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Asia

August 14, 2019 News Release

Hong Kong: Police Should Exercise Restraint
Asia

June 29, 2019 Commentary

Hong Kong Ruling Strengthens Rights Protection on Same-Sex Relations

Philippe LeDoux
International Law Fellow, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program

Published In: JURIST
Asia

June 28, 2019 News Release

Hong Kong: Independently Investigate Police Use of Force

News

June 12, 2019 News Release

Hong Kong: Police Shouldn’t Use Excessive Force
June 6, 2019 News Release

Hong Kong: Extradition Changes Threaten Civil Society
April 26, 2019 Commentary

Amid China’s Storm, Hong Kong Holds Fast to Its Umbrella

Maya Wang
China Senior Researcher

Published In: The Globe and Mail
March 31, 2019 News Release

Hong Kong: Scrap Proposed Extradition Changes
November 14, 2018 News Release

Hong Kong: Drop Case Against ‘Umbrella 9’
October 25, 2018 Dispatches

Hong Kong’s Heightened Crackdown on Dissent

Racqueal Legerwood
Associate, Asia Division
September 24, 2018 News Release

China: Hong Kong Party Banned
July 10, 2018 News Release

Hong Kong: LGBT-Themed Books Restricted in Libraries
June 27, 2018 News Release

Hong Kong: Freedoms Rapidly Deteriorating
June 25, 2018 Commentary

Why Canada Should Take in Snowden-Linked Asylum-Seeker

Farida Deif
Canada Director

Published In: Ottawa Citizen
March 19, 2018 Dispatches

Insult China’s National Anthem at Your Peril

Maya Wang
China Senior Researcher
February 6, 2018 News Release

Hong Kong: Student Leaders’ Sentences Overturned
September 27, 2017 Dispatches

Three Years After Umbrella Movement, Hong Kongers Soldier On

Maya Wang
China Senior Researcher
August 18, 2017 Commentary

Political Prisoners in Hong Kong

Maya Wang
China Senior Researcher

Published In: ChinaFile
August 15, 2017 News Release

Hong Kong: Quash Convictions of Student Leaders
July 17, 2017 News Release

Canada: Expedite Snowden-Linked Asylum Cases
June 28, 2017 News Release

Hong Kong: Chief Executive Should Defend Autonomy
June 28, 2017 Letter

Letter from HRW to HK Chief Executive Carrie Lam
May 15, 2017 News Release

Hong Kong Rejects Asylum for Snowden Helpers
April 27, 2017 News Release

Hong Kong: Surge in Political Prosecutions
March 27, 2017 Dispatches

Hong Kong’s Non-Election

Maya Wang
China Senior Researcher
November 4, 2016 News Release

Hong Kong: China Interferes in Judiciary’s Independence

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World Humanitarian Day Honors Women: Daily Brief

Daily Brief

August 19, 2019

Women humanitarians celebrated on tenth anniversary of World Humanitarian Day; women largely sidelined by new Sudanese government; former Sudanese president in court; Iranian women arrested for thwarting stadium ban; FIFA needs to act more quickly in case of abuse against Afghan women; little justice for rape survivors in England and Wales; new Australian rule for nursing homes puts older people at risk of harm; UN launches inquiry into hospital bombings in Syria; Hong Kong gearing up for more protests; and Polish Grandmas fight hatred.