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Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights’ thematic report on “Welfare and Control: The Paternalism of Support,” ...

This story is part of a series on gentrification, which appears online and in the February 2015 print issue. Jodi Duron, while in her first year as the superintendent of a central Texas school ...

We are at a critical juncture today in the fight against poverty. Despite decades of hard-won development progress, a world free of poverty remains out of sight. Ten years ago, the outlook appeared ...

Nancy Economou, has an unusual yet highly effective approach to combatting human trafficking. Her charity, Watts of Love, uses solar-powered lights to create economic empowerment. Increased economic ...

In the wake of the killing of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man, by a Tulsa police officer in September 2016, Human Rights Watch conducted an investigation into everyday policing in Tulsa, ...

It is not uncontroversial to say that poverty is a form of injustice. That those living without their basic needs met are not being treated fairly within our rich and affluent, well-connected society.

Lisa Benjamin receives funding from the Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is a member of the UNFCCC Compliance Committee (Facilitative Branch) and the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights ...