Disasters and Displaced Populations
Intersex Children
Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child's review of the United Kingdom
88th pre-session
This submission focuses on access to education during the Covid-19 pandemic, protection of education from attack, child poverty, unaccompanied migrant and asylum-seeking children, weapons sales to the Saudi-led coalition, protecting intersex children from…
Coronavirus Shows England's Urgent Need for Social Care Reforms
Older People's Right to Health Requires Full Access to a Robust Support System
COVID-19 is spreading around the globe and is especially deadly for older people. The virus has an estimated fatality rate of under two percent, but reaches eight to 15 percent among older people, new analysis shows. Older people can…
Dispatches: Britain Backtracks on Justice for Yemen
The British government's concern for the safety and well-being of the Yemeni people – already extremely feeble – reached a new low this week. In Geneva, Britain failed to actively promote a Dutch resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council that…
Dispatches: UK Oversight Committee Blesses 'Bulk' Surveillance
A much-anticipated government report officially acknowledges what Edward Snowden revealed to the world many months ago: the UK has been intercepting communications en masse. But rather than condemn the widespread snooping, the report endorses the so-…
United Kingdom: Submission of Evidence for the Investigatory Powers Review
Human Rights Watch respectfully submits the following information to David Anderson QC for the Investigatory Powers Review. Firstly, we explain the need to reform UK legislation governing surveillance to bring it in line with the UK's human rights…
Dispatches: On Assange Anniversary, Press Freedom Held Hostage
Today Julian Assange, the Wikileaks publisher, begins his third year confined in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. He fled there, receiving political asylum, when Sweden sought his extradition to answer sexual assault allegations. Although both Assange…
Women's Health and FGM