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February 5, 2021 Dispatches

US Correcting Course on Refugees, Climate Migrants

Biden Administration Orders Would Replace Prejudice with Principles

In this file photo, people protest the Trump administration's refugee policies outside the White House in Washington, January 27, 2018.

February 2, 2021 Dispatches

US Takes Steps to Reverse Family Separations

More is Needed to Address Trauma Caused by Trump Policies

Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, right, watch as President Joe Biden signs an executive order on immigration in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, February 2, 2021.

February 1, 2021 Statement

Human Rights Watch Submission to the Special Rapporteur’s Report on Pushback Practices and Their Impact on the Human Rights of Migrants

January 28, 2021 Letter

70 Immigrants' Rights Organization Write to President Biden and Congressional Hispanic Caucus

An asylum seeking family from Guatemala stands on the Paso del Norte international bridge. After border agents turned the family away at the port of entry, the family swam across the Rio Grande.

January 27, 2021 News Release

US: Newly Released Files Show Fast-Track to Deportation

Reveal How Asylum Seekers at Border Were Short-Changed on Rights

Migrants seeking asylum wait in line with their case paperwork to meet with an attorney on Oct. 5, 2019, during a weekly trip by volunteers, lawyers, paralegals and interpreters to the migrant campsite outside El Puente Nuevo in Matamoros, Mexico.

January 21, 2021 News Release

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Migrants Left in the Cold

Long-Term Housing, Care Urgently Needed

Migrants warm their hands above a fire at the Lipa camp, outside Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Monday, January 11, 2021. The camp was closed on December 23, 2020 and destroyed in a fire the same day.

January 20, 2021 Dispatches

On Day One, US President Biden Reverses Odious Travel Ban

Important Step Toward a Rights-Respecting Immigration System

President Joe Biden signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, January 20, 2021.

January 20, 2021 Interview

Interview: Hard-Won Victories for Refugees in Greece

How Ten Years of Advocacy and Incremental Changes Add Up

A woman sits with her children in Victoria Square in Athens, Greece, awaiting transfer after being evicted from their place of residence, July 20, 2020.

January 19, 2021 News Release

Lebanon: Dire Conditions for Syrian Refugees in Border Town

Two Winters Since Homes Dismantled, Many Refugees in Arsal Unprotected

Children play next to shelters in a Syrian refugee camp in Arsal, Lebanon. Around 15,000 Syrian refugees in Arsal are entering their second winter without adequate roofs and insulation since the 2019 directive ordered them to dismantle concrete shelters and rebuild the top portion with tarp and wood. November 2020.

January 14, 2021 Letter

HRW Letter to the Biden Transition Team

Regarding Ensuring Humanitarian Border Reception

January 13, 2021 News Release

Lebanon: Sharp Decline in Human Rights

Urgently Address Economic, Political Crises

Lebanese people release balloons bearing the names of the victims of the 4 August Beirut seaport blast to mark the two-month anniversary of the explosion that killed 200 people and injured more than 6,500 others.

January 7, 2021 Dispatches

Rohingya Arrested in Myanmar Just for Traveling

Oppressed Ethnic Group Denied Right to Freedom of Movement

Police officers wearing facemasks stand on a street in Yangon, Myanmar, November 3, 2020.

January 6, 2021 News Release

US: ‘Remain in Mexico’ Harms Children, Families

Two Years into Program, Thousands Face Violence, Trauma, Uncertainty

A Honduran migrant mother and child wait in line for a dinner provided by volunteers at a makeshift encampment occupied by asylum seekers sent back to Mexico from the US in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, October 27, 2019.

December 22, 2020 Report

Qatar: Wage Abuse Action Shortchanges Workers

Workers Still Owed Wages for Months After Informing Government of Abuse

Former and current employees of Imperial Trading and Construction Company (ITCC) protest months of delayed and unpaid wages outside the company's headquarters.