Racial Discrimination
Racial discrimination is a serious human rights problem in the United States that intersects with all of the US domestic issues covered by Human Rights Watch—from over-incarceration of Black and Latinx people fueled by the disproportionately harsh sentences meted out for all categories of crime, including violent offenses, to the failed War on Drugs, to prosecution and bail policies that coerce people into guilty pleas, to surveillance of specific groups, such as Muslims or political activists from other ethnic or religious minorities, to immigration policies that scapegoat immigrants as criminals, or subject asylum seekers and refugees to disparate treatment based on their national origin. Human Rights Watch documents, investigates, and analyzes human rights abuses involving racial discrimination in “purpose or effect,” meaning violations that result in racial disparities even without intent to discriminate, and we advocate for the US to meet its international human rights obligation to end all forms of racial discrimination.
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United Nations
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US: Failed Justice 100 Years After Tulsa Race Massacre
Commission Alienates Survivors; State, City Should Urgently Ensure Reparations
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US: Heat Emergency Plans Missing Pregnancy, Racial Justice
Cities, Federal Agencies, Should Broaden Responses to Climate Change
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News
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UN Rights Council needs to address China, Ethiopia, systemic racism and climate change
Item 2: Interactive Dialogue on High Commissioner’s annual report
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US: Action Needed to Protect Democratic Rights
Enact John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, For the People Act
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Human Rights Watch Urges Congress to Support the MORE Act
Legislation to End Federal Marijuana Prohibition Would Advance Racial Justice, Equity
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Groups Urge President Biden to Include Immigration in Pardon Process
Immigration is a Racial Justice Issue
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Human Rights Watch Response to Oregon Attorney General
End Opposition to Reversal of Non-Unanimous Jury Convictions
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US: Failed Justice 100 Years After Tulsa Race Massacre
Commission Alienates Survivors; State, City Should Urgently Ensure Reparations
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Continuing Injustice: The Centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre
Written Testimony of Dreisen Heath Submitted to the US House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
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Coalition Calls on U.N. Ministers of Foreign Affairs of African States for Inquiry into US Police Violence
Families of Victims of Police Brutality, Civil Society Groups Write to Ensure Effective Accountability and Follow-up to HRC Resolution 43/1
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Coalition Calls for United Nations Inquiry into US Police Violence
Families of Victims of Police Brutality, Civil Society Groups Write to Ensure Effective Accountability and Follow-up to HRC Resolution 43/1
