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Human Rights Watch investigates human rights abuses linked to the economic activities of businesses, governments and key international institutions like the World Bank. We expose harmful practices by multinational corporations that can devastate vulnerable communities. We push tech companies to avoid complicity in government efforts to censor and persecute activists. We show how government failures and predatory business practices can combine to heap misery on the poor. We document the ways corruption in resource-rich countries can fuel abuse and cripple health and education systems. And we use our voice and our leverage to push for real change and help develop standards where they are lacking.
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Africa
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Turkmenistan: Denial, Inaction Worsen Food Crisis
Pandemic Compounds People’s Struggle for Affordable Food
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A Dirty Investment
European Development Banks’ Link to Abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Palm Oil Industry
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“When We’re Dead and Buried, Our Bones Will Keep Hurting”
Workers’ Rights Under Threat in US Meat and Poultry Plants
News
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US Needs to Address Economic Hardship, Rights Impacts of Covid-19
Census Bureau Data Underscores Vulnerability of People in Poverty
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Turkmenistan: Denial, Inaction Worsen Food Crisis
Pandemic Compounds People’s Struggle for Affordable Food
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Big Tech's Heavy Hand Around the Globe
Facebook and Google’s dominance of developing-world markets has had catastrophic effects. US regulators should take note.
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Global Gold Supply Chains Just Got Riskier
In the Covid-19 Pandemic, the Gold Sector Should Re-assess Human Rights Impacts
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German Economics Ministry Blocks Effective Supply Chains Law
Companies’ Respect for Rights at Particular Risk During Covid-19
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World Bank Group Failing at Remedies for Project Abuses
Independent Review Recommends Funding to Address Harms
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Tech Firms’ Counterterrorism Forum Threatens Rights
15 Rights Groups Call for Transparency, Safeguards
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