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April 15, 2024
Tajikistan: EU States, Türkiye Should Not Return Dissidents
Several people based in Lithuania, Poland, and Turkey, linked to a banned Tajik opposition movement, Group 24, have in recent months disappeared or have been arrested and threatened with extradition to Tajikistan, Human Rights Watch and Norwegian Helsinki Committee said today.
April 15, 2024
Letter to the World Bank and IMF Executive Directors on Failings to Promote the Human Right to Social Security
96 human rights, faith-based, and economic justice organizations, write to express concerns that the World Bank and IMF are failing to promote the human right to social security for all.
April 15, 2024
Civil Society Organisations Call on MEPs to Vote Down Harmful EU Migration Pact
Amidst warnings from over 50 Civil Society Organisations, EU lawmakers reached a political agreement on the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum in December. The agreement is a continuation of a decade of policy that has led to the proliferation of rights violations in Europe. Moreover, it will have devastating implications for the right to international protection in the bloc and greenlights abuses across Europe including racial profiling, default de facto detention and pushbacks. Next week, MEPs will be presented with a final chance to reject the files in a Plenary vote, and to give a political signal against the adoption of a Pact that would undermine fundamental rights.
April 15, 2024
Statement to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
Human Rights Watch is honored to address the African Committee of Experts at its 43rd Ordinary Session.
April 15, 2024
Ten years after his arbitrary arrest, NGOs call for Saudi human rights defender Waleed Abu al-Khair to be released
Saudi authorities should immediately release Waleed Abu al-Khair, an award-winning Saudi human rights defender and lawyer
April 15, 2024
Saudi Arabia: Free Award-Winning Activist
Saudi authorities should immediately release Waleed Abu al-Khair, an award-winning Saudi human rights defender and lawyer
April 15, 2024
Justa Libertad: A Movement to Decriminalize Abortion in Ecuador
An Ecuadorian coalition of eight civil society organizations recently filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court of Ecuador seeking to decriminalize abortion. This crucial initiative seeks to ensure that women, girls, and other pregnant people can access safe abortion care.
April 15, 2024
Letter to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Upcoming China Visit and Human Rights
Germany can have considerable impact on the actions of the Chinese government if it remains committed to a principled and public human rights foreign policy, especially if it does so with its partners.