On April 1, the draw for the 2022 World Cup finals is set to take place in Qatar, which is hosting the tournament. This is a major event for football fans, who will be hoping for good luck and a favorable draw to help their favorite teams along the path to December’s final match. Sadly, it was often luck, rather than robust Qatari laws and protections, that has determined the fate of millions of migrant workers, many of whom were drawn to Qatar over the last decade for the allure (and often illusion) of higher wages, only to instead suffer terrible abuses at the hands of unaccountable and unscrupulous employers. The Qatari authorities have created and maintained a system that allows this to continue, without effective remedies for those abused.

French Authorities Should Provide More Assistance

A group of Mexican advocates with disabilities is aiming to raise awareness on the need for political institutions in Mexico, including political parties, to specifically carry out policies and actions to promote active political participation of people with intellectual disabilities.

How are various international institutions responding to Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine? What are these institutions doing to address the atrocities we're seeing on the ground? What more needs to be done? HRW's Executive Director, Kenneth Roth in conversation with European Media Director, Andrew Stroehlein

Uzbekistan and its civil society reached a historic turning point in efforts to combat forced labor in the country’s annual cotton harvest yesterday. "An historic win for human rights activism."

(Berlin, March 16, 2022)— Russian forces repeatedly fired cluster munitions into the densely populated city of Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine, during three separate attacks on March 7, 11, and 13, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack on March 13 reportedly killed nine civilians, who were apparently queuing at a cash machine. The three attacks also injured several other civilians and damaged a hospital, homes, businesses, and civilian vehicles. “Multiple residential areas in Mykolaiv were rocked by cluster munition attacks in the span of a week,” said Steve Goose, Arms Director of Human Rights Watch.  “Russian forces should cease the use of cluster munitions and end these clearly indiscriminate attacks.”

Scores Killed and Wounded in Apparent War Crime in Chernihiv