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"Chop Fine" The Human Rights Impact of Local Government Corruption and Mismanagement in Rivers State, Nigeria This 107-page report details the misuse of public funds by local officials in the geographic heart of Nigeria’s booming oil industry, and the harmful effects on primary education and basic health care. The report is based on scores of interviews in Rivers state with government and donor agency officials, civil servants, health care workers, teachers, civil society groups and local residents. Human Rights Watch also analyzes state and local government budgets. HRW Index No.: A1902 January 31, 2007 Report Download PDF, 109 KB, 921 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release "They Came Here to Kill Us" Militia Attacks and Ethnic Targeting of Civilians in Eastern Chad This 70-page report documents a drastic deterioration in the human rights situation in eastern Chad, where more than 300 civilians were killed and at least 17,000 people displaced in militia violence in November 2006 alone. In most instances, civilians were targeted on the basis of ethnic identity. The Chadian government, preoccupied with quashing rebel insurgents, has not only failed to protect civilians, but is contributing to the cycle of violence by supporting certain abusive armed groups. HRW Index No.: A1901 January 9, 2007 Report Also available in 
Download PDF, 442 KB, 72 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Custody and Control Conditions of Confinement in New York’s Juvenile Prisons for Girls This 136-page report provides an in-depth look at the abuses and neglect suffered by girls confined in two remote New York State juvenile facilities known as Tryon and Lansing. The facilities are operated by the New York Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) and are the only two higher-security facilities in New York State holding girls. HRW Index No.: G1804 September 25, 2006 Report Download PDF, 1400 KB, 136 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release A High Price to Pay Detention of Poor Patients in Burundian Hospitals This 75-page report documents how Burundian hospitals in 2005 detained hundreds of indigent patients, sometimes in inhumane conditions. Many of those detained were women giving birth who unexpectedly needed caesarian deliveries. In some cases, hospital authorities refused further medical care to those who could not pay their bills and forced them to vacate their beds for wealthier incoming patients. HRW Index No.: A1808 September 7, 2006 Report Also available in
Download PDF, 1830 KB, 77 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release "Life Doesn't Wait" Romania’s Failure to Protect and Support Children and Youth Living with HIV More than 7,200 Romanian children and youth aged 15 to 19 are living with HIV. The vast majority were infected with HIV between 1986 and 1991 as a direct result of government policies that exposed them to contaminated needles and “microtransfusions” in which small children were injected with unscreened blood in the mistaken belief that this would improve their immunological status. This 104-page report documents violations of the rights of these children and youth to education, health, privacy and information. It also shows how the authorities fail to protect these children and youth from discrimination, abuse and neglect. HRW Index No.: D1806 August 2, 2006 Report Also available in 
Download PDF, 679 KB, 107 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release No Bright Future Government Failures, Human Rights Abuses and Squandered Progress in the Fight against AIDS in Zimbabwe This 72-page report documents how the abusive policies and practices of the Zimbabwean government are fueling the HIV/AIDS epidemic, increasing vulnerability to infection, and obstructing access to treatment. HRW Index No.: A1805 July 28, 2006 Report Download PDF, 413 KB, 72 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Mexico: The Second Assault Obstructing Access to Legal Abortion after Rape in Mexico This 92-page report details the disrespect, suspicion and apathy that pregnant rape victims encounter from public prosecutors and health workers. The report also exposes continuing and pervasive impunity for rape and other forms of sexual violence in states throughout Mexico. HRW Index No.: B1801 March 7, 2006 Report Also available in 
Download PDF, 486 KB, 94 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Rhetoric and Risk Human Rights Abuses Impeding Ukraine’s Fight Against HIV/AIDS This report documents how draconian drug laws and routine police abuse of injection drug users – the population hardest hit by HIV/AIDS in Ukraine – keep them from receiving lifesaving HIV information and services that the government has pledged to provide. HRW Index No.: D1802 March 2, 2006 Report Also available in 
Download PDF, 496 KB, 86 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Zimbabwe: Evicted and Forsaken Internally displaced persons in the aftermath of Operation Murambatsvina This 61-page report documents the government’s denial of assistance and protection to people internally displaced as a result of Operation Murambatsvina (“Clear the Filth”), which began in May. The report also examines the role of international agencies, and in particular the United Nations country team, in addressing the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe. HRW Index No.: A1716 December 1, 2005 Report Download PDF, 1150 KB, 63 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Colombia: Displaced and Discarded The Plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Bogotá and Cartagena The families interviewed for this 60-page report described fleeing their homes after receiving threats, being subjected to torture, or seeing relatives or neighbors killed. When they flee their communities and seek shelter elsewhere, they may wait weeks or even months for emergency aid, are often denied medical care, and may be unable to enroll their children in schools. HRW Index No.: B1704 October 14, 2005 Report Also available in
Download PDF, 573 KB, 62 pgs Purchase online Letting Them Fail Government Neglect and the Right to Education for Children Affected by AIDS This 55-page report is based on firsthand testimony from dozens of children in three countries hard-hit by HIV/AIDS: South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda. It documents how governments fail children affected by AIDS when they leave school or attempt to return. Churches and community-based organizations provide critical support to these children, but these groups frequently operate with little government support or recognition. HRW Index No.: A1713 October 11, 2005 Report Download PDF, 372 KB, 59 pgs Purchase online Positively Abandoned Stigma and Discrimination against HIV-Positive Mothers and their Children in Russia As Russia’s HIV/AIDS epidemic spreads, thousands of HIV-positive mothers and their children face pervasive discrimination and abuse. This 41-page report focuses on the discrimination that these women face, as do their children, many of whom are abandoned to the care of the state. Today, as Russia’s escalating HIV/AIDS epidemic reaches beyond high-risk groups to the general population, a growing number of expectant mothers and infants have been placed in the path of the virus. Since the Federal AIDS Center in Moscow first started recording these statistics annually in 1997, nearly 10,000 HIV-positive women have given birth, the vast majority of whom had their children since 2002. HRW Index No.: D1704 July 16, 2005 Report Also available in
Download PDF, 310 KB, 43 pgs Purchase online Decisions Denied Women’s Access to Contraceptives and Abortion in Argentina Decisions about contraception and abortion are difficult, deeply personal, and sometimes wrenching. In Argentina, women are routinely prevented from making such decisions. Despite important advances in the area of women’s political participation and economic independence, doctors and spouses continue to exercise control over women’s reproductive health through laws and policies that subject female decision-making to arbitrary extraneous interference. HRW Index No.: B1701 June 15, 2005 Report Also available in
Download PDF, 418 KB, 87 pgs Purchase online Restrictions on AIDS Activists in China This 57-page report based on on-the-ground interviews with Chinese AIDS activists, gay rights activists, activists working with drug users, and website managers shows that while senior officials have said they want to encourage China's emerging civil society, many AIDS activists face state harassment and bureaucratic restrictions. First-hand accounts provided to Human Rights Watch reveal that activists conducting AIDS information workshops or working with those at high risk of HIV have been harassed or detained, and that pornography laws are used to censor websites providing AIDS information to gay men and lesbians under pornography laws. HRW Index No.: C1705 June 15, 2005 Report Download PDF, 432 KB, 59 pgs Purchase online After the Deluge India's Reconstruction Following the 2004 Tsunami This 47-page report examines the Indian government’s response to the tsunami and documents several systemic and potentially enduring failures. Human Rights Watch applauded the Indian government’s overall response to the tsunami, but found that government recovery efforts did not adequately take into account the needs of different vulnerable segments of the affected population, particularly women, children, the disabled, Dalits (so-called untouchables) and tribal groups. HRW Index No.: C1703 May 26, 2005 Report Download PDF, 330 KB, 49 pgs Purchase online The Less They Know, the Better Abstinence-Only HIV/AIDS Programs in Uganda This 80-page report documents the recent removal of critical HIV/AIDS information from primary school curricula, including information about condoms, safer sex and the risks of HIV in marriage. Draft secondary-school materials state falsely that latex condoms have microscopic pores that can be permeated by HIV, and that pre-marital sex is a form of “deviance.” HIV/AIDS rallies sponsored by the U.S. government spread similar falsehoods. HRW Index No.: A1704 March 30, 2005 Report Download PDF, 466 KB, 81 pgs Purchase online Coming Home Return and Reintegration in Angola This 39-page report documents how most families have returned to locations that still lack minimal social services, such as health care and education, let alone employment. Elderly and disabled persons, widows and female-headed households experience the worst shortfalls in government assistance, particularly in rural areas. HRW Index No.: A1702 March 17, 2005 Report Download PDF, 310 KB, 40 pgs Purchase online Seeking Justice The Prosecution of Sexual Violence in the Congo War This 52-page report documents how the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has taken insufficient steps to prosecute those responsible for wartime rape. Human Rights Watch calls on the Congolese government and international donors, including the European Union, to take urgent steps to reform Congo’s justice system. HRW Index No.: A1701 March 7, 2005 Report Also available in
Download PDF, 362 KB, 55 pgs Purchase online Blood, Sweat, and Fear Workers’ Rights in U.S. Meat and Poultry Plants Workers in the U.S. meat and poultry industry endure unnecessarily hazardous work conditions, and the companies employing them often use illegal tactics to crush union organizing efforts. In meat and poultry plants across the United States, Human Rights Watch found that many workers face a real danger of losing a limb, or even their lives, in unsafe work conditions. HRW Index No.: 1-56432-330-7 January 25, 2005 Report Download PDF, 825 KB, 185 pgs Purchase online “Real Dungeons” Juvenile Detention in the State of Rio de Janeiro The 70-page report documents that youths in Rio de Janeiro’s detention centers are often beaten and verbally abused by guards. Most complaints of ill-treatment are never investigated by the state’s Department of Socio-Economic Action (Departamento Geral de Ações Sócio-Educativas, or DEGASE), the authority responsible for juvenile detention facilities. Administrative sanctions against guards are rare and usually take the form of transfers to other detention centers; no guard has ever faced criminal charges for abusive conduct. December 7, 2004 Report Also available in 
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