Children, youth and conflict
- 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 wi...
- State Failure to Stop Domestic Abuse and Abduction of Women in Kyrgyzstan
- Human Rights Watch , 2006
- Although Kyrgyzstan has progressive laws on violence against women, police and other authorities fail to implement them. As a result, women remain in danger and without access to justice. Based on in-...
- “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 ...
- Illusions of Care: Lack of Accountability for Reproductive Rights in Argentina
- Human Rights Watch , 2010
- Does it seem odd that seven years after Argentina’s first national reproductive health programme was implemented, the indicators on maternal health, unwanted pregnancies and abortion have hardly...
- Walls at every turn: abuse of migrant domestic workers through Kuwait's sponsorship system
- 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 shi...
- Development without freedom: how aid underwrites repression in Ethiopia
- 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 agricultura...
- Selling justice short: why accountability matters for peace
- 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 pea...
- UN drug summit: undo a decade of neglect
- Human Rights Watch , 2009
- UN drug control agencies have paid little attention to whether international drug control efforts are consistent with human rights protections, or to the effect of drug control policies on fundamen...
- War on the displaced Sri Lankan army and LTTE abuses against civilians in the Vanni
- Human Rights Watch , 2009
- During the ongoing fighting in the Vanni, both the Sri Lankan armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law with r...
- "The Island of Happiness": exploitation of migrant workers on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi
- Human Rights Watch , 2009
- Saadiyat Island, in the Arabian Gulf, is a 27 square kilometer island consisting primarily of sand and mangrove swamp. Within a decade, if a $22 to 27 billion development plan goes according to schedu...
