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Africa

September 27, 2016 News Release

Malawi: Mining Puts Residents at Risk
September 22, 2016 Dispatches

A Chance to Protect Children and the Environment

Juliane Kippenberg
Associate Director, Children's Rights Division
Americas

August 30, 2016 Commentary

Human Right to Water at Risk in First Nations Communities

Amanda Klasing
Senior Researcher, Women's Rights Division

Published In: The Globe and Mail

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June 24, 2014 Video

Kenya: Factory Poisons Community
October 10, 2012 Video

Bangladesh: Tanneries Harm Workers, Poison Communities

News

September 23, 2016 Statements

Human Rights Watch Statement at 2016 Day of General Discussion: Children’s Rights and the Environment
September 13, 2016 Statements

States should promote gender equality and non-discrimination in the enjoyment of the rights to water and sanitation
July 22, 2016 Letter

Child Rights and the Environment – The Need For Action
June 7, 2016 News Release

Canada: Water Crisis Puts First Nations Families at Risk
May 30, 2016 News Release

Make Rules on Rights Binding for Businesses
May 18, 2016 News Release

Vietnam: Crackdown on Peaceful Environmental Protesters
May 10, 2016 Statements

Civil society statement at the 10th Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains
April 28, 2016 Letter

Danger, Keep Out! Children’s Exposure to Toxic Substances
April 19, 2016 Commentary

Signing the Climate Change Deal Is Just the Beginning

Katharina Rall
Researcher, Health and Human Rights Division

Published In: Foreign Policy in Focus
April 13, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: A glimmer of hope for Kosovo’s lead poisoning victims

Katharina Rall
Researcher, Health and Human Rights Division
April 6, 2016 News Release

Bangladesh: 20 Million Drink Arsenic-Laced Water
March 21, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: For Water ‘Have Nots,’ Rights Matter

Richard Pearshouse
Senior Researcher, Health and Human Rights

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Reports More Reports

September 27, 2016

“They Destroyed Everything”

Mining and Human Rights in Malawi
June 7, 2016

Make it Safe

Canada’s Obligation to End the First Nations Water Crisis
May 30, 2016

Human Rights in Supply Chains

A Call for a Binding Global Standard on Due Diligence

Egypt's Secretive Scorpion Prison; Thailand Torture; Somalia Shooting: HRW Daily Brief

Daily Brief

September 28, 2016

Plus: Medical charity reports on hospital attacks in Yemen; why Colombia's peace deal may not herald sustainable peace; new evidence of chemical weapons attacks in Syria; the Afghans stuck between ISIS and Taliban; and China's campaign to silence human rights lawyers...

Interactives More Interactives

February 10, 2014

Ethiopia: Omo Sugar Plantations

Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley, a home to 200,000 indigenous people is being turned into an industrial powerhouse.