In the present report, prepared in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 33/2, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights provides an overview of available mechanisms concerned with ensuring the safety of journalists, including existing international and regional prevention,
Hands Off Pants On; Sexual Harassment in the Chicago's Hospitality Industry
With a focus specifically on the leisure and hospitality industry, this report highlights the high levels of sexual harassment women of color experience. A survey of over two-thousand female employees, results show that women in the food and hospitality service
Health Worker Sector Focus
Human Rights Watch | Hidden Away: Abuses against Migrant Domestic Workers in the UK
Working and often living in other people’s homes, migrant domestic workers are among the most vulnerable workers, at risk of abuse and exploitation that often happens behind closed doors, making it difficult for them to seek help, and for people
Hidden in the Home Abuse of Domestic Workers with Special Visas in the United States
Domestic Worker is a sector that is plagued with exploitation due to the environment of a private home and the migrant status many domestic workers have.
High Commissioner’s report to the Human Rights Council on the safety of journalists
In the present report, prepared in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 33/2, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights provides an overview of available mechanisms concerned with ensuring the safety of journalists, including existing international and regional prevention,
How to Respond to Employees Facing Domestic Violence: A Workplace Handbook for Managers, Supervisors, and Co-Workers
The Cambridge Public Health Department has released a workplace handbook for employers and supervisors to learn how to best respond and address domestic violence and intimate partner violence in the workplace.
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,