untreated waste, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The company, Feronia, will ...
November 22, 2019 News Release

Iran: Environmentalists Sentenced
Unfair Trial; Continued Due Process Violations

فارسی Français العربية Expand A campaign poster showing environmental activists, Taher Ghadirian, Niloufar Bayani, Amirhossein Khaleghi, Houman Jokar, Sam Rajabi, Sepideh Kashani, Morad Tahbaz and Abdolreza Kouhpayeh, who have been in detention for six months. © 2018 #anyhopefornature Campaign ...
November 20, 2019 Commentary

Voting for Human Rights: A Guide for 2020

What does it mean to be a human rights voter? Support candidates who want the government to adopt and enforce laws that promote and protect human rights. This means candidates who defend people from abusive systems, officials, individuals, and corporations, who support equal protection of the law, ...
November 19, 2019 Commentary

Young Climate Activists’ UN Complaint Against France

Expand Youth activists from all continents bring a complaint to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on climate change. @Michael Rubenstein for Earthjustice A 16-year-old boy named David is one of a group of children lodging a UN complaint against France and four other countries for ...
October 23, 2019 Report

The Human Right to Water
A Guide for First Nations Communities and Advocates

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Pages/TreatyBodies.aspx. Case Study: Flint, Michigan, USA In April 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan, under state-appointed ... http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/WhatareHumanRights.aspx. [3] Chiefs of Ontario, “Great Lakes as Living Entities,” Resolution 26/19, June 2019. [4] New ... https://www.parliament.nz/en/get-involved ...
November 18, 2019 Dispatches

The Young Activists Fighting Lead Pollution in Zambia
Group’s Video Appeal for Government Clean-up and Healthcare

Expand View of a former mine pit, now flooded, at the old mine site in Kabwe. In the foreground is an area where small-scale miners still work today. © 2019 Diane McCarthy for Human Rights Watch A new video just published by Zambian environmental ...
October 25, 2019 Dispatches

Study Finds Deterioration in US Air Quality
Increased Pollution Linked to Nearly 10,000 Deaths

简体中文 Expand The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, shown obscured in smoke in November 2018, after the disastrous Camp Fire occurred north of Sacramento. US Interior Secretary at the time, Ryan Zinke, said wildfires in California in 2018 released roughly the same amount of carbon emissions as ...
October 25, 2019 Dispatches

UN Criticized for Failing to Live Up to Its Own Values in Kosovo
Lead Poisoning Victims Await Justice, Compensation

简体中文 September 7, 2017 Video Video: UN Should Compensate Kosovo Lead Poisoning Victims The United Nations’ failure to compensate victims of widespread lead poisoning at UN-run camps in Kosovo has left affected families struggling to care for sick relatives who were exposed to the contamination. ...
October 23, 2019 News Release

Canada: Make First Nations Water Supply a Priority
New Tools for Communities to Renew Push for Rights

Expand Aerial photo of the vast freshwater resources in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Ontario, Canada. October 2018. © 2019 Human Rights Watch (Toronto) – Canada’s new government should make addressing the lack of safe drinking water in many First Nations communities in Canada an urgent priority, Chiefs ...
October 22, 2019 Commentary

Why Children in Kabwe, Zambia, Still Suffer Lead Poisoning
International Lead Poisoning Week Highlights Need for Action

Expand Three girls play the game isolo on the ground in the lead-affected township of Waya in Kabwe. Soil is the main source of lead exposure in Kabwe. © 2018 Zama Neff/Human Rights Watch I met “David” and his brothers in the dusty township of Chowa in ...
October 10, 2019 News Release

Indonesia: Investigate Environmental Lawyer’s Death
Golfrid Siregar Helped to Protect Sumatra’s Rainforests, Villagers

Français Expand Golfrid Siregar, an environmental lawyer, died on October 6, 2019, three days after his unconscious body was found in Medan, North Sumatra. © Roy Lumbangaol/Walhi (Jakarta) – Indonesian authorities should immediately and impartially investigate the death of an environmental ...
October 8, 2019 Statement

Children’s Right to a Healthy Environment
Submission by Human Rights Watch to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Expand Three girls play the game isolo on the ground in the lead-affected township of Waya in Kabwe. Soil is the main source of lead exposure in Kabwe. © 2018 Zama Neff/Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch appreciates the opportunity to provide a ...
August 23, 2019 Report

“We Have to Be Worried”
The Impact of Lead Contamination on Children’s Rights in Kabwe, Zambia

Language English Summary More than one third of the population of Kabwe, Zambia— over 76,000 people—live in lead-contaminated townships. Studies estimate that half of the children in these areas have elevated blood lead levels that warrant medical ...
October 2, 2019 Statement

Comments Delivered at EPA Public Hearing Regarding Proposed Changes to 2015 Coal Combustion Residuals Final Rule

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the proposed changes to the Coal Combustion Residual Rule. My name is Sarah Saadoun and I’m a researcher at Human Rights Watch, a non-profit independent organization that investigates and reports on human rights abuses in 90 countries around the world, ...
October 2, 2019 News Release

Canada: Blind Eye to First Nation Water Crisis
Neskantaga Community Needs Compensation, Assistance

Expand Roxanne Moonias, mother to an infant with a chronic illness, demonstrates one of the steps she takes to ensure her baby is not exposed to contaminants in the water. Roxanne lives in Neskantaga First Nation and says that it takes her an hour each time to properly wash and rinse his bottles. ...