January 12, 2017

The rise of populist leaders in the United States and Europe poses a dangerous threat to basic rights protections while encouraging abuse by autocrats around the world.

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  • November 22, 2018 Video
    HRW's Steve Swerdlow and Philippe Dam are on the express train to Samarkand, where they look back at a long day of expert discussions on the decreasing use of forced labor in Uzbekistan's cotton fields.
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  • November 22, 2018 Video
    HRW's Steve Swerdlow looks ahead to an international human rights conference in Samarkand, another indication of the more encouraging new direction the Uzbek government has been taking.
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  • November 20, 2018 Video
    The decision by Airbnb to stop listing properties in unlawful Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is a positive step that other global tourism companies should follow, Human Rights Watch and Kerem Navot said in issuing a report today about Airbnb and Booking.com’s activities in settlements.
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  • November 19, 2018 Video
    The Dominican Republic’s total ban on abortion threatens women's health and lives and violates their rights. Abortion is illegal in the Dominican Republic in all circumstances, even when a pregnancy is life-threatening, unviable, or the result of rape.
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  • November 15, 2018 Video
    In its latest attempt to harness the power of public relations to provide a sheen of respectability to its authoritarian government, the UAE is hosting the first ever World Tolerance Summit.
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  • November 12, 2018 Video
    More than 22 million children in Pakistan are out of school, and the majority of them are girls. The Pakistan government should do more to provide all children with access to education.
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  • October 31, 2018 Video
    North Korean officials commit sexual violence with little concern for the consequences. The government fails to investigate and prosecute complaints, or to provide protection and services to victims, and even asserts that the country is implausibly free of sexism or sexual violence.
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