Human Rights Watch - Issues and Campaigns

Issues and Campaigns

  • Abolition of capital punishment worldwide
  • Arms trafficking
  • Child labor
  • Child soldiers
  • Extrajudicial killings and abductions
  • Extraordinary rendition by the United States
  • Gay rights
  • Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity
  • Land mines
  • Legal proceedings against human rights abusers
  • Legalisation of abortion on demand
  • Rights of people with AIDS
  • Safety of civilians in war; opposes use of cluster bombs
  • Street children
  • Torture
  • Trafficking in women and girls
  • Women's rights
  • Police brutality

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