When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, one of their early actions was to ban women from the legal profession. In this conversation, HRW’s Macarena Sáez is joined by Judge Marzia Babakarkhail, Justice Mona Lynch, Judge Basira Qazizada, and Judge Bahida Rahimi to discuss this crisis.
Human Rights Watch leads a conversation with California advocates about Senate Bill 43, the latest effort to expand involuntary treatment in California.
It's been nearly two years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. The country has largely disappeared from the media, but it remains one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. In this Space, we discuss the humanitarian and economic crisis, restrictions on women's rights, and other human rights abuses in the country.
After more than three years, US President Joe Biden’s administration is slated to end the mass expulsion policy known as “Title 42.” Ari Sawyer, Vicki B. Gaubeca, and Alison Leal Parker discuss the policy that upended decades of asylum law.
