
Economic Justice and Rights
The Economic Justice and Rights Division works to build just economies based on respect for human rights. We investigate how the global economic system both drives inequality that undermines human rights and enables private actors to harm communities, workers, and the environment. Our work is driven by rigorous, thorough, and objective investigations. The Poverty and Inequality program exposes policies and practices that concentrate wealth in private hands at the expense of public well-being, challenging corruption, deregulation, privatization, and the dismantling and underfunding of tax-funded systems of social protection. Our Corporate Accountability program works to ensure that products and services are free from abuse or exploitation by holding businesses accountable for the human rights impacts of their operations, investments, and supply chains. Our work illuminates opaque and diffuse global supply chains and investment flows that obscure involvement in human rights abuses—from forced labor to environmental destruction—and advocates for stronger regulation of industries at home and abroad.
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Ukraine/Russia: As War Continues, Africa Food Crisis Looms
Provide Aid, Expand Social Protection to Prevent Hunger
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“If I’m Out of Insulin, I’m Going to Die”
United States’ Lack of Regulation Fuels Crisis of Unaffordable Insulin
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Human Rights Watch Among Pegasus Spyware Targets
Governments Should Urgently Halt Trade in Surveillance Technology
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Afghanistan: Taliban’s Catastrophic Year of Rule
Denial of Women’s Rights, Media Crackdown, and Retaliatory Killings Amid Mass Hunger
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Sri Lanka: New President Should Chart Path Upholding Rights
Ranil Wickremesinghe Needs to End Crackdown, Address Economic Crisis
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Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis and the IMF
Support Public Calls to Expand Social Protection, Address Corruption
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Afghanistan: Economic Crisis Underlies Mass Hunger
Governments, Taliban Need to Reach Urgent Agreement on Banking Issues
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Economic Causes of Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Crisis
Questions and Answers on Sanctions and Banking Restrictions on the Taliban
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Sri Lanka: Heightened Crackdown on Dissent
End Arbitrary Arrests, Harassment of Protesters, Activists, Journalists
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Sri Lanka: Security Forces Assault Peaceful Protesters
International Partners Should Promote Upholding Rights With Economic Recovery Aid
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Philippines: Marcos Should Focus on Rights Issues
State of the Nation Address an Opportunity to Present New Approaches
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Spain: Food Lines Grow During Pandemic
Social Safety Net Inadequate to Meet Basic Needs of People in Poverty