Human Rights Watch
The largest human rights organization based in the United States, Human Rights Watch started in 1978 as Helsinki Watch, monitoring the compliance of Soviet bloc countries with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Accords. In the 1980s Americas Watch was established to monitor abuses by both sides in the war in Central America, and thereafter other committees were set up to cover other regions of the world such as Asia and Africa. In 1988 all the "Watch" committees were united to form Human Rights Watch. The organization's researchers conduct fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world, and their findings are then published in dozens of books and reports every year.
This database contains annual reports (1996 - 2013) and selected country reports (1992 - 2013). Website: www.hrw.org
This database contains annual reports (1996 - 2013) and selected country reports (1992 - 2013). Website: www.hrw.org
- Abduction 8
- Access to procedures 1
- Arbitrary arrest and detention 17
- Armed attacks on camps 3
- Armed forces / Military 16
- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 43
- Asylum-seekers 1
- Batwa 1
- Ceasefire 2
- Child labour 1
- Child soldiers 14
- Children's rights 6
- Children-at-risk 5
- Combatants / Former combatants 10
- Communal conflict / Social conflict 2
- Conflict resolution 1
- Conflict situation 5
- Contemporary forms of slavery 2
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 2
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 2
- Crimes against humanity 10
- Criminal justice 4
- Death penalty 1
- Demobilization / Disarmament 2
- Democracy 1
- Deportation / Forcible return 2
- Disappeared persons 3
- Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 2
- Domestic violence 1
- Effective remedy 10
- Elections 9
- Ethnic cleansing 1
- Extrajudicial executions 16
- Forced labour 4
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 13
- Freedom of assembly and association 6
- Freedom of conscience 1
- Freedom of expression 11
- Freedom of information 1
- Freedom of movement 1
- Freedom of speech 1
- Gender discrimination 1
- Gender-based persecution 2
- Genocide 3
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
- HIV and AIDS 2
- Human rights activists 17
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 14
- Human rights monitors 5
- Humanitarian assistance 1
- Hutus 3
- IDP camps 1
- Impunity 16
- Independence of judiciary 2
- Internal armed conflict 14
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 5
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2
- International armed conflict 1
- International courts and tribunals 15
- International criminal law 6
- International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 6
- Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
- Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 2
- Migrant rights 1
- Migrants 1
- Military courts 2
- Military law 1
- Military operations 5
- Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 7
- Minorities 1
- Non-state agents of persecution 1
- Peace agreements 2
- Peace process 4
- Peacekeeping 7
- Persecution based on political opinion 6
- Police 5
- Political groups 1
- Political parties 2
- Political situation 6
- Pre-trial detention 1
- Prison or detention conditions 1
- Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1
- Protection of camps 1
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 27
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
- Public health 1
- Racial / Ethnic persecution 9
- Refugee camps 3
- Refugees 2
- Rejected asylum-seekers 1
- Right to a nationality 1
- Right to education 1
- Right to food 1
- Right to justice 8
- Right to seek asylum 1
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 9
- SGBV 25
- Sanctions 1
- Security forces 18
- Security situation 16
- Tutsis 1
- Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
- War crimes 30
- Women-at-risk 5
Selected filters: Democratic Republic of the Congo
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