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Europe/Central Asia

May 6, 2015 Report

Greece: Police Abusing Marginalized People
United States

As we approach LGBT Pride weekend, it is worth noting that San Francisco's leadership in fighting the HIV epidemic is alive and well. Under a new policy, San Francisco law enforcement no longer will use condoms as evidence of misdemeanor prostitution charges.

June 28, 2013 Commentary

San Francisco No Longer Criminalizes Condoms

Megan McLemore
Senior Researcher, Health and Human Rights

Published In: San Francisco Chronicle
Asia

May 14, 2013 News Release

China: End Violence Against Sex Workers

News

April 22, 2013 Statement

Memorandum of Support from Human Rights Watch for Bill: S1379/A2736
April 4, 2013 Impact

New Police Practices Help Fight HIV Epidemic
July 19, 2012 News Release

US: Police Practices Fuel HIV Epidemic
July 16, 2012 Commentary

Distributing, Then Confiscating, Condoms

Megan McLemore
Senior Researcher, Health and Human Rights

Published In: New York Times
July 20, 2010 News Release

Cambodia: Sex Workers Face Unlawful Arrests and Detention
January 29, 2009 Commentary

US Women Also Have Human Rights Issues

Marianne Mollmann

Published In: Huffington Post
December 17, 2008 Letter

Open Letter to the Government of Macedonia Regarding Criminal Prosecution of Alleged Sex Workers

May 6, 2015

Greece: Police Abusing Marginalized People

Target the Homeless, Drug Users, Sex Workers in Athens

Daily Brief

February 15, 2019

UN investigation needed into mass internment of an estimated one million Turkic Muslims; US still rejects regulations preventing ‘Killer Robots’; new wave of anti-LGBT persecution in Chechnya; post-election killings test for new DR Congo president; 300 babies die in war zones every day; growing concern for jailed women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia; antisemitism on the rise across Europe; rights lawyer faces bogus charges in Equatorial Guinea; and new Barbie doll could help fight stigma around physical disabilities.

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