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World Report 2020 is Human Rights Watch’s 30th annual review of human rights practices around the globe. The 652-page volume reviews human rights practices and trends in nearly 100 countries. We launched the report today at the United Nations in New York.
What happened before the launch:
On Sunday, Hong Kong authorities denied Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, entry to Hong Kong, where he had planned to launch our World Report 2020.
“I had hoped to spotlight Beijing’s deepening assault on international efforts to uphold human rights,” Roth said. “The refusal to let me enter Hong Kong vividly illustrates the problem.”
A major trend:
The big news of the past year is the growing opposition to authoritarian trends around the world.
This pushback can be seen in efforts to prevent a bloodbath in Syria, bring justice to Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, and stop the Saudi-led bombing and blockading of Yemenicivilians, as well as convince Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila to accept constitutional term limits.
“China’s government sees human rights as an existential threat. Its reaction could pose an existential threat to the rights of people worldwide,” writes Executive Director Kenneth Roth in his World Report 2020 essay.
There’s a growing trend of national legislatures requiring companies to live up to their responsibilities to workers, communities, and the environment.
For 2020 and beyond, we have a new standard to which we can hold governments and employers around the world accountable for sexual harassment and violence against workers.
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