Domestic Violence, Violence Against Women, VAWA

Europe/Central Asia

July 28, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Russia - Domestic Violence Victims Need Legal Protection

Josephine Huetlin
Intern at Europe and Central Asia Division
Middle East/North Africa

July 13, 2016 News Release

Oman: Domestic Workers Trafficked, Trapped
Asia

The extremely high rate of family violence in Papua New Guinea (PNG) needs to be addressed, said a long list of countries during PNG’s United Nations Periodic Review, a process in which countries’ human rights records are scrutinized by their peers at the UN.

May 9, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Papua New Guinea’s Family Violence Crisis

Helen Griffiths
Associate, Children's Rights

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July 17, 2016 Video

Trapped with Abuse - End Male Guardianship in Saudi Arabia
March 7, 2016 Video

Morocco: No excuse for domestic violence

News

May 4, 2016 News Release

Papua New Guinea: Address Abuses at UN Review
March 8, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: No Excuse for Domestic Violence in Morocco

Rothna Begum
Researcher, Women's Rights Division
March 4, 2016 Witness

“He knows I have nowhere else to go”
February 29, 2016 Witness

"Even covered in blood, the police would do nothing for me"
February 15, 2016 Letter

Letter from Human Rights Watch to the Government of Morocco on Domestic Violence Law Reforms
February 15, 2016 News Release

Morocco: Tepid Response on Domestic Violence
January 26, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Zika Warnings Versus Realities Women Face

Amanda Klasing
Senior Researcher, Women's Rights Division
January 20, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: A Law Ignored and Another Horror in Afghanistan

Heather Barr
Senior Researcher, Women's Rights Division
January 7, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: New Twist in a Flawed US Asylum System

Clara Long
Researcher, US Program
December 9, 2015 News Release

Africa: Strengthen Steps to End Child Marriage
December 9, 2015 Statements

Ending Child Marriage in Africa
November 12, 2015 Commentary

2 Years Later, Papua New Guinea's Domestic Safety Law MIA

Heather Barr
Senior Researcher, Women's Rights Division

Published In: WeNews

July 16, 2016

Boxed In

Women and Saudi Arabia’s Male Guardianship System
July 13, 2016

“I Was Sold”

Abuse and Exploitation of Migrant Domestic Workers in Oman
February 15, 2016

“I Just Sit and Wait to Die”

Reparations for Survivors of Kenya’s 2007-2008 Post-Election Sexual Violence

Daily Brief

September 26, 2016

New #FreeThem Campaign; Pakistan Police Abuses; Football on Occupied Land

Plus: Aleppo under bombardment; Jordanian writer shot dead; UK accused of blocking UN inquiry into Saudi war crimes in Yemen; Hungary wants a "giant refugee city" in Libya.

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