How are laws and policies used to limit freedom of assembly, speech, and civil society? Ahead of the upcoming US midterm elections, we discuss SLAPP litigation and how court manipulation is used to try to chill civil society activity in the United States and South Africa — with Amanda Klasing, Leanne Govindsamy, and Krystal

Power of the Streets Episode 6: How do you prove that the home you fled was unsafe, if you could never report the violence you faced there? Thomars Shamuyarira is a Zimbabwean migrant rights activist living in South Africa. He speaks on South Africa’s restrictive asylum process and the experiences of LGBT people from

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South African authorities are compromising the safety and wellbeing of women and obstructing efforts to end the HIV pandemic by treating sex work as a crime, Human Rights Watch and the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) said in a report released today.

Community activists in mining areas face harassment, intimidation, and violence, the Centre for Environmental Rights, groundWork, Earthjustice, and Human Rights Watch said in a joint report released today. The attacks and harassment have created an atmosphere of fear for community members who mobilize to raise concerns about damage to their livelihoods from the serious environmental and health risks of mining and coal-fired power plants.

Leila Swan's statement for Human Rights Watch at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on September 22, 2017.

An estimated half-a-million children with disabilities have been shut out of South Africa’s education system.