We'll tie you up and shoot you

By Neela Ghoshal

"This 47-page report is based on four months of field research in Bujumbura and four rural provinces. The report documents numerous incidents of violence, at least one fatal, carried out by and aga...

Closing doors

By Neela Ghoshal

"Burundi's 2010 election period was marked by repression of civil society, media, and opposition parties. After claiming that communal elections in May were fraudulent, opposition parties boycotted...

Turning pebbles

By Neela Ghoshal

Four years after the onset of Kenya's 2007-2008 post-election violence, the government has done little to ensure justice for victims. It has failed to ensure the prosecution of perpetrators in all...

Criminal Reprisals

By Neela Ghoshal, Human Rights Watch Organization Staff

Guilty by association

By Neela Ghoshal

"The 55-page report presents 10 case studies of arrests and prosecutions under article 347 bis of Cameroon's penal code, which punishes "sexual relations between persons of the same sex" with up to...

Audacity in Adversity

By Human Rights Watch Organization Staff, Arab Foundation For Freedoms And Equality Staff

If We Don t Get Services We Will Die

By Human Rights Watch Organization Staff

Every Day I Live in Fear

By Human Rights Watch Organization Staff

I Dont Want to Change Myself

By Neela Ghoshal, Human Rights Watch Organization Staff, Ryan Richard Thoreson, Thilaga Sulathireh, Kyle Knight

I m scared to be a woman

By Neela Ghosal

"This 73-page report documents government abuses against transgender people in Malaysia. In research in four Malaysian states and the federal territory of Kuala Lumpur, Human Rights Watch found tha...