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Europe/Central Asia

September 7, 2017 Report

UN: Compensate Kosovo Lead Poisoning Victims
Asia

March 16, 2017 Commentary

The Politics of Arsenic-free Water

Richard Pearshouse
Associate Director, Environment and Human Rights Division

Published In: Dhaka Tribune
Africa

February 19, 2017 Dispatches

New Law Brings Malawi’s Mining Communities Hope

Katharina Rall
Researcher, Environment and Human Rights Division

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September 7, 2017 Video

Video: UN Should Compensate Kosovo Lead Poisoning Victims
June 24, 2014 Video

Kenya: Factory Poisons Community
October 10, 2012 Video

Bangladesh: Tanneries Harm Workers, Poison Communities

Reports More Reports

September 7, 2017

UN: Compensate Kosovo Lead Poisoning Victims

Families, Children Left Ill, Destitute
December 8, 2016

Fueling the Philippines’ HIV Epidemic

Government Barriers to Condom Use by Men Who Have Sex With Men
November 3, 2016

“The Farmer Becomes the Criminal”

Human Rights and Land Confiscation in Karen State

News

January 25, 2017 News Release

Malawi: Information Bill Aids Mining Communities
January 12, 2017 News Release

Nepal: Political Bickering Stalls Justice for Conflict Victims
January 12, 2017 News Release

Vietnam: End Crackdown on Bloggers and Activists
December 22, 2016 Letter

Submission on Climate Change and Child Rights to the OHCHR
November 21, 2016 Letter

Human Rights Watch submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child concerning Malawi
October 12, 2016 Commentary

Water 'Haves' and 'Have Nots': Why Water Scarcity is a Human Rights Issue

Richard Pearshouse
Associate Director, Environment and Human Rights Division

Published In: Brisbane Times
September 30, 2016 Commentary

The Failed Promise of Mining Embitters Malawians

Katharina Rall
Researcher, Environment and Human Rights Division

Published In: Mail & Guardian Africa
September 27, 2016 News Release

Malawi: Mining Puts Residents at Risk
September 23, 2016 Statement

Human Rights Watch Statement at 2016 Day of General Discussion: Children’s Rights and the Environment
September 22, 2016 Dispatches

A Chance to Protect Children and the Environment

Juliane Kippenberg
Associate Director, Children's Rights Division
September 13, 2016 Statement

States should promote gender equality and non-discrimination in the enjoyment of the rights to water and sanitation
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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Our People

Katharina Rall

Researcher, Environment and Human Rights Division @katha_nina

Richard Pearshouse

Associate Director, Environment and Human Rights Division RPearshouse

Amanda Klasing

Senior Researcher, Women's Rights Division amklasing

Burma Satellite Imagery Shows Mass Destruction: Daily Brief

Daily Brief

September 19, 2017

Burma satellite imagery shows mass destruction; Calls for restraint ahead of Ethopia's festival; draft law threatens NGOs in Ukraine; more children killed in Yemen airstrikes; human rights at stake in German election; death sentence for text message in Pakistan; Indonesia's 'anti-communist paranoia'; North Korean refugees trapped.

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.