Disasters and Displaced Populations

Asia

May 24, 2017 News Release

Burma: Army Investigation Denies Atrocities
Asia

January 12, 2017 News Release

Nepal: Political Bickering Stalls Justice for Conflict Victims
Americas

It’s hard to imagine another disaster on the scale of the 2010 earthquake and the subsequent cholera epidemic in Haiti. Yet the latest reports on the devastation wrought by Hurricane Matthew, which hit Haiti on October 4, suggest its devastating effects, like those of the earthquake, will linger.

October 20, 2016 Dispatches

Helping Haiti – Have Lessons Been Learned?

Amanda Klasing
Senior Researcher, Women's Rights Division

Reports More Reports

November 3, 2016

“The Farmer Becomes the Criminal”

Human Rights and Land Confiscation in Karen State
May 19, 2016

Leave No One Behind

Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Emergencies
October 15, 2015

“There is No Time Left”

Climate Change, Environmental Threats, and Human Rights in Turkana County, Kenya

News

September 16, 2016 Dispatches

Syria Truce Brings Calm, But No Aid

Hadeel al-Shalchi
Syria Researcher
May 24, 2016 Commentary

Helping Older People When Disaster Strikes
May 20, 2016 Commentary

LGBT People in Emergencies – Risks and Service Gaps

Kyle Knight
Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program
May 19, 2016 Report

Leave No One Behind
May 17, 2016 Commentary

In Crises: Left Behind, Left Out

Bethany Brown
Researcher, Health and Human Rights Division
February 14, 2016 Statements

Human Rights Watch Submission on Gender Equality to the Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation
November 2, 2015 News Release

China: New Ban on ‘Spreading Rumors’ About Disasters
October 1, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: Britain Backtracks on Justice for Yemen

David Mepham
UK Director
August 17, 2015 Statements

Statement to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Article 11
June 4, 2015 Impact

Dispatches: From Despair to Hope in Central African Republic

Lewis Mudge
Africa researcher
May 20, 2015 News Release

Attacks on Health Facilities, Staff, Patients
May 11, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: With Disabilities in Yemen, Left in the Rubble

Shantha Rau Barriga
Director, Disability Rights

Daily Brief

May 26, 2017

Gay purge in Chechnya; Trump in Europe; Attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt; martial law in Philippines; US admits civilian deaths in airstrike in Iraq; new video analysis of protesters beaten in Washington; Kasese killings in Uganda; and police assault on Roma in Slovakia.