India: Fortify Bill Protecting Transgender People
The Indian government should strengthen its groundbreaking bill providing legal protections for the country’s transgender population, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday in a letter to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. The Rights of...
Indonesia: Ahmadiyah Community Threatened
The Indonesian government should immediately intervene to protect members of the Ahmadiyah religious community from intimidation and threats of expulsion by local authorities on Bangka Island, Human Rights Watch said on January 16.
‘You cannot let more people die on your watch’ in Syria, deputy UN relief chief tells Security Council
With hundreds of thousands of Syrians living in a “nightmarish reality dictated by a conflict that respects few rules and obeys no laws,” the United Nations deputy humanitarian chief told the members of the UN Security Council on 15 January that they...
Tunisia: LGBT Group Suspended
The Tunisian authorities’ decision to suspend the activities of the LGBT rights group Shams is a setback for individual freedoms and equal rights in Tunisia. Shams works on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights.
Training, Awareness Critical in Human Trafficking Fight
The signs of human trafficking could be all around Defense Department personnel: A subcontractor withholds passports and delays payment to its employees, or a company forces potential workers to pay a large fee to obtain a contract job on a DoD...
To Get Syrian Kids in School, Let Parents Work
On Monday, Turkey announced what could be a huge step forward for Syrian refugee children’s access to education – one that European leaders should strongly support. Volkan Bozkir, Turkey’s minister for European affairs, said that his country planned...
China: Subversion Charges Target Lawyers
The Chinese authorities’ formal arrest of at least 11 human rights lawyers, legal assistants, and activists on political subversion charges is an unprecedented and grave escalation of attacks on rights defenders in China, Human Rights Watch said on...
USA: educators play key role in combatting human trafficking
Thailand: End Impunity for Enforced Disappearances
The Thai government should immediately act to end enforced disappearances in Thailand, Human Rights Watch said Thursday in a letter to Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha. The government should make enforced disappearance a criminal offense and take...
Pakistan: Raid on Journalist Latest Act of Intimidation
The raid by a Pakistani paramilitary force on a journalist’s house is just the latest attempt by Pakistan’s security agencies to intimidate journalists who criticize the government and military, Human Rights Watch said on January 13.
