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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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"I Just Wanted to be Treated like a Person" - How Lebanon's Residency Rules Facilitate Abuse of Syrian Refugees

12 January 2016 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

Unequal and Unprotected: Women's Rights under Lebanese Personal Status Laws

19 January 2015 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

Exported and Exposed: Abuses against Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates

14 November 2007 | Publisher: Human Rights Watch | Document type: Country Reports

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