| | Earlier this month, Escola Mais, an educational Brazilian company, took steps to protect its students’ data privacy. The change comes after media attention to Human Rights Watch’s report, which found that the website owned by Escola Mais, along with seven other educational websites for Brazilian students, covertly surveilled children and harvested their personal data. Before we published the report, Escola Mais did not respond to our four requests for comment, but after media reported on our investigation, it contacted Human Rights Watch to ask how to protect students’ data privacy. The company subsequently removed from its website all student-facing links to its online learning platform. | |
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| Patricia Gossman is an associate director for the Asia division. Prior to joining HRW, Dr. Gossman was Director of the Afghanistan Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice on Afghanistan, and was the founder and director of the Afghanistan Justice Project.
She was Senior Researcher for South Asia at Human Rights Watch in the 1990s, covering not only Afghanistan, but India, Pakistan and Nepal. Dr. Gossman received her doctorate in South Asian Studies from the University of Chicago and is widely published on human rights issues in the region. |
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 | | | Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an extreme 6-week abortion ban, trampling human rights. The Florida House of Representatives passed the ban earlier this month after the state Senate approved it earlier this month. The new ban will not go into effect until 30 days after the Florida Supreme Court rules on a challenge to the state’s existing 15-week ban. | |
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 | | | Libya’s Government of National Unity (GNU) and other authorities are cracking down on nongovernmental domestic and foreign organizations, Human Rights Watch said last week. The GNU should withdraw onerous registration and administration requirements and ensure that civic groups are free to operate. | |
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 | | | Pakistan authorities are forcibly evicting thousands of farmers near the city of Lahore for a massive infrastructure project, Human Rights Watch said earlier this month. The authorities should enforce environmental protections and reform colonial-era laws that grant the government broad powers to acquire land for private as well as public use. | |
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 | | | We are excited to announce that the Human Rights Watch Film Festival will be back across the US May 31-June 11, bringing you 10 films that each tell a story of resistance, bravery, defiance and identity. You can join us in person in NYC cinemas to join our live screenings and hear from our storytellers and experts, or audiences across the US can join us virtually from June 5- June 11. Mark your calendars: The lineup is announced April 27. | |
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 | | | Impact update: The Christian Chinese asylum seekers detained in Thailand will be allowed to migrate to the United States.
On April 5, 2023, the Deputy National Police Chief of Thailand, the Immigration Bureau, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), and the US Embassy convened a high-level meeting in Bangkok, to discuss resettlement options for the Christian Chinese asylum seekers. Following the meeting, of the 63 detainees, 59 have boarded a flight to the United States. The remaining four families will migrate to the United States once their children are born. The Chinese government has not commented on or challenged this decision. | |
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Fighting Erupts in Sudan. It’s time for us to act. | Fighting broke out in Sudan last week. What started in Khartoum, the country’s capital city, has rapidly spread across Sudan. Please make an emergency gift today. | |
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