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November 25, 2019 News Release

Nepal: 13 Years On, No Justice for Conflict Victims
Law, Commissions to Investigate Atrocities Fail International Standards

Expand Activists observe a minute of silence in memory of the people who disappeared during the decade-long armed Maoist insurgency against the now-toppled monarchy to observe the International Day of the Disappeared in Kathmandu, Nepal August 30, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (Geneva) Nepal has made no ...
November 25, 2019 News Release

Egypt: Independent News Website Targeted
Security Forces Raid Mada Masr Headquarters, Arrest Journalists

العربية Expand A screenshot of Mada Masr's homepage on November 26, 2019. © Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – Egyptian security forces raided the headquarters of the Cairo-based independent news website Mada Masr on November 24, 2019, as part of the government’s suppression of media freedom in ...
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 Dispatches

Russian Official Invokes ‘Foreign Agent’ Law to Bar Homeless Shelter
Moscow District Council Deputy Finds New Use for Law Used to Silence Government Critics

Expand Free-of-charge laundry for the homeless in St. Petersburg, Russia. © Nochlezhka In past years, Russia’s authorities have frequently resorted to the pernicious “foreign agents” law to silence critics of the government. Now a Moscow official is trying to leverage this law against a homeless ...
November 25, 2019 Dispatches

Holding Companies Accountable for US Detention Abuses
New Petition Asks ICE Contract to Review Policies Amid Rights Concerns

May 5, 2017 Video Video: Substandard Medical Care in US Immigration Detention New evidence has emerged of dangerously subpar medical care in United States immigration detention at a time when the Trump administration is seeking to increase its use. On November 25, a group of activists delivered a ...
November 25, 2019 Dispatches

US Should Cease Returning Asylum Seekers to Mexico
Trump Administration’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program Denies Rights to Asylum Seekers

Expand Migrants seeking asylum wait in line with their case paperwork on October 5, 2019, during a weekly trip by volunteers, lawyers, paralegals and interpreters to the migrant campsite outside El Puente Nuevo in Matamoros, Mexico. © 2019 Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald via AP At a November ...
November 25, 2019 News Release

Israel Expels Human Rights Watch Director Today
Group Will Keep Documenting Abuses by All Parties

Expand HRW's Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir in Ramallah, May 2018. © 2018 AFP (Jerusalem) – Human Rights Watch will keep documenting abuses despite the Israeli government’s expulsion of the Israel and Palestine director of Human Rights Watch on November 25, 2019. The deportation ...
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 25, 2019 Letter

Joint Letter on UK War Crimes Cover-Up Allegations

20 November 2019 BBC Panorama / Sunday Times investigation We write to you following the BBC Panorama and Sunday Times joint investigation which found evidence the Ministry of Defence and some elements within the Armed Forces have repeatedly covered up evidence of war crimes in Iraq and ...
October 31, 2019 Report

“They’ve Shot Many Like This”
Abusive Night Raids by CIA-Backed Afghan Strike Forces

Language English Summary Through much of 2019, the United States government and Taliban insurgents were engaged in negotiations toward an agreement that could lead to the eventual withdrawal of US forces in Afghanistan. Those negotiations officially halted, at least temporarily, on September 7, ...
November 25, 2019 Dispatches

Toward a Landmine-Free World
Conference Marks 20 Years of the Mine Ban Treaty

Expand Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy, sitting, looks toward Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams, far left, after signing the Mine Ban Treaty in Ottawa on December 3, 1997. © 2019 AP Photo/Tom Hanson Today the Fourth Review Conference of the international Mine Ban Treaty opens in ...
November 24, 2019 News Release

Australia: Prevent Restraint in Aged Care
Ban Use of Drugs to Control Older People with Dementia

October 8, 2019 Video Video: Nursing Homes in Australia Routinely Sedate Older People Monica has dementia and lives with her husband in a facility near Melbourne. Her son realized she was being given a cocktail of drugs when he asked to see her charts. After extensive negotiation, Monica’s doctor ...
November 24, 2019 Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

Trending rights tweets this week: Kidnapped Hong Kong bookseller wins prestigious free speech award; Internet shutdown and security forces directly targeting protestors in Iran; Bolivia’s interim government adopts abusive measures; and happy birthday to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. ...
November 24, 2019 Commentary

Global Clothing Brands Should Respond to the #MeToo Mandate

Expand Garment workers travel on private buses organized by their factory in Cambodia. When women do overtime work but lack safe transportation back home, it can expose them to greater risks of sexual assault at night. © 2014 Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch It has been two years since #MeToo went ...
November 25, 2019 Community Update

DR Kongo: Entwicklungsbanken verwickelt in Menschenrechtsverletzungen durch Palmölunternehmen

(London) – Vier europäische Entwicklungsbanken finanzieren ein Palmölunternehmen in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo, das Arbeiterrechte verletzt und giftige Abfälle verkippt, so Human Rights Watch in einem heute veröffentlichten Bericht. Das Unternehmen Feronia hält am 25. November 2019 in London ...
November 19, 2019 Commentary

The West Wouldn’t Hold Myanmar Accountable for Ethnic Cleansing. Now a Small African Nation is Stepping in

Expand Rohingya refugees gather in an open field at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the Myanmar military’s ethnic cleansing campaign in Rakhine State on August 25, 2019. © 2019 K M Asad/LightRocket via Getty Images Watch out ...
October 29, 2019 Report

“Maximum Pressure”
US Economic Sanctions Harm Iranians’ Right to Health

Language English فارسی Summary In May 2018, the Trump administration formally withdrew from the international nuclear agreement with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), agreed upon by the Obama administration in July 2015. Over the next 120 days, until November 5, 2018, ...
November 18, 2019 Statement

Human Rights Watch Briefing Note for the Eighteenth Session of the International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties
November 2019

Court,” March 15, 2019, https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/59733/statement-spokesperson-international-criminal-court_en ...
October 28, 2019 Report

“As Long as I am Quiet, I am Safe”
Threats to Independent Media and Civil Society in Tanzania

Language English Summary Since President John Magufuli came to power in 2015, Tanzania has seen a sharp backslide in respect for basic freedoms of association and expression, undermining both media freedoms and civil society. While some restrictive trends may have predated his term, they have ...
November 22, 2019 Dispatches

No Justice a Decade After Philippines Massacre
Duterte Administration Embraces Lawless Political Culture

Expand Philippine journalists light candles for those killed in the 2009 massacre of 58 people in Maguindanao province in southern Philippines, November 23, 2015, Manila, Philippines. © 2015 AP Photo/Bullit Marquez Ten years ago, news of the Maguindanao Massacre in the southern Philippines shook ...