World leaders gathering for the United Nations General Assembly’s annual General Debate this week should call for action to ...

The Human Rights Watch group urged Latin American governments to expand protections for thousands of Haitians and Ve ...

Prior to Human Rights Watch, Yasmine was Executive Director of the multi award winning human rights organization, Rights and Security International. She also worked as a public international ...

Heather Barr is associate director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. She has researched human rights in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New ...

Videos from KQED Live Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events ... Mayor London Breed has tapped Mawuli Tugbenyoh to serve as the acting executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights ...

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Human Rights Watch’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Division defends the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, displaced people, and migrants worldwide. We investigate rights violations arising from ...

“Ai Weiwei is an inspiration to people fighting oppression the world over,” said Tirana Hassan, executive director of Human Rights Watch. “We are absolutely thrilled to be working with him ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded that the Chinese government must immediately release and revoke the conviction of Yang ...

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A United Nations panel issued guiding principles today making clear that the pursuit of minerals needed to transition from ...

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