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Americas My Rights, and My Right to Know Lack of Access to Therapeutic Abortion in Peru
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-347-1 July 9, 2008 Also available in 
Download PDF, 250 KB, 53 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission A Critical Assessment
HRW Index No.: B2001 February 13, 2008 Also available in
Download PDF, 601 KB, 130 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Over Their Dead Bodies Denial of Access to Emergency Obstetric Care and Therapeutic Abortion in Nicaragua This 18-page report documents how this ban on abortion has made women afraid to seek even legal health services. Fearing prosecution under the new law, doctors are unwilling to provide necessary care. The report is based on interviews with officials, doctors from the public and private health systems, women in need of health services, and family members of women who died as a result of the ban. HRW Index No.: B1902 October 2, 2007 Also available in
Download PDF, 130 KB, 18 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Maiming the People Guerrilla Use of Antipersonnel Landmines and other Indiscriminate Weapons in Colombia This 34–page report is accompanied by an extensive photo and audio slideshow, and documents the impact on civilian survivors of guerrillas’ use of antipersonnel landmines in Colombia, as well as the difficulties that such survivors face in obtaining needed assistance from the government. HRW Index No.: B1901 July 25, 2007 Also available in
Download PDF, 10300 KB, 38 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Swept Under the Rug Abuses against Domestic Workers Around the World
HRW Index No.: C1807 July 26, 2006 Download PDF, 470 KB, 95 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Mexico: Lost in Transition Bold Ambitions, Limited Results for Human Rights Under Fox This 150-page report documents the successes and failures of Fox’s human rights policies. The report offers detailed recommendations for his successor —who will be chosen in the July presidential election —on how to build upon the Fox agenda, while avoiding its significant shortcomings. May 17, 2006 Also available in
Download PDF, 744 KB, 158 pgs Purchase online Mexico: The Second Assault Obstructing Access to Legal Abortion after Rape in Mexico This 92-page report details the disrespect, suspicion and apathy that pregnant rape victims encounter from public prosecutors and health workers. The report also exposes continuing and pervasive impunity for rape and other forms of sexual violence in states throughout Mexico. HRW Index No.: B1801 March 7, 2006 Also available in
Download PDF, 486 KB, 94 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Probable Cause Evidence Implicating Fujimori This 22-page report focuses specifically on information implicating Fujimori in five criminal cases currently pending in Peru, including human rights violations as well as acts of corruption that undermined Peru’s democratic institutions. HRW Index No.: B1706 December 21, 2005 Also available in
Download PDF, 305 KB, 24 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Families Torn Apart The High Cost of U.S. and Cuban Travel Restrictions This 69-page report shows how the travel policies of both countries infringe upon the internationally recognized right to freedom of movement, which includes the right to leave and return to one’s own country. In the case of parents and children forced to reside in different countries, the policies also violate the international prohibition on the involuntary separation of families. HRW Index No.: B1705 October 19, 2005 Also available in
Download PDF, 2470 KB, 71 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Colombia: Displaced and Discarded The Plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Bogotá and Cartagena The families interviewed for this 60-page report described fleeing their homes after receiving threats, being subjected to torture, or seeing relatives or neighbors killed. When they flee their communities and seek shelter elsewhere, they may wait weeks or even months for emergency aid, are often denied medical care, and may be unable to enroll their children in schools. HRW Index No.: B1704 October 14, 2005 Also available in
Download PDF, 573 KB, 62 pgs Purchase online Smoke and Mirrors Colombia’s demobilization of paramilitary groups Drawing on interviews with numerous demobilized paramilitaries, the report is the first to document the Colombian government’s mishandling of the recent paramilitary demobilizations. As the report documents, demobilized paramilitaries are not confessing, turning over substantial assets, or disclosing substantial information about their groups’ criminal networks and financing streams as part of the demobilization process. Instead, paramilitaries are taking full advantage of the demobilization process to launder their illegal fortunes and legitimize their political control. The 64-page report also shows that demobilizations are not bringing real progress towards peace. HRW Index No.: B1703 August 1, 2005 Download PDF, 410 KB, 66 pgs Purchase online Decisions Denied Women’s Access to Contraceptives and Abortion in Argentina Decisions about contraception and abortion are difficult, deeply personal, and sometimes wrenching. In Argentina, women are routinely prevented from making such decisions. Despite important advances in the area of women’s political participation and economic independence, doctors and spouses continue to exercise control over women’s reproductive health through laws and policies that subject female decision-making to arbitrary extraneous interference. HRW Index No.: B1701 June 15, 2005 Also available in
Download PDF, 418 KB, 87 pgs Purchase online In the Dark Hidden Abuses Against Detained Youths in Rio de Janeiro When Human Rights Watch last visited Rio de Janeiro’s five juvenile detention centers, in July and August 2003, we found a system that was decaying, filthy, and dangerously overcrowded. The facilities we saw did not meet basic standards of health or hygiene. Complaints of beatings and other ill-treatment were routinely ignored by the state’s Department of Socio-Educational Action (Departamento Geral de Ações Sócio-Educativas, DEGASE), the authority responsible for the state’s juvenile detention centers. The system lacked effective oversight; in particular, administrative sanctions against guards were rare, and none of the officials we spoke with knew of any case in which a guard had received a criminal conviction for abusive conduct. HRW Index No.: B1702 June 9, 2005 Also available in 
Download PDF, 51 KB, 392 pgs Purchase online Printer friendly version Still at Risk Diplomatic Assurances No Safeguard Against Torture This 91-page report documents the growing practice among Western governments—including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands—of seeking assurances of humane treatment in order to transfer terrorism suspects to states with well-established records of torture. The report details a dozen cases involving actual or attempted transfers to countries where torture is commonplace. HRW Index No.: D1703 April 15, 2005 Download PDF, 563 KB, 94 pgs Purchase online “Real Dungeons” Juvenile Detention in the State of Rio de Janeiro The 70-page report documents that youths in Rio de Janeiro’s detention centers are often beaten and verbally abused by guards. Most complaints of ill-treatment are never investigated by the state’s Department of Socio-Economic Action (Departamento Geral de Ações Sócio-Educativas, or DEGASE), the authority responsible for juvenile detention facilities. Administrative sanctions against guards are rare and usually take the form of transfers to other detention centers; no guard has ever faced criminal charges for abusive conduct. December 7, 2004 Also available in
Download PDF, 425 KB, 67 pgs Purchase online Hated to Death Homophobia, Violence, and Jamaica’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic Jamaica’s growing HIV/AIDS epidemic is unfolding in the context of widespread violence and discrimination against people living with and at high risk of HIV/AIDS, especially men who have sex with men. Myths about HIV/AIDS persist. Many Jamaicans believe that HIV/AIDS is a disease of homosexuals and sex workers whose “moral impurity” makes them vulnerable to it, or that HIV is transmitted by casual contact. HRW Index No.: B1606 November 16, 2004 Download PDF, 492 KB, 81 pgs Purchase online Undue Process Terrorism Trials, Military Courts and the Mapuche in Southern Chile This 60-page report shows how Mapuche defendants charged with terrorist acts face unequal trials for crimes that do not pose a direct threat to life, liberty or physical integrity. The use of extraordinary procedures, which were established in the antiterrorism law to tackle the most extreme political violence, is wholly unjustified when dealing with crimes attributed to the Mapuche that are mostly against property. HRW Index No.: B1605 October 27, 2004 Also available in
Download PDF, 494 KB, 60 pgs Purchase online A Test of Inequality Discrimination against Women Living with HIV in the Dominican Republic Women in the Dominican Republic are routinely subjected to involuntary HIV testing, and those who test positive are fired and denied adequate healthcare. This 50-page report documents the human rights violations women living with HIV suffer in the public health system as well as in the workplace. Women receive grossly inadequate information about HIV from the public health system, preventing them from giving their informed consent to testing and treatment. Public health professionals routinely reveal HIV test results to women’s families without the tested individuals knowledge or consent, exposing them to violence and abuse. In addition, women living with HIV are frequently denied adequate and equal healthcare. HRW Index No.: B1604 July 13, 2004 Also available in
Download PDF, 331 KB, 50 pgs Purchase online Rigging the Rule of Law Judicial Independence Under Siege in Venezuela The Venezuelan government is undermining the independence of the country’s judiciary ahead of a presidential recall referendum that may ultimately be decided in the courts. President Chávez’s governing coalition has begun implementing a new court-packing law that will strip the Supreme Court of its autonomy. This 24-page report examines how the new law will make judges more vulnerable to political persecution and help ensure that legal controversies surrounding the recall referendum are resolved in Chávez’s favor. HRW Index No.: B1603 June 17, 2004 Also available in
Download PDF, 271 KB, 26 pgs Purchase online Turning a Blind Eye Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador’s Sugarcane Cultivation Businesses purchasing sugar from El Salvador, including The Coca-Cola Company, are using the product of child labor that is both hazardous and widespread. Harvesting cane requires children to use machetes and other sharp knives to cut sugarcane and strip the leaves off the stalks, work they perform for up to nine hours each day in the hot sun. Nearly every child interviewed by Human Rights Watch for its 139-page report said that he or she had suffered machete gashes on the hands or legs while cutting cane. These risks led one former labor inspector to characterize sugarcane as the most dangerous of all forms of agricultural work. HRW Index No.: B1602 June 10, 2004 Also available in
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