Testimony of Steve Swerdlow Before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, July 18, 2018

Brazil’s abortion laws are incompatible with its human rights obligations.

Tunisian authorities should adopt legislation based on the groundbreaking proposals made by a presidentially appointed commission aimed at protecting individual freedoms and eliminating discrimination against women.

If President Kabila doesn’t take concrete steps soon towards fair and free elections, the whole region could be at risk.

While the defeat of the Aderholt Amendment is a positive development, more work remains to be done. Currently, ten US states – Alabama, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Virginia – have laws in place that are similar to the Aderholt Amendment.

Of the 10 most widely used pesticides in Brazil in 2016, four are not authorized for use in Europe, indicating how hazardous other governments consider some of them.

Government security forces and armed separatists have committed grave abuses against residents of Cameroon’s Anglophone region.

Greece is denying thousands of asylum-seeking children their right to an education because of a European Union-backed migration policy that traps them on the Aegean islands.

A video from Human Rights Watch highlights ongoing abuses under the Australian government’s offshore processing and settlement policy.

The government of Myanmar should promptly provide redress for historic land confiscations. The government should also enact laws and regulations that will safeguard the rights of landholders and guard against future illegal confiscations of land.