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This 179-page report accuses Israeli authorities of intentionally depriving Palestinians in Gaza of access to safe water, constituting acts of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Human Rights Watch, December 19, 2024, 179p.
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The 50-page report offers recommendations for systemic reform in Bangladesh's security sector following the ousting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, emphasizing the need for legal detention practices and political neutrality.
Human Rights Watch, January 27, 2025, 50p.
By The Human Rights Watch
This 50-page report finds that Israeli military actions have severely impacted pregnant women in Gaza, including attacks on medical facilities and restrictions on humanitarian aid.
Human Rights Watch, January 28, 2025, 50p.
The report documents how systemic neglect and lack of investment in healthcare contribute to high cervical cancer mortality rates among Black women in the Mississippi Delta.
Human Rights Watch, January 29, 2025, n.p.
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This 133-page report finds that the U.S. government permitted lithium mining projects without obtaining the free, prior, and informed consent of Indigenous communities, violating their rights.
Human Rights Watch, February 6, 2025, 133p.
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The 61-page report reveals how prosecutorial discretion in New Jersey leads to children being tried as adults, resulting in harsh sentences and racial disparities.
Human Rights Watch, February 11, 2025, 61p.
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This 85-page report highlights the barriers faced by girls who are survivors of sexual violence in accessing health care, education, social security, and justice in Guatemala.
Human Rights Watch, February 18, 2025, 85p.
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The 178-page report examines the systemic failures in Mexico's criminal justice system, where the majority of homicides go unpunished, affecting both victims and the accused.
Human Rights Watch, February 19, 2025, 178p.
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This 67-page report documents the Zambian government's failure to enforce environmental laws, leading to children's exposure to hazardous lead waste from mining activities.
Human Rights Watch, March 5, 2025, 67p.
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The 66-page report examines the relocation of the Walande community due to climate change, highlighting the lack of adequate government and international assistance and ongoing threats to their rights.
Human Rights Watch, March 17, 2025, 66p.
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This 63-page report details how Central Asian migrants in Russia face ethnic profiling, arbitrary arrests, and harassment by police and nationalist groups, along with abusive administrative restrictions.
Human Rights Watch, March 17, 2025, 63p.
By The Human Rights WatchThe 81-page report documents increasing poverty and the failure of Germany's social security system to ensure an adequate standard of living, particularly affecting single mothers and older women living alone on low incomes.
Human Rights Watch, March 24, 2025, 81p.
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This 86-page report describes how authorities in Western Australia have been quick to remove children from Aboriginal mothers fleeing domestic violence and from Aboriginal parents without adequate housing, rather than providing appropriate services to address these issues.
Human Rights Watch, March 26, 2025, 86p.
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The 42-page report, “‘All Conspirators’: How Tunisia Uses Arbitrary Detention to Crush Dissent,” documents the government’s increased reliance on arbitrary detention and politically motivated prosecutions to intimidate, punish, and silence its critics. Human Rights Watch documented the cases of 22 people detained on abusive charges, including terrorism, in connection with their public statements or political activities. They include lawyers, political opponents, activists, journalists, social media users, and a human rights defender. At least 14 detainees could face capital punishment if convicted. Over 50 people were being held on political grounds or for exercising their rights as of January 2025.
Human Rights Watch, April 16, 2025, p. 42
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The 26-page report, “‘We’ll All Be Arrested Soon’: Abusive Prosecutions under Vietnam’s ‘Infringing of State Interests’ Law,” documents the Vietnamese government’s increased use of article 331 of the penal code to target those who use social media and other means to publicly raise issues including religious freedom, land rights, rights of Indigenous people, and corruption by the government and the Communist Party of Vietnam. The authorities should immediately end the systemic repression, and release everyone detained or imprisoned for exercising their basic rights.
Human Rights Watch, April 21, 2025, p. 26
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The 40-page report “‘Nobody Cared, Nobody Listened:’ The US Expulsion of Third-Country Nationals to Panama” documents this mass expulsion. Human Rights Watch exposes harsh detention conditions and mistreatment migrants experienced in the United States, along with the denial of due process and the right to seek asylum. It also details migrants’ incommunicado detention in Panama, where authorities kept their phones, blocked visitors, and isolated them from the outside world.
Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2025, p. 40
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The 61-page report, “A Hazard to Human Rights: Autonomous Weapons Systems and Digital Decision-Making,” finds that autonomous weapons, which select and apply force to targets based on sensor rather human inputs, would contravene the rights to life, peaceful assembly, privacy, and remedy as well as the principles of human dignity and non-discrimination. Technological advances and military investments are now spurring the rapid development of autonomous weapons systems that would operate without meaningful human control.
Human Rights Watch, April 28, 2025, p. 61
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The 104-page report, “Punished for Seeking Change: Killings, Enforced Disappearances and Arbitrary Detention Following Venezuela’s 2024 Election,” documents human rights violations against protesters, bystanders, opposition leaders, and critics during post-electoral protests and the months that followed. It implicates Venezuelan authorities and pro-government groups, known as colectivos, in widespread abuses, including killings of protesters and bystanders; enforced disappearances of opposition party members, their relatives, and foreign nationals; arbitrary detention and prosecution, including of children; and torture and ill-treatment of detainees.
Human Rights Watch, April 30, 2025, p. 104
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The 59-page report, “United States: Repeal the Alien Enemies Act, A Human Rights Argument,” describes how the Trump administration has utilized the act as a vehicle for its attempted end run around basic due process and human rights protections. Modern international law binds the United States to respect human rights through treaty frameworks and customary norms, many of which have been incorporated into US domestic law. The Alien Enemies Act is an archaic statute that predates these legal norms and is entirely incompatible with them.
Human Rights Watch, May 1, 2025, p. 59
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The 54-page report, “Facing the Bulldozers: Iban Indigenous Resistance to the Timber Industry in Sarawak, Malaysia,” details how the Malaysian company Zedtee, part of the Shin Yang Group timber conglomerate, logged in the ancestral territory of the Iban community Rumah Jeffery without their consent. Human Rights Watch found that Zedtee’s conduct did not meet Sarawak’s laws and policies, or the terms of the Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme. Rather than hold Zedtee accountable, the Sarawak state government threatened to arrest protesters and demolish Rumah Jeffery’s village.
Human Rights Watch, May 4, 2025, p. 54
