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VideoIraq: Not a Homecoming vignette 3
Language English هجّرت القوات العراقية قسرا 125 عائلة على الأقل، ينظر إليها على أنها مرتبطة بـ داعش، إلى مخيم وهدمت بعض منازلها كأحد أشكال العقاب الجماعي. ...
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News ReleaseUzbekistan: Release Retired Diplomat
Retired Official Tortured in Detention, Family Members Harassed
Expand Kadyr Yusupov with his family in Vienna, 2008, during a stint as head of Uzbekistan's mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). © 2018 Yusupov Family (Tashkent) – Uzbek authorities should immediately release a retired Uzbek diplomat charged with ...
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VideoIraq: Not a Homecoming vignette 9
Language English “Reem,” was living in a camp in Baghdad where she had access to specialist medical facilities to take care of her two children with disabilities. In February 2018, Iraqi forces forcibly evicted them from that camp, but other soldiers blocked her from returning home. Now she is ...
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VideoIraq: Not a Homecoming vignette 8
Language English “Ibrahim,” is part of a group of 74 families from a village in Salah al-Din governorate who had been living in a camp in Baghdad since they fled their homes in 2014. In February 2018, Iraqi forces forcibly evicted them but instead of allowing them to go back into their village, ...
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Community UpdateAlarmierender Anstieg des Antisemitismus in Europa
Am 24. Mai wurde ein jüdischer Friedhof in Bordeaux, Frankreich, verwüstet. Am 26. Mai warnte der Antisemitismusbeauftragte der Bundesregierung jüdische Männer davor, in der Öffentlichkeit die Kippa zu tragen, weil Juden in Deutschland immer häufiger angegriffen würden. Am 28. Mai leitete die ...
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VideoIraq: Not a Homecoming vignette 1
Language English Tal Abu Jarad, a village in Salah al-Din governorate, was devastated by fighting between ISIS and Iraqi forces, with most homes destroyed after families fled the area in 2016. Authorities in Tikrit forced 60 families to return against their will in 2018, despite ISIS still being ...
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StatementSubmission to UN Human Rights Committee's Review of Tajikistan
126th session, June 2019
This memorandum provides an overview of Human Rights Watch’s main concerns with respect to the human rights situation in Tajikistan, submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (“the Committee”) in advance of its pre-sessional review of Tajikistan in July 2019. We hope it will inform the ...
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News ReleaseSenegal: Unchecked Abuses in Quranic Schools
President Sall should use second term to protect talibé children
Expand Two talibé children approach cars to beg in the streets of Dakar, Senegal, as viewed from a car mirror, June 21, 2018. © 2018 Lauren Seibert/Human Rights Watch Severe abuse, exploitation, and neglect of children known as talibés continue at alarming rates in many of Senegal ’s Quranic ...
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DispatchesA Bloody Ramadan in Thailand’s Deep South
Insurgents Bomb Crowded Market
Expand Thai security forces inspects the scene of a bomb attack at a market in Pattani province on May 27, 2019. ©2019 Khaosod English When Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) insurgents detonated a motorcycle bomb at the crowded Bor Thong Market in Thailand’s Pattani province on May 27, they could ...
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CommentaryThe disastrous roll-out of the UK's digital welfare system is harming those most in need
Expand Campaigners outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London supporting the legal challenge against the Government's Universal Credit welfare scheme. © 2019 Stefan Rousseau/Press Association via AP Images The UK government has embarked on an ambitious strategy to digitise and automate the ...
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Letter
MSC's Revised Chain of Custody Certification Fails to Adequately Address Forced Labor and Child Labor in Seafood Supply Chains
Public Statement from Human Rights and Environmental Organizations
As leading labor, human rights, and environmental organizations and members of the Thai Seafood Working Group, we are deeply concerned that the Marine Stewardship Council’s new Chain of Custody Certification will not be effective in identifying, preventing, or protecting seafood workers from labor ...
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LetterNeed to Treat Children Differently from Adults in the Federal Criminal Justice System
Human Rights Coalition Expresses Support for H.R. 1949, H.R. 1950, and H.R. 1951
Dear Representative: On behalf of Human Rights for Kids, the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, the Campaign for Youth Justice, and the additional undersigned organizations, we write to express our full support of H.R. 1949, H.R. 1950, and H.R. 1951 by Congressman Bruce Westerman (R-AR), ...
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CommentaryWhat Life is Like When Abortion is Banned
Expand Graffiti promoting legal abortion and women’s rights on a street in central Tegucigalpa, Honduras where public protests and demonstrations often take place. Vivas nos queremos (“We want to live”) is a slogan used in campaigns across Latin America to end violence against women. © 2019 Amy ...
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News ReleaseAward for Disability Rights Work
Access Living Honors Human Rights Watch
Français Expand A child in a Russian state orphanage for children with disabilities. © 2011 Gordon Welters/laif /Redux © 2011 Gordon Welters/laif /Redux (Chicago) – A leading disability rights organization will award Human Rights Watch its annual Lead On! Award on June 10, 2019, in recognition of ...
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ReportNigeria: Widespread Violence Ushers in President’s New Term
Investigate Attacks, Ensure Justice
Expand Nigeria’s military guard the campaign headquarters of President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, Nigeria, Feb. 25, 2019. © AP Photo/Jerome Delay (Abuja) – The Nigeria elections in 2019 that brought President Muhammadu Buhari back into office for a second term were marred by political violence, ...
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DispatchesUK Should Get Serious About Defending Human Rights
Foreign Office Annual Rights Report Pulls Punches on Saudi Arabia and Yemen
Expand The house of Judge Yahya Muhammad Rubaid in Sanaa was hit in an airstrike on January 25, 2016, killing the judge and four members of his family. © 2016 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch The UK paints itself as a global champion on human rights, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s annual ...