New Article by Visiting Fellow Sandra Guo – Harvard Law School
New Article by Visiting Fellow Sandra Guo The Griffith Law Review just published an article co-written by HRP Visiting Fellow Sanzhuan (Sandra) Guo: “Automated decision making and deportation: legal concerns and regulation“. The article examines the legal and technological hurdles associated with the use of automated decision-marking (ADM) systems by immigration departments, particularly in deportation […]
Iran: UN Expands Investigations into Rights Violations
(Geneva) – The United Nations Human Rights Council’s adoption of a resolution to continue the Fact-Finding Mission on Iran and significantly broaden the scope of its investigations is a crucial step for tackling the deepening crisis of impunity in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today. The Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, advocated for by a large number of […]
States Take Steps Toward Reforming Economic Approaches with Rights
On April 3, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted by consensus a resolution about “the realization in all countries of economic, social and cultural rights”. This year’s text focuses on the importance of development financing in fulfilling these rights. The resolution, which has been adopted regularly since 2007, addresses for the first time key issues […]
US: End Campaign of Draconian Campus Arrests
(Washington, DC) – The US government should end its sweeping effort to arbitrarily arrest and deport international students and scholars in retaliation for their political viewpoints and activism related to Palestine, Human Rights Watch said today. The administration’s statements and actions reveal that its justifications for the arrests and planned deportations are illegitimate and false. […]
Burkina Faso’s Relentless Crackdown on Dissent, Media
“I rose through the ranks!” joked Maixent Somé, an exiled Burkinabè activist and critic of the country’s military junta on X yesterday, after learning that his name appears on a list of wanted terrorists. On April 1, Burkina Faso’s security minister published a list of individuals who are “actively wanted for criminal association in […]
Karakalpak Lawyer Imprisoned in Uzbekistan Alleges Torture, Again
New allegations of ill-treatment and torture by Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, the wrongfully imprisoned Karakalpak blogger and lawyer, have emerged following a prison visit by his lawyer. In a March 24 statement, Tazhimuratov’s attorney, Sergey Mayorov, detailed “mental and physical torture,” including beatings by other inmates at the behest of prison officials and filthy conditions in Tazhimuratov’s cell. […]
Germany’s Social Democrats Should Defend EU Supply Chains Laws
Twelve years ago this April, the Rana Plaza factory building in Bangladesh collapsed, killing more than 1,100 garment workers and injuring more than 2,000 in one of the largest workplace disasters in modern history. The Rana Plaza tragedy fueled a global movement calling for mandatory human rights rules for businesses, which ultimately led the European Union […]
New Risks from Latest Scheme under Italy-Albania Immigration Deal
After building immigration facilities in Albania that now stand empty, the Italian government has decided to turn one of them into an offshore detention center. But this will only replicate the problems already seen in detention centers within Italy. The facility in Gjader, Albania, was built to accommodate and process adult male asylum seekers that […]
Hungary: Arrest, Don’t Welcome ICC Fugitive Netanyahu
(Washington, DC) – Hungary should deny entry to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or arrest him if he enters the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Netanyahu’s office announced that he is planning to travel to Hungary on April 2, 2025, following an invitation by Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Netanyahu is subject to an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal […]
Japan Makes High School Education Free – Again
Japan’s parliament, the Diet, voted this week to make public high school free for all children. Tuition fees had been abolished in 2010, but then reinstated in 2013. The new measure, approved in the budget, will expand equal opportunity in education, and should increase education access and certainty for children of parents with unstable incomes or […]