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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 - 2016) and selected country reports (1992 - 2016).  Website: www.hrw.org
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DR Congo: EU, US Sanction Top Officials

1 June 2017 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country News

"No Control, No Choice" - Lack of Access to Reproductive Healthcare in Sudan's Rebel-Held Southern Kordofan

22 May 2017 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

"Punishing the Patient" - Ensuring Access to Pain Treatment in Guatemala

17 May 2017 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

"Going to the Toilet When You Want" - Sanitation as a Human Right

19 April 2017 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country News

Venezuela: Humanitarian Crisis Spilling into Brazil

18 April 2017 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country News

World Report 2017 - Russia

12 January 2017 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Annual Reports

World Report 2017 - Haiti

12 January 2017 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Annual Reports

"All Five Fingers Are Not the Same" - Discrimination on Grounds of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation in Sri Lanka

15 August 2016 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

Nepotism and Neglect: The Failing Response to Arsenic in the Drinking Water of Bangladesh's Rural Poor

April 2016 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

"Pain Tears Me Apart" - Challenges and Progress in Ensuring the Right to Palliative Care in Morocco

4 February 2016 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

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