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The US Program leads with the principle of racial justice and equity as a fundamental human right providing the foundational, over-arching, and unifying theme for all our work. Our strategic ...

The Economic Justice and Rights Division works to build just economies based on respect for human rights. We investigate how the global economic system both drives inequality that undermines human ...

With a profound sense of loss and deep sorrow, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) mourn the ...

Human Rights Watch’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Division defends the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, displaced people, and migrants worldwide. We investigate rights violations arising from ...

The following principles are based on international human rights law, which offers valuable standards for protecting ...

Justice Minister Mamadou Kassogue ... “We all live in constant fear, now more than ever,” one LGBT rights activist told Human Rights Watch. The penalties for violating the new law remain ...

A flawed human rights assessment of Saudi Arabia’s FIFA 2034 World Cup bid by AS&H Clifford Chance, part of the global ...

A prominent Iranian American human rights activist has expressed shock but also defiance about Iranian murder-for-hire plots ...

This opinion piece was co-authored by Fereshta Abbasi, Afghanistan Researcher at Human Rights Watch, and Torunn Wimpelmann ... by the International Court of Justice as part of South Africa ...

These events at the College do not exist in a vacuum. They are part of a broader climate of repression of speech against those committed to Palestinian liberation. Students, staff and faculty around ...