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  • Little Recourse for Domestic Violence in Kyrgyzstan

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    Women suffering domestic violence in Kyrgyzstan lack adequate protection and access to justice due to insufficient police and judicial response. The government is doing too little to provide shelter and other services for survivors of abuse. Kyrgyzstan’s government is currently reviewing a new domestic violence law, which could strengthen protections.

    Domestic violence is widespread in Kyrgyzstan, affecting nearly one-third of women and girls, ages 15-49. Show less
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    • Kenya: Climate Change Threatens Rights - Duration: 10 minutes.

      • 4,488 views
      Climate change and regional development projects are threatening the health and livelihood of indigenous peoples in the Turkana region of northwest Kenya.
    • DR Congo: Atrocity Victims Deserve Better Justice - Duration: 5 minutes, 9 seconds.

      • 2,376 views
      Minova Mass Rape Trial Shows Need for Urgent Reforms

      (Kinshasa, October 1, 2015) – The Democratic Republic of Congo government should urgently reform the country’s justice system to better prosecu...
    • Gay Men Targeted on Kenyan Coast - Duration: 3 minutes, 7 seconds.

      • 5,360 views
      (Nairobi, September 28, 2015) – Mobs in Kenya’s coastal region have repeatedly attacked people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, PEMA Kenya and Human Rights Watch said in a rep...
    • Rwanda: Unlawful Detention and Ill-treatment in Gikondo Transit Center - Duration: 3 minutes, 49 seconds.

      • 3,177 views
      (Nairobi, September 24, 2015) – The Rwandan authorities are arbitrarily arresting and unlawfully holding some of the country’s most vulnerable people in an unofficial detention center, Human Rights...
    • Gambians Flee Torture, Repression - Duration: 5 minutes, 45 seconds.

      • 10,046 views
      (Washington, DC, September 17, 2015) – Gambia’s government commits serious human rights violations against perceived critics and political opponents, perpetuating a climate of fear and repression, ...
    • Sudan: Special Force Rampages in Darfur - Duration: 2 minutes, 57 seconds.

      • 5,605 views
      (Nairobi, September 2, 2015) – A Sudanese government special force has gone on two sprees of killings and mass rape of civilians in dozens of Darfur villages and towns since October 2014, Human Rig...
    • Bosco Ntaganda on Trial for War Crimes - Duration: 2 minutes, 47 seconds.

      • 2,098 views
      (The Hague, August 27, 2015) – The trial of the military commander Bosco Ntaganda for grave crimes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is scheduled to begin on September 2, 2015, at the Interna...
    • South Africa: Children with Disabilities Denied Education - Duration: 4 minutes, 23 seconds.

      • 2,408 views
    • DRC: Ethnic Militias Attack Civilians in Katanga - Duration: 4 minutes, 11 seconds.

      • 1,796 views
      (Kinshasa, August 11, 2015) – The widespread killing and displacement of civilians by ethnic militia in northern Katanga, in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, shows the urgent need for the...
    • Victims Gather for Historic War Crimes Trial - Duration: 3 minutes, 23 seconds.

      • 2,043 views
      The trial of Chad’s former dictator Hissène Habré is a victory for the victims of his government. The trial will begin on July 20, 2015, almost 25 years after he was overthrown.
    • DR Congo: Arrest FDLR Leader Wanted by ICC - Duration: 2 minutes, 31 seconds.

      • 1,769 views
      (Goma, July 13, 2015) – The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and United Nations peacekeepers should urgently take steps to arrest and transfer Sylvestre Mudacumura, military commander...
    • Police abuses exposed during Burundi protests - Duration: 2 minutes, 38 seconds.

      • 7,185 views
      Burundian police have used excessive force against people protesting President Pierre Nkurunziza’s election bid for a third term. Police have shot at crowds indiscriminately and severely beaten dem...
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    • Brasil: Onde os Presos Dão as Cartas - Duration: 5 minutes, 25 seconds.

      • 1,828 views
      Pernambuco tem as prisões mais superlotadas do Brasil

      (São Paulo, 20 de outubro de 2015) – O estado de Pernambuco transferiu o controle de facto de suas prisões superlotadas a alguns presos escolh...
    • Brazil: Where Inmates Run the Show - Duration: 5 minutes, 25 seconds.

      • 90,679 views
      Among Brazil’s Overpacked Prisons, Pernambuco Tops the List
    • Dominican Citizens at Risk of Expulsion to Haiti - Duration: 4 minutes, 5 seconds.

      • 7,863 views
      In 2013, the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal retroactively removed citizenship from tens of thousands of Dominicans. Most of them are of Haitian descent – a historically marginalized community. T...
    • Colombia: Killings and Disappearances Continue in Buenaventura - Duration: 5 minutes, 8 seconds.

      • 4,307 views
      (Buenaventura, March 4, 2015) Paramilitary successor groups are abducting, “disappearing,” and dismembering residents of the mostly Afro-Colombian port of Buenaventura, despite government measures ...
    • Needless Suffering in Mexico - Duration: 5 minutes, 14 seconds.

      • 5,225 views
      (Mexico Cite, October 24, 2014) Tens of thousands of patients with terminal illnesses in Mexico suffer unnecessarily from severe pain and other symptoms because they cannot access adequate end-of-l...
    • Unchecked Homophobic Violence in Jamaica - Duration: 4 minutes, 33 seconds.

      • 101,430 views
      (Kingston, October 21, 2014) LGBT Jamaicans are vulnerable to both physical and sexual violence and many live in constant fear. They are taunted, threatened, fired from their jobs, thrown out of th...
    • TORN APART: Mike Wilson - Duration: 2 minutes, 31 seconds.

      • 2,331 views
      TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform

      Mike Wilson, a volunteer with the Tucson, Arizona-based Humane Borders, places containers of water in the desert in the hope of preventing more migra...
    • TORN APART: Robin Reineke - Duration: 4 minutes, 21 seconds.

      • 3,954 views
      TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform

      Robin Reineke, director of the Colibrí Center for Human Rights, holds the personal effects of unidentified border crossers. Such personal effects are...
    • TORN APART: Angie and Peter Kim - Duration: 2 minutes, 32 seconds.

      • 1,516 views
      TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform

      Angie and Peter Kim came to the United States from South Korea with their parents when they were 9 and 7 years old respectively. According to them, t...
    • TORN APART: Fermina Lopez Cash - Duration: 2 minutes, 49 seconds.

      • 1,604 views
      TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform

      Fermina Lopez Cash, a 47-year-old woman from Guatemala, sits in her home with a photo of her 13-year-old son, Omar, who died in July 2010 in the Ariz...
    • TORN APART: Marta Garcia - Duration: 2 minutes, 11 seconds.

      • 854 views
      TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform

      Marta Garcia left Mexico for the United States more than 20 years ago, settling in California with her husband and her three children, all US citizen...
    • TORN APART: Maria Puga - Duration: 115 seconds.

      • 1,239 views
      TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform

      In 2010, border guards beat and shocked Anastasio Hernandez Rojas with a stun gun at the San Ysidro port of entry near San Diego, California. He died...
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    • Kenya: Climate Change Threatens Rights - Duration: 10 minutes.

      • 4,488 views
      Climate change and regional development projects are threatening the health and livelihood of indigenous peoples in the Turkana region of northwest Kenya.
    • Armenia: Cancer Patients Suffer Without Morphine - Duration: 4 minutes, 58 seconds.

      • 2,258 views
      Thousands of patients with advanced cancer in Armenia suffer from avoidable, severe pain every year because they cannot get adequate pain medications. While effective, safe, and inexpensive pain me...
    • Thailand: Toxic Water, Tainted Justice - Duration: 12 minutes.

      • 6,753 views
      (Bangkok, December 15, 2014) The Thai government has failed to clean up toxic lead in a stream in western Thailand, threatening hundreds of families with serious and irreversible health problems. T...
    • Needless Suffering in Mexico - Duration: 5 minutes, 14 seconds.

      • 5,225 views
      (Mexico Cite, October 24, 2014) Tens of thousands of patients with terminal illnesses in Mexico suffer unnecessarily from severe pain and other symptoms because they cannot access adequate end-of-l...
    • INVESTIGATE EXPOSE CHANGE - Duration: 5 minutes, 11 seconds.

      • 1,005 views
      Featuring a range of Human Rights Watch's work from 2013/2014
    • Zambia: People with Disabilities Left Behind in HIV Response - Duration: 5 minutes, 54 seconds.

      • 1,580 views
      (Lusaka, July 15, 2014) The nearly two million people with disabilities in Zambia face significant barriers to HIV prevention, testing, and treatment. While the Zambian government has made signific...
    • Kenya: Factory Poisons Community - Duration: 6 minutes, 30 seconds.

      • 6,494 views
      (Nairobi, June 24, 2014) Thousands of people in a poor urban district outside Mombasa face serious health consequences from toxic lead from a battery recycling plant. The crisis is the result of th...
    • Dirty Needles Spike AIDS Epidemic in New Orleans - Duration: 4 minutes, 33 seconds.

      • 4,487 views
      (New York, December 10, 2013) – Louisiana state laws and practices that prohibit access to sterile syringes and criminalize sex work contribute to an uncontrolled HIV epidemic and an extremely high...
    • Cambodia: Drug Centers Detain, Abuse 'Undesirables' - Duration: 4 minutes, 9 seconds.

      • 16,985 views
      (Bangkok, December 9, 2013) -- Cambodian authorities unlawfully detain hundreds of drug users and others deemed "undesirable" in centers where they face torture, sexual violence, and forced labor, ...
    • Zimbabwe: Water and Sanitation Crisis - Duration: 4 minutes, 57 seconds.

      • 7,007 views
      (Harare, November 19, 2013) -- The water and sanitation crisis in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, places millions of residents at risk of waterborne disease. Five years after cholera killed over 4,000 ...
    • Senegal: Cancer Patients Suffer Needlessly - Duration: 4 minutes, 43 seconds.

      • 2,839 views
      (Dakar, October 24, 2013) -- Tens of thousands of patients in Senegal suffer from excruciating pain every year without relief, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Unnecessarily rest...
    • Groundbreaking Treaty on Toxic Mercury - Duration: 4 minutes, 16 seconds.

      • 3,256 views
      (Kumamoto, Japan, October 7) -- Governments around the world should immediately sign the new, groundbreaking Minamata Convention on Mercury. Officials around the world will meet in Kumamoto, Japan ...
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    • Gay Men Targeted on Kenyan Coast - Duration: 3 minutes, 7 seconds.

      • 5,360 views
      (Nairobi, September 28, 2015) – Mobs in Kenya’s coastal region have repeatedly attacked people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, PEMA Kenya and Human Rights Watch said in a rep...
    • Russian Police Ignore Anti-Gay Attacks - Duration: 2 minutes, 56 seconds.

      • 29,507 views
      (Moscow - December 15, 2014 ) – Russian authorities have failed in their obligation to prevent and prosecute homophobic violence. Growing numbers of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) p...
    • Unchecked Homophobic Violence in Jamaica - Duration: 4 minutes, 33 seconds.

      • 101,430 views
      (Kingston, October 21, 2014) LGBT Jamaicans are vulnerable to both physical and sexual violence and many live in constant fear. They are taunted, threatened, fired from their jobs, thrown out of th...
    • Russia: Gay Men Beaten on Camera - Duration: 4 minutes, 26 seconds.

      • 4,436,039 views
      (Moscow, February 4, 2014) -- The Russian authorities need to address a deteriorating situation of widespread and concerted abuse against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and ac...
    • Kyrgyzstan: Police Torture Gay Men - Duration: 3 minutes, 52 seconds.

      • 78,254 views
      (Bishkek, January 29, 2014) -- Police in Kyrgyzstan have extorted, threatened, arbitrarily detained, beaten and sexually abused gay and bisexual men. Although consensual sex between men was decrimi...
    • Zanele Muholi, Visual Activist - Duration: 11 minutes.

      • 24,165 views
      South Africa: Video Marks Campaign Against Gender Violence
      Documents Award-Winning Photographer's Work

      (Johannesburg, November 25, 2013) -- Human Rights Watch today issued a video showcasing the w...
    • South Africa: Archbishop Condemns Anti-LGBT Violence - Duration: 3 minutes.

      • 25,322 views
      (Banjul, October 21, 2013) Southern Africa's Anglican archbishop calls for an end to violence and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
      "Respect the gift of differe...
    • Tanzania: Police Abuse, Torture, Impede HIV Services - Duration: 4 minutes, 44 seconds.

      • 18,660 views
      (Dar es Salaam, June 18, 2013) -- Tanzanians who are most at risk of HIV face widespread police abuse and often can't get help when they are victims of crime, Human Rights Watch and the Wake Up and...
    • Cameroon: Abuses in 'Homosexuality' Prosecutions - Duration: 4 minutes, 36 seconds.

      • 11,724 views
      (Yaoundé -- Thursday, March 21, 2013) Cameroon prosecutes people for consensual same-sex conduct more aggressively than almost any country in the world, four human rights organizations said in a re...
    • Cameroon: Stop Threats to Lawyers - Duration: 2 minutes, 26 seconds.

      • 3,583 views
      (Nairobi, February 13, 2013) -- The government of Cameroon should immediately take action against a series of death threats made over the last four months to two lawyers who represent clients accus...
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    • Ukraine: Attacks on LGBT Protest - Duration: 2 minutes, 5 seconds.

      • 3,213 views
      (Berlin, December 18) -- The Ukrainian government should condemn homophobic speech and attacks on a peaceful protest in Kiev on December 8, 2012, Human Rights Watch said today. The rally by lesbian...
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    • US: Drug Deportations Tearing Families Apart - Duration: 5 minutes, 17 seconds.

      • 1,016 views
      From 2007 to 2012, over a quarter of a million non-citizens, including lawful permanent residents, were deported from the United States after a drug conviction. Many of these deportations involved ...
    • US: Military Sexual Assault Survivors Suffer Retaliation - Duration: 4 minutes, 46 seconds.

      • 3,736 views
      (Washington, DC - May 18, 2015) – US military service members who report sexual assault frequently experience retaliation that goes unpunished, Human Rights Watch said. https://www.hrw.org/news/201...
    • US: Mentally Ill Prisoners Face Abuse - Duration: 5 minutes, 36 seconds.

      • 54,717 views
      Jail and prison staff throughout the United States have used unnecessary, excessive, and even malicious force against prisoners with mental disabilities. Correctional staff have deluged prisoners w...
    • Kenneth Roth on the Senate CIA Torture Report - Duration: 3 minutes, 56 seconds.

      • 16,067 views
      (December 9, 2014) “The Senate report summary should forever put to rest CIA denials that it engaged in torture, which is criminal and can never be justified,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director...
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    • TORN APART: Mike Wilson - Duration: 2 minutes, 31 seconds.

      • 2,331 views
      TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform

      Mike Wilson, a volunteer with the Tucson, Arizona-based Humane Borders, places containers of water in the desert in the hope of preventing more migra...
    • TORN APART: Robin Reineke - Duration: 4 minutes, 21 seconds.

      • 3,954 views
      TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform

      Robin Reineke, director of the Colibrí Center for Human Rights, holds the personal effects of unidentified border crossers. Such personal effects are...
    • TORN APART: Angie and Peter Kim - Duration: 2 minutes, 32 seconds.

      • 1,516 views
      TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform

      Angie and Peter Kim came to the United States from South Korea with their parents when they were 9 and 7 years old respectively. According to them, t...
    • TORN APART: Fermina Lopez Cash - Duration: 2 minutes, 49 seconds.

      • 1,604 views
      TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform

      Fermina Lopez Cash, a 47-year-old woman from Guatemala, sits in her home with a photo of her 13-year-old son, Omar, who died in July 2010 in the Ariz...
    • TORN APART: Marta Garcia - Duration: 2 minutes, 11 seconds.

      • 854 views
      TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform

      Marta Garcia left Mexico for the United States more than 20 years ago, settling in California with her husband and her three children, all US citizen...
    • TORN APART: Maria Puga - Duration: 115 seconds.

      • 1,239 views
      TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform

      In 2010, border guards beat and shocked Anastasio Hernandez Rojas with a stun gun at the San Ysidro port of entry near San Diego, California. He died...
    • TORN APART: Sister Alma - Duration: 2 minutes, 4 seconds.

      • 1,223 views
      TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform

      Alma D. Isais Aguilar, a Catholic nun, works with the Kino Border Initiative, a group that provides food and shelter to migrants in the border town o...
    • TORN APART: Alina Diaz - Duration: 2 minutes, 39 seconds.

      • 1,378 views
      TORN APART: Families and US Immigration Reform

      Alina Diaz, a farmworker advocate, with Lidia Franco, Gisela Castillo and Marilu Nava-Cervantes, members of the Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, a nat...
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