Migrants
Migrants – people living and working outside their country of origin – are particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses. Migrant workers in factories and on farms can endure terrible working conditions, while migrant domestic workers can face a myriad of abuses inside employers’ homes. The trafficking of forced labor is a global problem. Human Rights Watch investigates rights violations arising when countries try to contain or divert the migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers at or within their borders, by placing adults and children in overcrowded and filthy detention centers, sometimes indefinitely. Large numbers of migrants fleeing criminality, poverty and environmental disaster will be without the protections of refugee status. Ultimately, all migrants should be treated with dignity.
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ItalyThis submission derives from Human Rights Watch’s documentation of rights violations in Italy and focuses on access to reproductive health care and access to education, including during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as complicity in abuses faced by migrants. All of the names used are pseudonyms to protect the identity of witnesses and victims.
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Qatar: Wage Abuse Action Shortchanges Workers
Workers Still Owed Wages for Months After Informing Government of Abuse
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News
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US Correcting Course on Refugees, Climate Migrants
Biden Administration Orders Would Replace Prejudice with Principles
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US: Newly Released Files Show Fast-Track to Deportation
Reveal How Asylum Seekers at Border Were Short-Changed on Rights
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Bahrain: No Improvement in Rights Record
Arrests for Peaceful Speech; Death Sentences After Unfair Trials
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US: ‘Remain in Mexico’ Harms Children, Families
Two Years into Program, Thousands Face Violence, Trauma, Uncertainty
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Qatar: Wage Abuse Action Shortchanges Workers
Workers Still Owed Wages for Months After Informing Government of Abuse
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US: Protect Cameroonians From Deportation
Alleged Abuse by Immigration Officials Warrants Immediate Investigation
