Organisation
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Works with victims to expose human rights violations
Through its reports and advocacy efforts, Human Rights Watch works to stop abuses. Maintains a staff of over 180 regional experts, lawyers and linguists to help explain why abuses break out and what must be done to stop them. The goal is to make governments pay a heavy price in reputation and legitimacy if they violate the rights of their people.
Current thematic research programmes are: Arms, business, children's rights, women's rights. Produces an annual (printed) Human Rights Watch World Report (introduction available online).
Includes former Asia Watch
WWW site includes all country and thematic reports dating back to 1989, contact information for regional groups, photos, maps and other materials.
Published Documents
- "You are all terrorists:” Kenyan police abuse of refugees in Nairobi
- G. Simpson / Human Rights Watch, 2013
- This 68-page report is based on interviews with 101 refugees, asylum seekers, and Kenyans of Somali ethnicity. The report aims to document how police used grenade and other attacks by unknown people in Nairobi’s mainly Somali su...
- Death from the skies: deliberate and indiscriminate air strikes on civilians
- O. Solvang / Human Rights Watch, 2013
- This 80-page report is based on visits to 50 sites of government air strikes in opposition-controlled areas in Aleppo, Idlib, and Latakia governorates, and more than 140 interviews with witnesses and victims. The air strikes documente...
- 'We will teach you a lesson': sexual violence against Tamils by Sri Lankan security forces
- C Hogg / Human Rights Watch, 2013
- The 140-page report provides detailed accounts of 75 cases of alleged rape and sexual abuse that occurred from 2006-2012 in both official and secret detention centers throughout Sri Lanka. In the cases documented men and women reporte...
- “As if we weren’t human”: discrimination and violence against women with disabilities in Northern Uganda
- Human Rights Watch, 2010
- This report describes abuse and discrimination against women and girls with disabilities in the post-conflict northern region of Uganda. Human Rights Watch conducted the research, interviewing people about issues such as access to bas...
- World Report 2011 | Human Rights Watch
- Human Rights Watch, 2011
- This 21st annual World Report summarises human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide. It reflects extensive investigative work undertaken in 2010 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnershi...
- Closing Doors?: The Narrowing of Democratic Space in Burundi
- N. Ghoshal / Human Rights Watch, 2010
- In recent years, Burundi has been widely recognized for its vibrant civil society, its active and independent media, and a degree of political pluralism not seen in most of its East and Central African neighbors. Problems remain, incl...
- Schools and Armed Conflict | Human Rights Watch
- B Sheppard / Human Rights Watch, 2011
- This 162-page report examines domestic laws and military policies in 56 countries around the world. According to the author governments have been slow to update and align their domestic legislation with the explicit prohibitions on at...
- Reforming the Kuwaiti sponsorship system is a must for human rights
- P. Motaparthy; L.H. Sandler; S.L. Whitson (ed) / Human Rights Watch, 2010
- Foreign domestic workers play an essential role in Kuwaiti households. However, some Kuwaiti citizens take advantage of weak legal protections and use the isolated home environment as a mean to shield the abuse of workers from any ser...
- Donor strategy toward Ethiopia needs fundamental rethinking
- B. Rawlence / Human Rights Watch, 2010
- Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and is also one of the world's largest recipients of foreign development aid. Foreign donors insist that their support underwrites agricultural growth, food security, and other no...
- Can there be justice without accountability?
- S. Darehshori / Human Rights Watch, 2009
- This report seeks to put important facts and analyses on the table to better inform the debate about accountability and peace. The author argues that sacrificing justice in the hope of securing peace is often projected as a more reali...
