For this report, Human Rights Watch investigated access to health care, including HIV prevention and treatment, for women of trans experience in south Florida. We administered 125 survey questionnaires among trans women in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, two counties with
HRW | “I Could Kill You and No One Would Stop Me” Weak State Response to Domestic Violence in Russia
In 2018, Human Rights Watch released a comprehensive report on the lack of legal support and justice for domestic violence victims and survivors, in many examples describing women who could not work or no longer return to work due to
HRW | ‘Violence with Every Step’: Weak State Response to Domestic Violence in Tajikistan
“Aren’t you yourself to blame?” a prosecutor said to Zebo, when she tried to report her husband’s abuse. “Everything will work out fine. Go home.” From 2015 to 2019, the HRW conducted research and interviews on domestic violence in Tajikistan
Human Rights Watch | Combating Sexual Harassment in the Garment Industry
Eleven women garment workers from a factory in southern India sent a hand-written letter to a local union in late 2016. They wrote: “The plight of women workers … we don’t have anyone who would listen to us…. We have
Human Rights Watch | Follow the Thread: The Need for Supply Chain Transparency in the Garment and Footwear Industry
he garment and footwear industry stretches around the world. Clothes and shoes sold in stores in the US, Canada, Europe, and other parts of the world typically travel across the globe. They are cut and stitched in factories in Asia,
Human Rights Watch: Gender-Based Violence in the Workplace
Human Rights Watch has produced an extensive library of meticulously researched reports on gender-based violence in the world of work from around the world.
Human Rights Watch | “Going to the Toilet When You Want”: Sanitation as a Human Right
This report provides a factual foundation for understanding the distinct nature of the right to sanitation and denigration of human dignity related to its violation by describing contexts in which women, men, and children struggle to realize their right to
Human Rights Watch | Living at Risk: Transgender Women, HIV, and Human Rights in South Florida
For this report, Human Rights Watch investigated access to health care, including HIV prevention and treatment, for women of trans experience in south Florida. We administered 125 survey questionnaires among trans women in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, two counties with
"I Already Bought You" Abuse and Exploitation of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in the United Arab Emirates
146,000 female migrant domestic workers are employed in the UAE, and although there are reputable households that treat domestic workers humanely, there is handful on the other side that have carried out an exploitive measures towards their domestic workers. HRW
'I know I cannot quit' Prevalence and Productivity Cost of Sexual Harassment to the Cambodia Garment Industry
This report shows the effects sexual harassment has in the garment industry, that holds 85% female employees while maintaining many others forms of inequalities within the work place. Findings showed that productivity costs are about 89 billion in regards to
I Know Politics: The Law and Violence against Women in Politics
This report thoroughly defines violence against women in politics in legal terms as well as the associated limitations to these definitions. Though there are cases of democratic nations facilitating law reform criminalizing political violence against women, what also needs to