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May 16, 2024

Japan: Press Saudi Arabia on Human Rights

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida should publicly call on Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to respect human rights, Human Right Watch said today.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attend Kishida's welcome ceremony in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 16, 2023.
May 16, 2024

FIFA: Publish Robust Rights Framework for 2026 World Cup

FIFA should immediately release and commit to implementing the robust Human Rights Framework for the 2026 Men’s Soccer World Cup, which it developed through extensive consultations with civil society stakeholders and public officials from across North America.
The logo for the 2026 US, Canada, and Mexico-hosted FIFA Men’s World Cup on a screen outside Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, May 17, 2023.
May 16, 2024

Rwanda: Human Rights Watch Researcher Barred

Rwandan immigration authorities denied entry to Clémentine de Montjoye, a senior researcher in the Africa division at Human Rights Watch, upon arrival at Kigali International Airport, on May 13, 2024.
May 15, 2024

“We Thought We Were Safe”

การปราบปรามและการบังคับส่งกลับผู้ลี้ภัยในประเทศไทย

Since the 2014 military coup in Thailand, refugees and asylum seekers in the country have faced surveillance, violence, abductions, enforced disappearances, and forced returns facilitated by the government of Thailand. At the same time, Thai authorities have engaged in acts of transnational repression against exiled Thai activists in Southeast Asia. 
Suspected Uyghurs are transported back to a detention facility in the town of Songkhla in southern Thailand, March 26, 2014.
May 15, 2024

Peru Chooses Bigotry in Medical Services

Peru’s government published a presidential decree on May 10 classifying trans identities as mental health conditions in the country’s Essential Health Insurance Plan, which lists insurable health conditions for insurance policies.
Organizations march to demand faster investigations and justice in cases of transphobic violence in Lima, Peru, on February 22, 2023.
May 15, 2024

When Laws Fail to Protect Trans People, Harmful Medicalized Norms Creep In

Earlier this year, Germany became the world’s latest country to pass a clear law that allows transgender people to change their legal gender to reflect their identity based on self-declaration. A number of other countries are staggering toward this goal; in some, policies allow self-identification for some documents and not others. But the majority of the world’s governments still either disallow changes in legal gender recognition altogether, or have laws that require trans people to undergo medical intervention to access their rights.
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